[mreid]

I like the look and the functionality. I worry more about my noggin cracking on the roll bar than about whiplash, although both are big concerns. When I had my accident in the coupe, it was a front end collision. I was wearing my harness, yet still hit the back of the kirkey seat after my head first snapped forward, then back. My wrists were sore where they gripped and twisted the steering wheel and the back of my head just slightly bruised where it hit the aluminum bead at the top of the kirkey seat. Obviously, a helmet would have prevented my head bruise, but who wears one on the street. The other concern was the roll cage. I used rollbar padding on all the bars as they are hidden under the roof of the coupe, but I think this is asthetically undesirable in my cobra. My point is that the rollbar is a hazard in any kind of accident and your head just inches from it. The pad needs to be far enough forward to protect against both whiplash and your head impacting the rollbar, solidly mounted so it doesn't move (no velcro), and look good. What you have meets the last, but not sure about the first two. Just my .02!