Pilot bird wrote:
rarerat wrote:
Yeah I know, they are there but I don't wear them because I cant bend my wrist enough to fully turn when I wear them. Chris has some really nice after market restraints on his Pilots, that I would like to add to mine, assuming my wife ever lets me ride it again. lol.. My hand flopping to the side was intentional, I was trying to hold myself up in the seat.. :-(
I never noticed you didn't wear wrist restraints until I watched your videos! You are one brave soul;)
I never wear wrist restraints fact is I removed them completely from my Pilot, every time I tried to wear them I ended up hurting my wrist, I even tried cutting them where they join the two together in efforts of gaining a little more freedom of movement, that helped a little but eventually I quit using them all together.
I have rolled my Pilot so many times I lot count never once did I ever feel I could stop or slow my Pilot from rolling by sticking my arms, hands outside the cage that's just plain stupid. I just put a death grip on the steering yoke and wait for the Pilot to stop then back on the gas if I am lucky enough to land on the wheels again.
That said YES I know the risk, I risk being knocked out during a flip and roll session then my arms flying outside the cage and being snapped like little twigs on a tree or possibly getting one or both my arms ripped off my body all together, IMO I will take the risk over being injured every time I try to drive aggressively with my wrist restraints installed.
No doubt the wrist restraints work well for you smaller guys with smaller arms, smaller wrist but wrist restraints never worked for me, I even bought a set of the wrist restraints they use for professional racers and gave them a try I rather sell my Pilot than go through the procedure required to make them work.
Its like the little guys who ride a Pilot with no helmet I think its scary, they are too short to make their head contact the cage, but I am tall enough where I bang my helmet on the cage 50 times or more each time I drive my Pilot, my Pilot has so many little red marks on it I am surprised their is still paint on my roll cage lol
I have no clue why rarerat does not wear his wrist restraints but if he can I would advise he and others wear them for their own protection like I mention if you get knocked out and lost control of your arms they will save you.