"Haimatox" (haimatox)
03/12/2015 at 12:29 • Filed to: None
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"Haimatox" (haimatox)
03/12/2015 at 12:29 • Filed to: None | 4
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First, congratulations on your second place finish in 2WD at 100AW!
Anyways, it appears that the Safe Drives website is either down, or no longer exists. I assume that Safe Drives was the only distributor of the Simpson Hybrid HANS restraint that had a rent-to-own system.
The Hybrid Sport, their cheapest restraint, costs $600. It's still a large quantity of cash. Is there any other store that has a rental program? The $500 could be a setback for a while.
Also, apparently there is/was a Lotus Exige rally car? I wholeheartily approve.
Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> Haimatox
03/12/2015 at 12:32 |
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I would be very interested in a rent to own HANS device program too.
Also, I am in love with that car. haha
Dusty Ventures
> Haimatox
03/12/2015 at 17:27 |
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rally.build does a rent-to-own on the HANS, but Safe Drives was the only site I knew that did a rent-to-own on the Simpson Hybrid, which is a shame because having used both I'm convinced the Hybrid is far superior in both comfort and safety.
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Dusty Ventures
> Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
03/12/2015 at 17:28 |
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Haimatox
> Dusty Ventures
03/12/2015 at 17:46 |
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Rats.
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Haimatox
> Dusty Ventures
03/12/2015 at 17:54 |
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I guess that'll set me back a while to save up for it...
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Dusty Ventures
> Haimatox
03/12/2015 at 18:03 |
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Sorry for the bad news. But while we're on the subject, a little extra advice. When you do buy the Hybrid be sure to get it with the FIA-approved tethers. The older-style tethers were only SFI approved, and as such could only be used in the States. With the FIA tethers you're good pretty much anywhere in the world.
Santiago of Escuderia Boricua
> Dusty Ventures
03/12/2015 at 23:03 |
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What's the difference between a HANS and the Simpson?
http://www.saferacer.com/hans-device-sp…
http://www.saferacer.com/simpson-hybrid…
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Dusty Ventures
> Santiago of Escuderia Boricua
03/12/2015 at 23:38 |
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The HANS sits on your shoulders and is held in place entirely by the belts. This means it is entirely reliant on the shoulder belts. In most forms of racing this is fine, so long as the belts are tightened down properly. However in desert racing, where hours of bouncing around can loosen the belts, and in cases where a person didn't have their belts properly tightened down, there have been occasions where the belt slipped off one side of the HANS. Suffice to say that's a bad thing.
The Hybrid on the other hand uses three points of mounting to hold itself in place. First, like the HANS, it uses the shoulder belts. But in addition it secures itself to your torso, using you as a latch point, and it attaches to the belts at the main buckle, a point where everything always stays exactly where it's supposed to be with zero movement.