Just got a Schroth 6 point harness
Never used... FIA approved (good up to 2009) AND streetlegal
(bought if from a GT3 RS owner)
€100

Can you explain to the uneducated why there are two straps for the bottom? To go around your three legs? Is it for boys only?!?!

Jen

good job..
and just the color I've been looking for (kidding)

congrats for you!

brant

Nice score.

Am I right that that is streetlegal Europe and not streetlegal US? Just wondered.

The 2 sub straps (jenny) help to allay fears that certain appendages don't get squished in the event of a collision. Some people find the single strap uncomfortable.

Scroth also make the Hans device which is pretty cool. Their website is very explicit about just how seriously they take safety... Very cool. I'll probably get something very similar for my car, just in case it falls off the jackstands while I'm sitting in it.

QUOTE (fiid @ Apr 11 2005, 12:01 PM)

The 2 sub straps (jenny) help to allay fears that certain appendages don't get squished in the event of a collision. Some people find the single strap uncomfortable.

Yup, even as I was tying, it was making more sense. Protect the family jewels!!

Jen

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 10:55 AM)

Can you explain to the uneducated why there are two straps for the bottom? To go around your three legs? Is it for boys only?!?! Jen

It's just like that swing that you can hang from your ceil.... um, nevermind.

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It's just like that swing that you can hang from your ceil.... um, nevermind

It's also a way to not have to cut a hole in your seat (assuming you don't have a race seat with a sub-strap hole already cut in it). You really don't want to run a sub strap around the front of the seat, it does Bad Things to the positioning of the belt buckle.

With a six-point harness, you effectively sit on the two sub straps so they go under your legs, then they come up in the middle and fasten to the belt.

--DD

OH, that's a relief. I thought maybe you ended up in another canal.

QUOTE (fiid @ Apr 11 2005, 08:01 PM)

Am I right that that is streetlegal Europe and not streetlegal US? Just wondered.

It's ECE approved (european street legal)
Not sure if that makes it streetlegal in the US
Regular racing harnesses are not streetlegal here in europe...

Those things go for about $40.00 over here. You got boned...

QUOTE (Jeroen @ Apr 11 2005, 12:01 PM)

QUOTE (fiid @ Apr 11 2005, 08:01 PM) Am I right that that is streetlegal Europe and not streetlegal US?  Just wondered. It's ECE approved (european street legal) Not sure if that makes it streetlegal in the US Regular racing harnesses are not streetlegal here in europe...

Dude, they make some cool stuff. I think it would be streetlegal in the US (atleast so says my source here )

Kinda OT, but I have met the vice president of Schroth (Bernrd? Walraff) and know his son, who is an exchange student at my high school. Both are really cool guys, though they keep trying to get me to buy a pair of their belts.

everyone missed my jackstand joke. Must have been too close to the truth :-)

QUOTE (fiid @ Apr 11 2005, 12:01 PM)

I'll probably get something very similar for my car, just in case it falls off the jackstands while I'm sitting in it.

Jen

What, you weren't serious when you made that statement???

--DD

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 03:25 PM)

QUOTE (fiid @ Apr 11 2005, 12:01 PM) I'll probably get something very similar for my car, just in case it falls off the jackstands while I'm sitting in it. Jen

Ok, now I am pissed. I make a perfectly good inappropriate (maybe a little sexist) remark and Jenny claps for the jack stand joke. What is this world coming too?

Geez!


/takes ball and goes home.

I didn't know how to respond to the swing comment. I know, what's the world coming to? Jenny's at a loss for words!

Jen

QUOTE (KaptKaos @ Apr 11 2005, 11:14 AM)

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 10:55 AM) Can you explain to the uneducated why there are two straps for the bottom? To go around your three legs? Is it for boys only?!?! Jen It's just like that swing that you can hang from your ceil.... um, nevermind.

Umm does your swing have the full 360 swivel? Just curious umm not that I have one or anything and it's no purple and hidden in my closet.

My best,
Mike D.

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 10:55 AM)

Can you explain to the uneducated why there are two straps for the bottom? To go around your three legs? Is it for boys only?!?! Jen

lt's to go around his enormous Schwanstuka(sp).....

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 04:06 PM)

I didn't know how to respond to the swing comment. I know, what's the world coming to? Jenny's at a loss for words! Jen

Too close to home? NO pun intended....

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everyone missed my jackstand joke. Must have been too close to the truth :-)

I thought it was a good idea...

QUOTE (Jenny @ Apr 11 2005, 10:55 AM)

Can you explain to the uneducated why there are two straps for the bottom? To go around your three legs? Is it for boys only?!?! Jen

Good catch, Jenny!!! I never would have noticed!