Fist Good Wreck... Advice on Pushbars
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:49 am
My son's best buddy visited last week, he loved the Cubmobile, but just didn't seem ever to be in control of it...
I worked with him for 20 minutes, and finally he did the worst thing you could do with our offset seat... at top speed, he hard-snatched the steering to turn the car right, and rolled it.
He had a minor scrape or two, nothing bad... scared him pretty good though.
I believe the car would not have rolled so easily with the brick load in the back, but we have it lightened for playing... we also removed the steering stop (my son has never had any trouble controlling the car smoothly, as did several other kids at his Den... I dunno what possessed my son's friend to suddenly snatch the steering like he did!).
The key lesson was the pushbar made an excellent rollbar and kept the car off of him.
It would be advisable, I would think, for all Cubmobiles to have some form of pushbar for purpose of roll protection.
Terry
I worked with him for 20 minutes, and finally he did the worst thing you could do with our offset seat... at top speed, he hard-snatched the steering to turn the car right, and rolled it.
He had a minor scrape or two, nothing bad... scared him pretty good though.
I believe the car would not have rolled so easily with the brick load in the back, but we have it lightened for playing... we also removed the steering stop (my son has never had any trouble controlling the car smoothly, as did several other kids at his Den... I dunno what possessed my son's friend to suddenly snatch the steering like he did!).
The key lesson was the pushbar made an excellent rollbar and kept the car off of him.
It would be advisable, I would think, for all Cubmobiles to have some form of pushbar for purpose of roll protection.
Terry