Well I seriouly doubt it's going to do your head any good.

It's there to protect the paint on the roll bar. Now I got it.

 

It depends on the padding. That soft stuff that looks like pool noodles really will do nothing more than protect your helmet from scratching. Hit that with your head in a real impact and you're still going to get a concussion. Hit it while getting in and out of the car and it's going hurt a bit.

Real SFI-rated rollbar padding feels hard as a rock but might save you from a head injury if you contact the bar in an impact. Hit that padding when getting in and out of the car and it will still leave a mark

Bottom line, rollcages for the street are stupid and carry the very real possibility of causing injury to vehicle occupants in something so simple as a fender bender. Rollbars need to be designed very carefully to try to minimize the possibilty of your head impacting them in an accident. Your head can move in directions you probably haven't contemplated in a rear-end accident. Smacking the back or side of your head on a rollbar at a force of several G's will cause damage to you. Damage that wouldn't have occured if that rollbar wasn't there.

Additional rolllover protection is not to be taken lightly. In order for those systems to work properly, they're engineered as a package. Proper seat, proper restraints (harness) and rollbar. Most of these aren't really suitable for the street so when substituting for the factory engineered roll protection you have to take various factors into account. Pretty blue paint and bent diagonals are not the answer

 

As ludedude mentioned rollbar padding will not prevent serious head trauma from contact with the tube. Of course dragging your head along the ground with a car on top of you is a pretty dramatic and dire situation. The reality is that rollover accidents of that type are quite rare. It is much more likely for you to be in an accident from either end of the car or the side. So, in my opinion, the increased risk of head trauma from hitting a bar (even a padded one) more than offsets the incremental safety improvement in an unlikely rollover.

If you track your car and wear a helmet, the benefits start shifting towards using the aftermarket system.

 

Cusco is used in JGTC and is legal...if anyone cares about JGTC

 

I don't believe anyone has mentioned this, but certain companies or policies are negated when an aftermarket rollbar/cage are installed in an otherwise street car. Check with your insurance beforehand.

 

I dont' know why people bag on the Cusco roll bars so much.

I got into a rollover with one and I'm doing fine:

 

LOL hahahahahhhhahaaa

 

yes and those roll cages have about as much in similar with the street cusco cages as my S2k has with a JGTC car.