How do you like this retractable soft top?

Need another option like “Maybe, if the design looks right.”

Would it need to be a "flow through" design so that it doesn't catch too much wind?

Would it be attached at the front in some way?

Inquiring minds want to know. LOL

I have thought of this, probably like many of us, for years. I was thinking it could work with no forward support if it had low mounted, removable supports similar to this awning.

If the supports had a fixed base mount (4-6 inch sleeve at a 25* angle) and a hand adjustable tension system(twist or lever) and the top material was robust enough, you should be able to mount the top to the roll bars with no skeleton. Again, much like this canopy. The arms could be stored behind the seats and the canopy rolled and Velcro strapped to roll hoops.

Not very sexy though.

If you wanted more pizzazz, you could stitch sleeves into the canopy and use fiberglass tent poles with rubber ends to expand the canopy into any desired shape/style.

I think that this concept has potential. I am one of many SS owners who believe that tops take away from the SS looks, however, this concept has my interest. I am glad you are thinking outside the box.

if this is something you are serious about designing and making yourself, and you are trying to keep your name attached to it and keep the rights for it and maybe make some money off of it, I would advise against saying too much more about it until you have a design and a patent pending.

Without going to look I have a helmet very similar to this....

first time I used it I had the visor on...at 70 mph the wind caught it and almost ripped my head off....

I don’t ride with the visor on...

So it will need to have very good front attachments....like on convertible cars....

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I have thought of this, probably like many of us, for years. I was thinking it could work with no forward support if it had low mounted, removable supports similar to this awning.

If the supports had a fixed base mount (4-6 inch sleeve at a 25* angle) and a hand adjustable tension system(twist or lever) and the top material was robust enough, you should be able to mount the top to the roll bars with no skeleton. Again, much like this canopy. The arms could be stored behind the seats and the canopy rolled and Velcro strapped to roll hoops.

Not very sexy though.

If you wanted more pizzazz, you could stitch sleeves into the canopy and use fiberglass tent poles with rubber ends to expand the canopy into any desired shape/style.

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this one doesn’t appear to be moveable like a convertible top....so they have a very rigid framework all around it...