Anyone done this?
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Anyone ever done this? Come home with your bike on your car roof top after a day in the saddle and totally space that your bike is on the top of you car. Open you garage door and pull in only to hear a bang and immediately know what you just did.
Not only is your bike trashed but your bike rack and the roof of you car is all banged up.
Turns a good day on the bike into Sh*t Happens.
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Posted on: May 21st, 2008 By: Tyler Ford In: Road Rash / Crashes, Uncategorized / Random Post
May 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
Put a piece of tape over your garage door opener, or put the opener itself in your seatbag and leave it on the bike.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am
I have a Scott Speedster as well. Fortunately mine is still structurally intact. Man that’s a tough bike-injury.
This is one main reason I don’t have a rack on my outback, and if I did need to carry the bike (and it wouldn’t go in the wagon part) I’d get a hitch mount. Also a reason I don’t have a garage. That and money.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Man, that stinks.
I realize it’s after the fact, but other methods I’ve heard of to prevent this are:
1. Placing opener in the glove box.
2. Hanging a small sign from the lower edge of the garage door that says “Are your bikes on the car?”; or something to that effect. This way you see the sign as the garage door opens.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I did this a number of years ago with my Gary Fisher mtn bike. Took the kids to a trail about an hour away and was really tired when I got home. I was pulling into the garage real slow and heard a noise and and hit the brake. Somehow, the only damage was to the Jand basket on the handlebars. I got away cheap at $30. After that, I started placing a garbage can in the garage when I was using the roof rack, so I couldn’t pull in without getting out of the car. Eventually, I got a new car and now use a hitch rack.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 am
Well now I don’t feel so bad for running over my front wheel in the driveway after putting my bicycle on the roof rack and forgetting about it.
Not only did I forget about it, I didn’t even notice running it over. It was only when I got to my destination did I realize, hey! Where the hell is the front wheel? Drove home, turned in the driveway, ahh there it is. And it isn’t looking straight. Sadness…
But then I see this, and I realize I am not alone in the world. Now to form a support group!
Maybe I should mount a mirror over the garage door so I can see the roof, you know, just to be on the safe side.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:44 am
I have a friend that went to a drive thru with his and a friend’s bike. In the long run it may be cheaper to get a car where the bikes will fit in the back.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 am
sad: your bike is dead
happy: you’re on the market for a new one
May 28th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Ouch! Luckily we have so much junk in the garage, there’s no way I could drive the car in!
Had a hitch rack on my last car but when the car got totalled and we replaced it, the new car won’t carry the hitch rack. I’m also too short to use the roof-mount racks so when I go alone, the bike is on a rack on the hatch….when we both go, he puts the bikes on the roof….
I know this has hapened to lots of folks, and it’s really sad….we’re ususally tired when we get home, and it would be easy enough to do.
K Burwell
New Haven CT.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
did it to my serotta ottrott going through a low covered bridge in galena, il after the Galena Duathlon-did it again to my track bike going through a drive in bank and third time was again my ottrott in the same damn drive in bank
they sell a reminder to hang from the rear view mirror, but……………………..
June 5th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
And that is why I carry my bikes inside of my Explorer!!!