Anyone guilty of this? (please?)
I was thinking this might go in the crazy drivers section, but I decided to put it here.
I'm hoping I'm not the only complete retard to ever do this :D
I got home a few weeks ago from my Saturday morning ride, we'd left out at 6 and did a good 40 miles. Anyway I get in the driveway and open the garage door, and in between my thoughts of the fantastic breakfast I'm going to eat, i notice my dog has decided to take a dump on my neighbors driveway. So my mind wanders from breakfast to having to pick up after the pooch. Needless to say I forget that my 4 month old Trek is still in the bike rack on the roof. You can obviously figure out where this is going :D
Anyway, I wasn't going too fast thankfully but managed to knock the rack loose on the car as the bike hit the garage. The best bit was the order of priority of damage checking:
BIKE (fine except the front tire needing to be trued) - RACK (fine except for 1 FUBAR'D tray wheel clip) - CAR (1 small dent in roof and 2 decent scratches....nothing a little touch up paint didn't handle).
My b/f comes out like "did you just do what I think you did" Since the Trek was ok, I could laugh.
Am I the only one? :cool:
Good friend did the same thing!
A good friend of my husband and me did the exact same thing. He has a roof rack on top of his Toyota 4 Runner and after a long hard mountain bike ride and a long drive home . . . he completely forgot about his bike on top of his vehicle. Needless to say his Ellsworth got quite a bit of damage. He was devastated and without a bike for a month! This was two years ago. He is now very very careful when pulling into his garage!
Sue
remember, garages aren't the only danger spots
don't forget about all those drive-throughs that many of us don't give a second thought to, as we drive right in on a daily basis: banks, fast food, dry cleaners, espresso stands (I am in Seattle, y'know!), public parking garages (even when they note the clearance, you have to remember if you have a bike on top)...and even some hotel/motels have a low roof in their entry drives.
So, even if you put your garage door opener in your seat bag or set up some kind of a reminder signal to prevent you from driving into your garage with your bike sitting up there, what methods do you use to keep from forgetting or automatically entering a drive through like one mentioned above?
Too many obstacles and safety hazards to think about even while off the bike, eh?!