Quote Originally Posted by jesvetmed View Post
OK.. this one's not me (I swear!). My friend drove her car into the automatically lifted up garage door... with the bike on the roof rack! To make it worse, after the bike / rack and car were repaired, her husband did the exact same thing to his bike a couple of weeks later. (It was a new house, new concept ). At least his lightspeed wasn't injured. But -- I hope that I have learned from them!
Standard operating procedure for me when I had a roof rack - and parked my truck in the garage - was: bikes on the roof = garage door opener came OFF the visor and got pitched into the back seat! I never wanted to do that. Now....the bikes ride on the back of the truck, and I sweat everytime I stop at a stop sign or light with someone behind me ("Oh, please stop. Please stop. Please, please, please.....").

Some of the local gals here know I'm something of a half-arsed birder. One time, I was out for a ride, and I heard a bird call, and spun to look for it. I rode right OFF the road -- onto just a dirt shoulder and stayed upright, thankfully. But the surprise + the twist + the jolt of the dirt = I threw out my back! Ugh, it was a loooong, painful ride home to the ice packs, the Advil, and the phone number to my chiropractor!!!