UH-OH! - roof rack and garage

[SadieKate]

As far as your garage goes, just throw your garage door opener in the back seat so you have to stop the car in the driveway.

[SheFly]

Don't worry - you are NOT alone!

Brand new car, reasonably new bike and the drive-up teller. No bike damage, but I did over $600 damage to the roof of my new car. Felt so bad (and worried about telling DH...) that I literally threw up in the parking lot of the bank.

Now - bikes on the back on a hitch rack, or IN the van.

SheFly

[maillotpois]

DH did that..... (wait for it).... TWICE. The rack isn't mechanically fastened to his car, so it popped off with no damage to bikes. We got a cone and would put that in the way for a while. He seems to have put this phase of his driving behind him as it hasn't happened again. But I will ALWAYS nag him as we are approaching when I am in the car. He loves that.

[MommyBird]

My husbands business partner is a terrible driver. We were in a van with him once while attending a Christian retreat and he got pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving!
Years ago he was upset at one of his boys and he gunned his SUV engine in his driveway. It wasn't in park and he drove it into his wife's sedan, which then rolled into his boat in his garage, which then pushed the propeller into his laundry room.
I am sure his insurance agent was not surprised because he keeps him pretty busy with claims, just not usually so many at one time.

[Loraura]

If bikes go on the roof, garage door opener goes back in the house.

If you can't pull in the garage, doesn't matter if you have the bikes on the roof or not.

[Gowest]

I like the idea of the cones, and I ordered a sign to hang down from vistaprint that says "got bike?" and "STOP". Unfortunately I can't put the garage door opener in the car - it is integrated into my car!!! Although I could "unprogram it" I suppose.....surely worth the expense of a bike.....especically mine!!

Shefly - I was sick too when I saw the bike on the driveway and found the fork on the roof rack - especially since I knew my husband was racing in one week!!! Luckily we are the same size - but he has Shimano and I have SRAM and he thinks my bike is "twitchy" - his word....

[smilingcat]

bike on the roof rack and garage.

For what its worth, you are not the first nor will you be the last.

The lucky dude I know shattered his Calfi I think it was, when he drove his car into a parking structure with his beloved bike on the roof rack. That was one of several bike he totalled over the 15 years I've known him. Nice guy but ...

Oh at a picnic or or other gathering with food and drinks, stay away from him cause he WILL spill his drink. I can't count the ways he has spilled his soft drink.

[Biciclista]

My husbands business partner is a terrible driver. We were in a van with him once while attending a Christian retreat and he got pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving!
Years ago he was upset at one of his boys and he gunned his SUV engine in his driveway. It wasn't in park and he drove it into his wife's sedan, which then rolled into his boat in his garage, which then pushed the propeller into his laundry room.
I am sure his insurance agent was not surprised because he keeps him pretty busy with claims, just not usually so many at one time.

rotfl!!! what's his license plate number and state, so we can all avoid him?

[MommyBird]

rotfl!!! what's his license plate number and state, so we can all avoid him?

You are safe. He lives in Georgia.

[Tri Girl]

We don't have a roof rack, but a trunk rack. One time we came home from a race and I didn't pull the car far enough into the garage. I hit the garage button and the door came down and was squishing DH's aerobars, smooshing his bike. He yelled at me, so I hit the "up" button, but hit it too frantically and then it went up and back down.
Didn't do any damage, but he was M*A*D!

He was so mad at me... we are NOT newlyweds, so there was no sweetness there... took him half a day to speak to me again. C'est la vie!