Thread: Roof Bars - a safety notice !

Sounds like that is worth at least a carton.

This is one of the reasons I only carry my bikes on the back. However after fitting a long range tank, my spare now sits on the roof whenever we are going outside the metro area. Need to remember to stop before driving all the way into the garage.

Sympathies Steve, but no one in the family is likely to stick up their hand to take the blame for you.

Should have put the In Laws on the roof and the bike in the back!

Not that it would have helped in this particular situation, but I always (a) hide the garage door opener in the glove box, and (b) tape a warning note to the opener, when there is anything on the roof rack. Once I took the very tips off the top MaxTrak which was on the roof rack. It was probably the best possible thing to hit the garage door with AND there were no helpful women folk onboard to observe the event.

Sorry to hear about the collision.

Sounds like the time I drove under the carport with the Ute Crane installed on the back of the 2a!

John

I used to have a get out of jail free card because my now Ex Missus not only managed to back out of the garage with the door down........... but also punched the front wall out of the garage with her car.......... and then claimed it was damage from a Roo hit.

Didnt know they painted Roo's blue these days? :-)

Originally Posted by Beamin

You don't mention any damage to the bike. Was it tougher than the garage door, the racks and the roof?

Amazingly the bike was fine apart from the rear brake caliper being slightly out of line...

In terms of pics - i wasn't thinking straight at the time - but I can get some scratch pics tonight.

Back when I was a baby there was no such thing as portacots, so when it came time to travel to visit family the timber cot was strapped to the roof racks of the Mitsubishi Van and they set off.

Couple of kms down the road they realised they had forgotten something so turned around to get it. Dad drove straight back under the 2 storey house at a rate of knots.

One splintered and destroyed timber cot later they were able resume the journey. Apparently Mum nearly laughed herself to death but I'm certain Dad didn't... dunno where I slept that trip

Thats nearly as bad as the time I put my awning on in the garage. Bolted it to the roof racks as usual and got in the car.

Went to drive out and I hear a thump on the roof. I jumped out and discovered it was the the cord used to mannually lower the door in a power failure. Then realised that I had no chance of driving out with the awning on even at access height.

So awning had to come off again, drive out, then put it back on. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that I have always put the awning on with the car on the drive way.... Not my finest hour.