PG

So there I am happily traveling up to Laggan WolfTrax for their Demo day. Cruising away up the A9 at around 70mph when out of the corner of my eye I see the rear wheel of my bike! It proceeds to fly by the rear nearside window and batter off my rear window!
Please excuse the crudity of the diagram:

I get out expecting to see bits of mangled bike attached to the bashed roof of my car but no.
It's bad enough but not nearly as bad as it could have been!

I'll be needing a new chainring too!


Paul.

moff1888

Lucky escape there.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I was following a "mate" through Fulham, SW6 late one night when the plonker decides to throw a 1/2 finished can of coke out his window and onto a parked car

Yes it hit but it bounced back off the target and landed back on his windscreen, cracking it!

Amazing thing dynamics and physics

dpb

always thought bikes looked rather vulnarable mounted top roof in this way and hard work to get them up there in first place - was looking at a rear mount for the estate - corse it buggers up the rear view and you need another number plate ...........

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solosteve

thats not good mate, could have much much been worse, like you say.

tell that to the makers of the bike rack aswell..

what ever would have happened if it had smashed the window
with a kid sitting in there... not good at all...

little-ginge

His karma for throwing out that coke can

Spoon

Is that really the colour of the car?

corradoboy

Didn't Clarkson once work out that a bicyclist from London wanting to have a ride in Scotland would save money by putting the bike onto the train and meeting it up there due to the extra fuel required because of the drag of the bikes

little-ginge

You mean raspberry pink?

dunx

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is that 70 mph, as in...
'ello, 'ello who do you think you are Stirling Moss ?

LOL

DunxC

P.S. I put mine in the boot ! Smug git !

PG

It has to be said that the colour reproduction of the Sony Ericsson K850i isn't the best. I'll make sure not to colour match from the pic!

dpb

So do i - mondeo estate - but its a bugger when its coated 4" deep in mud


I think its cherise

LG John

Need to get in the kitchen and mix up a new spoiler. Flour...check. Raising agents.....check. Red dye.....check.....

Spoon

Yes, exactly what I mean.

little-ginge

PG

Saxo,
Unfortunately this is a pre-cake model. I tried a bit of marzipan cataloy, Strawbery jam as paint and honey as hardener but alas it wasn't to be.

ChrisB

Nasty Paul.

I do like my towbar mounted rack, even if it takes a bit longer to load the bikes up.

Jamo

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that dosent look good! I have one of the towbar ones spare if you want it mate? pm me.

james

trails

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one of my mates lost lost a bike rack off the back of a mkII scirroco with three bmx's at a roundabout once...bikes were fine bike rack was a little twisted

PG

James, thanks very much for the offer but unfortunately no one makes a towbar for the VRS. I just bought myself another couple of bike carriers. The kind that clamp on the down tube as well as holding the wheels in. It's all very much 'after the horse has bolted' but hey, it'll be my birthday present to myself. Ironically it was a year ago yesterday somone ran in to the wife's car!

Paul.

Scoobydiid

I had one come off the roof completely many years ago in the fast lane of the M3. Was the most bowel losening experience of my life, how the following cars managed to miss it I will never know. I had to run half a mile back to get it out of the road, I really was worried that it would have caused a crash or even killed someone. Its a tow bar rack now!

Needless to say, anything that ever does go on a roof rack is roped, cable tied, bungied, along with a couple of those ratchet webbing ties.

No way am I doing that again.

vindaloo

The VRS isn't type-approved to tow... No "trailer/train weight" on the V5.

However, that doesn't preclde you from fitting a towbar or towbar mount. Then you attach the bike carrier to it. The RS on the Continent is approved to tow in some countries, so towbars that fit are out there somewhere.

I'm sure at least one Briskodian has a VRS with a towbar.

J.

DYK

Nice Paint job on the car,matches the colour of the bikes....

ChrisB

It's well known that pink bikes are faster

Chrisgr31

I had a bike fall over on my roof rack. Before we set off my wife said "Are you sure the bikes are securred?" and i of course replied in a why question me fashion "Of course they are"

So off we go with her brand new bike never ridden before and my bike on the roof. We get to a roundabout and theres a large crash from the roof. Stop and investigate and my wifes bike has fallen over, the pedal putting a nice dent in the roof. No apparent damage to the bikes so Re-secure them and carry on. Arrive at destination and get bikes off roof only for my wife to complain the wheels won't go round! Sure enough both wheels are buckled, so we have to buy new wheels for a brand new bike!

However have in the past had a rack that attaches to the tailgate, and that dented the tailgate!

RUDDY

bloody muppets! i used to carry three bmx's on the back of my classic mini cooper. never ever had any problems like this although after a good 2 years of use the bracket took a little paint off from inside the bootlid. how on earth do you fail to put a bike on a bike rack properly?? id consider that task pretty important!
saying that though i bet you have never split ya head open and knocked your self out going down a slide at the local swimming pool? so i guess were even!

andythejock01wrx

I have a Saris Bones which I use for my 01 WRX, which fits onto the boot. Can't say I'm that impressed. It keeps sliding down the boot and sits against the spoiler, so I've taken to putting black tape on the spoiler, which protects it (although far from ideal).

Will prob go roof mount next, but recently have just hired bikes at Laggan (will be there in 4 weeks ).

andythejock01wrx

I think you missed an apostrophe or two there. "Bloody muppet".

M444GY

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lucky u still have the bike . ud be buggered if it had flown off. always warey when i see cars with any roof mounted objects