Fixing roof racks...

[gotham]

Hypothetically speaking...you skip lunch and dinner doesn't happen because you're out on the trails all night and then you get hungry and go through the drive-thru and let's just pretend for a minute that your stomach is doing all the thinking and it forgets about a certain bike on the roof...how easy is it to fix the rack if it's all bent and stuff?

Anyone with experience?

A friends friend of my friend might have had this happen to him...or her last night.

No shuttling for awhile now :(

[Lady Gravity]

ahhhhhhh never happened to me but had a few friends do it, so i feel your pain :( how's the bike? i think the roof rack is likely sol...

[SkunkworkS]

Remember, "the wife" did it. It's the motto all pwned-roof-rackers go by.

[heckler]

how about - my wife's friend did that too! doh!

and destroyed her roof to the tune of a couple thousand too. I hope you're lucky enough that no damage happened to the car.

Replace the rack, unless you like wondering if your, er, I mean your friend's friend's bike will fall off next time you're blasting up the sea to sky to Whistler.

Try a hitch mount

[SkunkworkS]

I have the perrrfect hitch rack for it as well!

Hitches for your friend's friend's friend's, er, Caravan are about $200 retail for the class 3 2" receiver version.

[the Master Plan Dan]

Skunk... Gotham can't put your rack on his car... they won't put a class 3 hitch on an Acura.

How is the bike bud?

[SkunkworkS]

You mean his wife's friend's friend's friend's Acura.

Crappers, thought she drove a Caravan. Doh!

[the Master Plan Dan]

You mean his wife's friend's friend's friend's Acura.



Right!

[gotham]

The bike is OK I guess, some scratches on the bars and brakes..As for damage to the car - pretty good gouges on the rear window and rear-passenger windows, couple of deep scrapes in the paint on the rear quarter panel and trunk as well..

My Thule Big Mouth is bent in about 6 different places although the bike did stay strapped in..the other two racks were empty but the fork-mount looks a little bent too..it looks like the mounts for the bars themselves are a bit bent and that's the big thing because I don't want to have to replace the bars and the rack..

Should my friends friends best friends cousins daughter go through ICBC for something like this? Would they replace the racks too? Or the bike if it was broken?

Doh!

Dan, pick me up for Dawn Patrol tomorrow? :(

[SkunkworkS]

Worth a shot...

[XXX_er]

well its self inflicted damage so while it would be covered you gotta run ALL the figures and that would be total cost of paying it yerself vs losing any safe driver discounts till you get back to where you are now/any dedutable and I think there is a 250$ chrge for claiming a self inflicted accident.

you can do an ICBC claim and they will help you run the figures & decide which way to go,if you file a claim and decide not to follow thru and it won't affect your record

note:I actualy should have put "your friend " wherever I said "you "