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This is a photo of just one of several ruined rack components. I'll leave it up to you to imagine the bike.
I've heard all the tricks about hiding the garage door opener in your bike glove so you'll be reminded, etc. The problem with these ideas is that you have to remember to do them. If I have the presence of mind to remember something, I'm darn well going to start by remembering that I have a bike on the roof! No, I need a tactic that doesn't require conscious initialization each time. Closest thing I've seen is those red flags that you hang on the inside of the garage door, so that when it goes up the flag drops down and flashes a quick warning, like, "Hey! You! Look up! Guess I'll have to try to make one of those.
Of course if I were living more simply I wouldn't have the door wired up to a motor. I'd have to get out of the car to open it and then I'd probably notice that bike up there, wouldn't I?
What are your tricks to forestall this particular kind of disaster?
2 comments:
no tricks to offer. Just have to tell you, we did it too, last week. It was an awful moment. Amazingly, though, the bike (Ray's ) seems to have sustained no damage. The car roof has a slight scratch. And, we need to replace one piece ($25) from the rack.
We've only had the rack a few weeks. Let me repeat, it was an awful moment.
One small trick: the kid on watch trick. Since the incident, Alden has actually been great, as I drive towards the garage, about saying, "do you have bikes on the roof, Mom?"
You can just about set you clock to the "Bike vs. Garage Door" threads on MTBR. I don't have a Garage. If I did, i'd probably drive into it at one point or another.
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