Originally Posted by dwmckee

For what ever it is worth, we own a bike shop and last year we had 3 bikes come in that were damaged on roof racks because the driver either forgot it was on top or because they misjudged the height of a tree branch over the car. One was a very nice CoMotion Tandem which we had to replace the fork for and some other smaller issues. One guy with a single bike scraped the whole thing off of his roof entering his garage. The latter did quite a bit more damage to his vehicle as well.