First 'rack-cident"
09-19-12 | 02:09 PM
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I would probably buy a Heads Up warning system to prevent it from happening again.
https://www.headsupsystems.com/
https://www.headsupsystems.com/
09-19-12 | 02:48 PM
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I would probably buy a Heads Up warning system to prevent it from happening again.
https://www.headsupsystems.com/
https://www.headsupsystems.com/
09-19-12 | 02:50 PM
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09-19-12 | 02:50 PM
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09-19-12 | 02:53 PM
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No. But they may go up $50 or $100 (I'm no expert on insurance), and you'll pay the extra for many years to come.
09-19-12 | 02:54 PM
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Remotes for my opener have been gone for years. Nowadays the cars come with them built into the mirror or sun visor. And the door spends lots of time open with the kids running around. But if I were using a portable remote opener, I would certainly leave it at home when car-topping bikes.
09-19-12 | 02:56 PM
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09-19-12 | 02:59 PM
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09-19-12 | 03:15 PM
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Good luck, hopefully things are different where you are.
09-19-12 | 03:42 PM
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Maybe not where you are, but in S. Florida a homeowners claim is the kiss of death. I've been through three hurricanes and a new roof with no claims in fear my premiums will go from around $2400/yr to $9K after they drop me and I have to go to Citizens, the default insurer of last resort.
Good luck, hopefully things are different where you are.
Good luck, hopefully things are different where you are.
https://voices.yahoo.com/homeowners-i...m-5033244.html
[h=1]Homeowners Insurance: To Claim or Not to Claim?[/h]
[h=2]The answer to that question will go a long way toward determining whether your homeowners insurance will ultimately cost you more or even get canceled.[/h]
https://www.houselogic.com/home-advic...-not-to-claim/
09-19-12 | 03:44 PM
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Speak of the devil:
SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) – A couple of months ago, my husband drove into our garage - with an expensive bicycle still on the roof of the car. The house and the car were undamaged, but the bike was beyond repair.
https://money.cnn.com/2005/01/21/pf/i...e/filingclaim/
SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) – A couple of months ago, my husband drove into our garage - with an expensive bicycle still on the roof of the car. The house and the car were undamaged, but the bike was beyond repair.
https://money.cnn.com/2005/01/21/pf/i...e/filingclaim/
09-19-12 | 06:34 PM
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Remotes for my opener have been gone for years. Nowadays the cars come with them built into the mirror or sun visor. And the door spends lots of time open with the kids running around. But if I were using a portable remote opener, I would certainly leave it at home when car-topping bikes.
09-24-12 | 08:08 PM
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Or put a piece of blue masking tape over the dash button that opens the door. Just about free, doesn't impact/inconvenience other door users, and it pretty bulletproof.
I've done it for years.
BUT -- it isnt' foolproof.
I've done it for years.
BUT -- it isnt' foolproof.
09-24-12 | 08:36 PM
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Cut out a small circle of self-adhered velcro, with a hole in the middle the size of your dash button for the opener. Then take a small square of a stiff material and put the other half of the velcro on the back of that. Stick it over the opener button in the car so that you absolutely, physically, cannot push the button until you actually pull the piece off.
09-24-12 | 09:00 PM
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It does not matter how many reminders of that bike on the roof you have. Human is very prone to miss something - miss to leave the opener at the house, miss to read the sign, miss to tape the button, miss to hear the bip(because of loud music or intense dialogue). You can't rely on warnings, simply because they are the same nature as remembering that the bike is on the roof - you have to remember to do something or not to do.
IMHO - the only way to prevent enetering the garage with the bikes is - do not enter the garage at all, when you approach the house. Period. Never.
You may put the car in the garage later, but not on initial approach.
Once you will know, that you never entered the garage for the last several months you will be able to tell, that you are on the new level - instinct, not your memory. And only then you are save. More or less.
IMHO - the only way to prevent enetering the garage with the bikes is - do not enter the garage at all, when you approach the house. Period. Never.
You may put the car in the garage later, but not on initial approach.
Once you will know, that you never entered the garage for the last several months you will be able to tell, that you are on the new level - instinct, not your memory. And only then you are save. More or less.
09-30-12 | 04:16 PM
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Cut out a small circle of self-adhered velcro, with a hole in the middle the size of your dash button for the opener. Then take a small square of a stiff material and put the other half of the velcro on the back of that. Stick it over the opener button in the car so that you absolutely, physically, cannot push the button until you actually pull the piece off.
09-30-12 | 05:02 PM
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Yes, for weeks before this I have been telling my kids that there is nothing funny about that commercial! Now they run and get me everytime it airs
Usually, just being in my cycling clothes as I approach the house is all I need to remember the bike is up there. But alas, mayhem has found me and struck.
Still waiting on the insurance info for the bike. Likely answer is it goes on the home policy, if only to put it through a different deductible. Hopefully get my car back on tuesday.
Roof racks are pretty convenient. No way I can carry all 4 bikes for the family on a trunk rack. Not even one bike fits in the trunk, could put one bike sans front wheel in the back seat I suppose, or in the trunk if I didn't close it. No hitch is available for my model car. Garage opener is buit into the mirror. Not even sure I have a portable one anymore. All I can think of is to block the parking spot physically when I put a bike on top. Sure wish I hadn't gotten complacent all those years ago and stopped doin that.
Think I am elibible for a discount frame under specialized's crash program?
Usually, just being in my cycling clothes as I approach the house is all I need to remember the bike is up there. But alas, mayhem has found me and struck.
Still waiting on the insurance info for the bike. Likely answer is it goes on the home policy, if only to put it through a different deductible. Hopefully get my car back on tuesday.
Roof racks are pretty convenient. No way I can carry all 4 bikes for the family on a trunk rack. Not even one bike fits in the trunk, could put one bike sans front wheel in the back seat I suppose, or in the trunk if I didn't close it. No hitch is available for my model car. Garage opener is buit into the mirror. Not even sure I have a portable one anymore. All I can think of is to block the parking spot physically when I put a bike on top. Sure wish I hadn't gotten complacent all those years ago and stopped doin that.
Think I am elibible for a discount frame under specialized's crash program?
If I take both wheels off a bike it fits in the trunk of my Corolla.
10-01-12 | 07:59 AM
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It does not matter how many reminders of that bike on the roof you have. Human is very prone to miss something - miss to leave the opener at the house, miss to read the sign, miss to tape the button, miss to hear the bip(because of loud music or intense dialogue). You can't rely on warnings, simply because they are the same nature as remembering that the bike is on the roof - you have to remember to do something or not to do.
IMHO - the only way to prevent enetering the garage with the bikes is - do not enter the garage at all, when you approach the house. Period. Never.
You may put the car in the garage later, but not on initial approach.
Once you will know, that you never entered the garage for the last several months you will be able to tell, that you are on the new level - instinct, not your memory. And only then you are save. More or less.
IMHO - the only way to prevent enetering the garage with the bikes is - do not enter the garage at all, when you approach the house. Period. Never.
You may put the car in the garage later, but not on initial approach.
Once you will know, that you never entered the garage for the last several months you will be able to tell, that you are on the new level - instinct, not your memory. And only then you are save. More or less.
10-01-12 | 08:01 AM
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I actually bought and returned three different trunk mount racks last year. I found that with each of them, you could not transport the number of bikes as advertised. I physically could not get the family's three bikes on the three bike racks.
10-01-12 | 08:04 AM
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I used to use a small step ladder. Problem was, a family member would see it, decide it would be handy to use in the house, and not put it back. So I stopped doing it. I am now using orange cones. Not much other use for orange cones, I hope. Plus I store them on the handlebar ends, so it should be pretty hard to forget to deploy.