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Christopher A M
Guest
My XC ski coach and I were traveling to the Dartmouth course to check it out the day before a race.
We were in the team van, and it had the ski box attached to the top.
Needing to make a stop at the bank, he pulled into the drive through, and *crunch* took out a big
piece of the drive through bay. He missed clearing it by about 6 inches. He apologized to the bank
manager, and mentioned that he was a handyman, and that he could return the next day and fix it
himself. They seemed satisfied by this.
When he went to fix it, he measured its actual (pre-accident) height, and found that the molding he
had crushed was 8 inches lower than the clearance sign indicated. At that point he decided they
could fix it themselves.
-CM
Christopher Moyer
Student in Counseling Psychology Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign
On 27 Dec 2002, Terence Griffin wrote:
> Yakima makes a flip-up sign that magnets to the hood right in front of the driver's windsheild. At
> cruising speed, the wind pushes the sign down. When you slow down, it pops up. It is reflective
> and has a mirrored surface facing up from the part that sticks to the hood. So even in dull
> lighting, it is still noticible.
>
> I like the trash can idea! We don't have a garage so it not a problem.
>
> I did drive into a publis parking garage with my biks on the rack. I could fit through the
> entrence just fine, but the roof lower deeper in. I started clipping the insulation off the cross
> beam with my seat. The attendant came running after me before I any real damage. I scuffed the
> seat pretty bad and the pressure left dents from the towers of the rear crossbar, and the wheel
> try was flipped down. but my bike was undamaged. Fhew!
>
> - Tere
>
> "Joseph King, Ph.D." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> > At our house, when you put the bikes on top of the car we also move the garage-dooor-remote from
> > its usual place in the car so that we can't reach for it out of habit.
> >
> > That won't save you from city parking structures as a friend of mine discovered on day many
> > years ago - his car and both our bikes sustained only minor damage. -joe
> >
> > brian roth wrote:
> >
> > > Next time, haul the garbage cans in front of the garage, so you'll have to get out of the car
> > > to move them........
We were in the team van, and it had the ski box attached to the top.
Needing to make a stop at the bank, he pulled into the drive through, and *crunch* took out a big
piece of the drive through bay. He missed clearing it by about 6 inches. He apologized to the bank
manager, and mentioned that he was a handyman, and that he could return the next day and fix it
himself. They seemed satisfied by this.
When he went to fix it, he measured its actual (pre-accident) height, and found that the molding he
had crushed was 8 inches lower than the clearance sign indicated. At that point he decided they
could fix it themselves.
-CM
Christopher Moyer
Student in Counseling Psychology Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign
On 27 Dec 2002, Terence Griffin wrote:
> Yakima makes a flip-up sign that magnets to the hood right in front of the driver's windsheild. At
> cruising speed, the wind pushes the sign down. When you slow down, it pops up. It is reflective
> and has a mirrored surface facing up from the part that sticks to the hood. So even in dull
> lighting, it is still noticible.
>
> I like the trash can idea! We don't have a garage so it not a problem.
>
> I did drive into a publis parking garage with my biks on the rack. I could fit through the
> entrence just fine, but the roof lower deeper in. I started clipping the insulation off the cross
> beam with my seat. The attendant came running after me before I any real damage. I scuffed the
> seat pretty bad and the pressure left dents from the towers of the rear crossbar, and the wheel
> try was flipped down. but my bike was undamaged. Fhew!
>
> - Tere
>
> "Joseph King, Ph.D." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> > At our house, when you put the bikes on top of the car we also move the garage-dooor-remote from
> > its usual place in the car so that we can't reach for it out of habit.
> >
> > That won't save you from city parking structures as a friend of mine discovered on day many
> > years ago - his car and both our bikes sustained only minor damage. -joe
> >
> > brian roth wrote:
> >
> > > Next time, haul the garbage cans in front of the garage, so you'll have to get out of the car
> > > to move them........
