New bikes are toast

[GusTheTinter]

My wife and I got an early start to go up to Holland MI to do some bicycle riding on some of the trail around there.

I loaded the bikes onto my 99 beetle and got on the road before 7am. I checked the bikes out just before hitting the interstate (88) and everything checked out ok.

When I got up to 65 the bikes (2 month old giants) flew off the rack

I saw them bouncing down the road about 10 feet off the ground

So now we are waiting for the bike shop to open so I can get a new bike for the wife (mine servived).

I hope this is the only thing to go bad on this trip

[Mdog]

JeeeeeeeZus

[Guest tintgod]

that what you get for driving a beetle...

[Guest thetintshop]

damn, what happened? I'm assuming it was a faulty rack, because somebody has to be blamed for it. whoever sold me that rack would be buying me some new bikes.

ah yes, the american way.

[RICHat22]

damn, what happened? I'm assuming it was a faulty rack, because somebody has to be blamed for it. whoever sold me that rack would be buying me some new bikes.

ah yes, the american way.

TTS has it figured out. Must have some lawyer blood in him

[oldtinter]

Damn Gus.... I can picture the look on your face. Hope you took picks.

[GusTheTinter]

The bike rack was a used one (the wife picked it up somewhere) For the life of me I don't know why I put $600.00 worth of bikes on a $20.00 rack

We used our mini-van with the good bike rack (the kind that goes into the receiver hitch) Along with a new bike for the wife

(good thing the week before was a good one for tinting )

All in all we had a good time riding up in MI . We road a good 18 miles in just rain, not bad for the 60 some miles we road