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My friends skis fell of his roof rack
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going 60+ on the highway. Moments later they were run over by an 18 wheeler. Make sure your roof racks are secured ns.
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wow thats terrible. That happened to my friend last year. It was a bummer
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ya i lost a ski from that last year
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my dad just bought a roof bin for 80 bucks off some guy.
i'm really questioning the durability of it..
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I guess this is a bit more common than I thought. I was amazed. After arriving late, and on rental skis, all he could say was "I can't tell you how much this morning sucked."
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that happened a pair of my skis a couple years ago. luckily only a couple of spots took any damage and I was lucky there were no cars, but damn 70mph will fuck em up pretty good.
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same thing happened to me and three friends coming back from high north years back...all our skis were destroyed by traffic but thankfully we had homeowners insurance that replaced our skis for the value of skis+bindings
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I always wonder about the roof racks.
Like, at the very least, your skis (and bindings) are gong to get blasted full of road grime and salt. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. The girl and I drive up to the hill in a tiny Civic. The rear seats flip forward, and we just store the skis inside.
Works pretty good for us.
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thule man. Keep em nice and safe. Plus gives you lots o room inside.
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me too. and my boots. we had a bag strapped to the roof, and my brand new foil boots that i got last christmas came off. let me reitereate. it was january 2nd and i was super stoked to go use my 8 day old boots.
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shit son that totally blows, we usually just shove everything in the back of the truck/van/suv.
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That really sucks, but yeah we just put our stuff in the back of our car.
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the first day i had my skis i forgot to shut my rack.... i drove about a mile without knowing it was open too... then remembered and amazingly they were still up there
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Damn, i always wondered about that and thought it damn near never happened, apparently i was wrong, damn sorry bro that sucks
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yeah, mine were safe in my car which I do when there's room for them. in the car > on the roof
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that sucks..did the ski rack break? or were the skis just not well
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lol after reading this thread i am never going to use a rack
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A week or two ago that happened to me and my friends. My roof rack blew open on the highway and 3 pairs of skis flew off at 75 mph. Luckily, after probably half an hour of some really intense searching and stress, we got all the skis back with a little help from some really nice people who found one of the pairs. None of the skis were actually damaged really at all though, pretty crazy.
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Going about 85 on the highway, roof rack comes open, and my cousins public enemies flies off.
Somehow they were fine, and even weirder was that I had bought my brand new trouble makers 3 days before, and they stayed on the rack. Never been so relieved/happy in my entire life
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My volvo can put the inner armrest down, and I can put my skis straight inside. I love it.
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ya well getting a ski rack is so you don't have to do that soo you don't scratch up the interior or get it all wet and nasty but i got locks for mine so if i remember to lock um it should be good
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I'm not positive on the exact details because he's not entirely sure how it happened. He closed them like always and checked the racks too, but about an hour into the trip the back one opened up and the skis flew out.
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happened to me last season, my thrusters got wrecked, sued the company, got my money back and enough for my new volkl walls, thanks thule
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holy shit that blows more than micheal jackson at a boy scouts convention.
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racks are for pussies. we fit 4 people and gear into my buddie 2 door tercel
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that sucks, that happened to my dad in like the 60's when roof racks were secured on by suction cups
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early season mt snow this year, before carinthia and the main mtn were connected, i was driving a bunch of kids back in my car, i think 8, but anyways we cramm all of the snowboards into the car then there were 4 pairs of skis on the rack, well my friend being the dumb ass he was forgot to close the racks, i started doing doughnuts on in the mud, and see mainy pairs of skis spread around the lot....
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i always worry about that happening
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id rather jam my 178's im my wrangler, get smacked in the face the whole way there,and them cutting away at my softtop then put them on a roof rack
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that is and "OH SHIT" situation.
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yea it sucks, this happened to me two weekends ago. we were on 81, which for you non-newyorkers is a large fast highway. so we lost three pairs of skis over a spread of a mile. one pair got run over, but they were good, and my friend had to run in front of a 18 wheeler speeding towards them. another went into a colvert and the last pair were teetering on the edge of a bridge over a river. luckliy all the skis were good, but yea sucks for your friend. deff double check your rack. Â
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that happened to my friend, but they stayed in
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wow that makes me feel super lucky... last weekend we were cruisin around 45-50 on a windy road and we realized that the rack was open with my friends new lizzys on the end sliding around. when we got out to fix it after a few minutes the top ski was about to slip forward off the rack and that'd let the other 3 pairs on there slip of too. i guess you alwyas gotta double check that stuff...
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lol ya my skis were on the outside. my friends were fine but one of my skis wasnt so lucky.
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