I committed a sin today...

A SIN??? He's the one that forgot his ride. Absolutely no reason why he should not speak to you....so there is no reason why you can't get your ride..........just don't let him drive if yours is up on the roof. Good luck with the insurance payment. OUCH!

LOL - he is being MUCH nicer about it than I would have been   When we first put the racks on the roof, I said to him that one of us was going to do this and that we need to make a sign to hang on the garage door every time we take a bike out.  I made it this afternoon

Oh wow. That is really bad. I'm so sorry.

My Mother once drove the family SUV with the ski box on top into the parking garage.  It was not a happy day.  I can't imagine...

Good luck with the insurance thing!

Ugh.  I did that last summer not even 3 months after I'd first had a garage EVER.

My trick now is to take the automatic door opener remote off the visor when the bike is on the roof.  I stick it in the glove box.  Takes TWO seconds...literally.  When I reach up for it and it isn't there and I think, "Why did I take the remote down" I immediately think "Oh yeah...that's why."

My car insurance would not cover the bike.  They covered the car and the rack (which was all but destroyed) but not the garage or the bike.  Their rational was that the bike was not part of the car but the rack was.  The damage to the garage and bike came out to what my deductible on my homeowners would have been anyway, so I just paid for it.  Luckily it was my OLD sturdy bike and I really only destroyed the front brakes.

Let me tell you...bike handlebars stuck between the garage door and the front wall of the house and a bike suspended in mid-air...some funny shizel if you don't realize what you've just done long enough to have a good laugh about it.  I guess I timed it just right that I was driving in as the door was still going up so the handlebars got stuck right inbetween.  It was SO hard ot get back out of there!

I don't know I'd call it a sin...

Don't you know?  The bike goes in the car while the husband goes on top!  He can duck for the low-hanging door. 

Bummer!!!  Sorry to hear that.  Sounds like you will both get over it though and have a funny story to tell years from now (I hope).

I had a friend that pulled in with a roof rack and accidentally hit the garage door button again just as she was entering the garage.  She freaked when it hit the top of her truck and hit the gas.  Ripped the garage door off the tracks and everything.

A couple of years ago at the Wildflower Tri, a bunch of people were camped out and up drives a car with bikes on the roof.  As the car drives around looking for a spot to camp, a bunch of the campers jump up and start waving and pointing at the bikes and yelling.  The driver looks at them all funny and keeps driving... right under a low-hanging branch of an oak tree and smashes both bikes.

I bet it wasn't a fun race for either of those two people in the car... since they had to watch it instead of race it.

We have our bike rack on the back and I always worry about backing into something or being rear-ended in traffic.

Your husband seems like a very sweet and understanding man.   

Well it sounds as though I have joined an elite club   You all make me feel much more, ummm, normal   It is our first house with a garage and my husband has never had roof racks before (he has a truck).  But I will consider the advise to put hubby on the roof next time

The damage to the bike doesn't appear to be that bad.  The bike was jammed between the car and the door frame and we had to let all of the air out of the car tires to get the bike out.  The aero bars are ripped to shreds as is his computer.  But nothing else looks bad.  We are not sure if there are any stress fractures but he thinks the frame is bent.  We need to take it to a bike doctor.  The rack that it was on is bent quite severely and there is some damage to the house where the bike impacted it.  It could have been a lot worse.  I am not sure if the insurance company will replace it unless the bike shop can write it off due to a stressed frame.  I am waiting to hear back from my insurance lady to find out if car or homeowners is the way to go.

I am sorry to hear that.  Hopefully she is not bent.

I have had SUV's for over a decade and always had the hich rack.  This year I switched to a car and no longer need a hitch so I am shopping for a rack.  I was sure it was going to be a roof rack till now.  I suffer from CRS - Can't Remember Sh**.

So who do I trust more, the other guy/gal not rearending me or me forgeting a bike is on top?

I will be getting a trunk rack.

Sorry to hear about the bike and I know this is kind of like the barn door with the horse already out in the field, A suggestion regarding the remote is to put it in the trunk when the rack goes on the car.

Hope all turns out ok on the insurance front.