[Closed] Check your bike is secure!

Crikey. Lucky that handlebar end stuck in the headline or whatever!

Beaten to it.
That's scary; will the owner claim their lost property or just say nowt?

Where's the rest of the bike. A large proportion seems to be missing

I wonder if anyone on here is missing their Kona.....

Like Jamie, where is rest of bike?

That was incredibly lucky! The owner of the bike had better come forward as they could well be looking at charges of an unsecure load, much better to make yourself known than have the knock on the door.

This is why I always go for roof or towbar racks, they're the most secure type to prevent this happening. Ever since my days of working at Halfords I've never trusted the strap-type racks as they're far too easy to fit badly and don't always work with lots of cars. I see so many poorly fitted ones on the road and at trail centres it's amazing this thing doesn't happen more often.

Where’s the rest of the bike. A large proportion seems to be missing

I'm guessing the rest of the bike either snapped off or was cut.

This is why I always go for roof or towbar racks, they’re the most secure type to prevent this happening.

Do we know this wasn’t on one of those racks? I’ve heard of people who have lost either bikes or entire racks from both roof and tow bar so certainly not fo proof.

By today’s standards, that’s a pretty long stem.
And those hex grips are proper ‘Old Skool’.

Surely the headline should read "driver hits bike?"

Ever since my days of working at Halfords I’ve never trusted the strap-type racks…

Exactly the same story here. Used to work in Halfords and now wouldn’t go near anything that didn’t properly lock to the toe bar or built in roof bars.

I'm thinking about the physics of it.

The wheel of the bike has come through her open drivers side window and smashed *outward* through the windscreen leaving the handlebars inside and the frame of the bike outside of the car.

How does it do that?

This is probably from plod, who I don't generally attribute an abundence of IQ "The cycle is believed to have come loose from a vehicle travelling on the opposite carriageway."

Even more how? It bounces over and comes at the car *forwards* - hitting the windscreen first. It doesn't bounce forwards through an open drivers-side window, *reverse* it's momentum and move forward through the windscreen?

It possibly fell off the back of a car travelling in the same direction and bounced through the window there. But in general it's just a bit damn weird.

Don’t think a sticker will fix the damage.

The cycle is believed to have come loose from a vehicle travelling on the opposite carriageway.

So my guess it snapped bouncing across the carriageway and the handlebars went through the windowscreen.

The wheel of the bike has come through her open drivers side window and smashed *outward* through the windscreen leaving the handlebars inside and the frame of the bike outside of the car.

The bars have gone through the windscreen from the front and the rest of the bike snapped off as it got wrenched along the side of the car at 70mph.

If the wheel had come through the window and then spun to get the bars lined up with the hole in the glass that would've taken her head off!

It managed to bend the steering wheel as well 😲
Assuming a closing speed of c.120-140 mph. Scary stuff indeed.

If I hadn't stayed in town to go to a gig on Friday I would have been on that bit of the M9 at that time. On my motorbike 🥺

So my guess it snapped bouncing across the carriageway and the handlebars went through the windowscreen.

Yup, you can clearly see the hole the bars punched out in the first picture

I saw another one today on the Edinburgh City Bypass. A car going eastbound had a bike mounted on a roof carrier facing the rear of the car. The rear wheel tiedown had failed and the rear wheel was up in the air, the frame clamp still attached, as was the front wheel, although twisted about 45 deg to the side as the rear was forced into the air. Seconds from disaster. It looked well sketchy, but I doubt the driver knew anything about it, and I saw (very briefly) no evidence of alarm from any other drivers - flashing lights etc.

Check everything is tight. Twice. And then once more for luck. Actually luck shouldn't come into it, but check again anyway.

Looking at the photo the front end of the bike has parted company from the main triangle at the head tube and this has gone through the windscreen bars first.
The rest of the bike is probably further down the road somewhere.

However this happened, this is the reason I choose to drive a van and the bike goes inside.

wouldn’t go near anything that didn’t properly lock to the toe bar or built in roof bars.

My bike goes inside the car, but I have got an old strap type Halfords rack.. my (or anyone else’s ) bike has never come close to falling off when I have used it (including driving to the Alps). That’s because I’m not a moron and always ensure it’s properly secure.