My first road bike experience - fingers crossed it can only get better!

Ouch!!!  I feel your pain .

hope we see you soon at team mk,despite terrible start,imagine all of us have done something similar at some point in our lives,i know i have!

So sorry, Michael.

Please come back to us!

I forgot to tell you how I nearly wrote someone else's road bike off twice in the same evening as I hadn't tightended the straps on the rack properly. Once is silly but twice, well...

Nightmare!!!!!

Michael

I broke a frame and these where great. www.carboncyclerepairs.co.uk it may be worth a call.People told me it couldnt be repaired but these explained how a frame is made and how they would repair it.

If its in a carrier bag you may get a sympathetic ear from Trek direct on the price of a replacement frame.

I guess it wasent thunder I heard from your direction it was you venting your frustration.

Mick

Hopefully there'll be a fix or a good price frame to keep you going.  It was nice to meet and we look forward to having you back with an even shinier bike and no roof rack!

I have a bike you could borrow in the meantime if you like

Michael, I can totally relate to your pain.

Last summer we had packed the car to go on a camping holiday complete with two bikes on the roof. 

On the way to the campsite in Wales, I popped into my parents place while Ruth (my wife) drove to the local Waitrose store to top up with food. Unfortunately she managed to get the car wedged underneath the overhead barrier at the entrance to their carpark. Not able to move forward or back she provided great enrertainment to the car drivers stuck in the queue to get in the car park as they watched her having to disentangle bike bits from the Waitrose sign before beating a hasty retreat.

When she got back and told me what had happened I couldnt relate to how she could have driven straight into the barrier knowing two bikes were on the roof. The holiday that followed included a lot of comment  from a husband that couldnt let the subject drop and couldnt understand how it could have happened, obviously as a superior driver nothing like that could happen to me !  .

A couple of weeks after we returned from holiday I put my new bike on the roof drove Ruth to the start of her relay leg in a race that started near the botlle dump roundabout ( I was going to cycle alongside her) , we were late, my mind was elsewhere and when I turned into the car park there was an enormous crash and through my rear view mirror I could see my nice new bike in bits on the road behind me. I hadnt even noticed the huge iron height barrier at the entrance to the car park.

Moral of the story, what goes around comes around and get rid of the roof bars and get a rack that sits on the back of the car just like the one I now have.

Did this years ago at a Motorway toll station, but pretty minor. Can do similar  if they are wider than the car and they are on the back of the car, where you have the opportunity to reverse into things as well.

Answer... Get a nice van to carry your pride and joy about in.

Do feel your pain though, did the same to my daughters bike at Netto in Wolverton