[bluebug32]

At the beginning of the summer I bought a nice new (and expensive) Yakima bike rack for the trunk of my car. I come out from the grocery store today only to find that some cum-guzzling asshat had cleanly cut through 2 of the 6 straps and somehow removed the other 2 from inside my truck. I get to my car and it looks like the remains of a present that ws open with straps dangling from my car. Bastards... Who does this sort of thing!?! Thank goodness my bike wasn't on the back....

 

[rpk1988]

I dont get it. Explain in further detail.

 

[TreeSaw]

WOAH! I would check with the store and see if they have any sort of cameras on the parking lot...maybe they caught the asshat!

 

[bluebug32]

I dont get it. Explain in further detail.

The trunk carrier attaches to the trunk via straps with hooks that go inside the trunk on the bottom, on the top and on the side. Someone cut the straps and tried to take it!

 

[bluebug32]

WOAH! I would check with the store and see if they have any sort of cameras on the parking lot...maybe they caught the asshat!

Yeah, good idea. I wonder if they would care though.

 

[rpk1988]

The trunk carrier attaches to the trunk via straps with hooks that go inside the trunk on the bottom, on the top and on the side. Someone cut the straps and tried to take it!

Ohhh, man I am a freakin' idiot. I work at a bike shop and install those all time and I still can't get an image of what you were talking about. But now I do. Have no fear.

 

[bluebug32]

Ohhh, man I am a freakin' idiot. I work at a bike shop and install those all time and I still can't get an image of what you were talking about. But now I do. Have no fear.

Cool. I promise not to tell your shop

and..ummm...any chance of getting ahold of two replacement straps? Do they sell those??

 

[Skookum]

Yah cum-guzzling asshats... it takes them a few seconds to realize there's no such thing as an invisible bike, but by then they've cut half of the straps of a typical trunk mount.

 

[chicodude]

So did the rack itself get jacked?

 

[Wumpus]

So did the rack itself get jacked?

Wonder what she is going to do with the replacement straps...

and..ummm...any chance of getting ahold of two replacement straps? Do they sell those??

 

[Wumpus]

Cool. I promise not to tell your shop

and..ummm...any chance of getting ahold of two replacement straps? Do they sell those??

Superjoe -- http://www.yakima.com/tech_manual/view_part_list.asp?part=4240

Mightyjoe -- http://yakima.com/tech_manual/view_part_list.asp?part=4238

 

[Cooter Brown]

invest in a trunk monkey with a sawed off 12 gauge, they work wonders for that kind of stupid bullschit

 

[bluebug32]

Thanks, everyone. The one thing I guess I can be thankful for is that they didn't take the rack itself. I wish I could just bolt the thing to my car or hire a midget to sit on the trunk and guard it...j/k

 

[blt2ride]

Thanks, everyone. The one thing I guess I can be thankful for is that they didn't take the rack itself. I wish I could just bolt the thing to my car or hire a midget to sit on the trunk and guard it...j/k

"Say hello to my little friend."

Seriously, you just can't trust people. You need to take the rack off when there is not bike on it. I hate to say it, but there is no other option. I bet the person who tried to take it didn't even have a bike, but decided to try to steal, because it was there...scumbag!

 

[stinkyboy]

It's God trying to take care of you. He's seen you ride.

 

[McGRP01]

It's God trying to take care of you. He's seen you ride.

Bwahaha!!

 

[bluebug32]

It's God trying to take care of you. He's seen you ride.

Yeah, probably....or my mom who is constantly worrying that I'm going to break my noggin on the trail

 

[rpk1988]

Cool. I promise not to tell your shop

and..ummm...any chance of getting ahold of two replacement straps? Do they sell those??

Thanks.

Not usually. I wouldn't know because we sell Thule and Saris only. Haha.

 

[robdamanii]

"Say hello to my little friend."

Seriously, you just can't trust people. You need to take the rack off when there is not bike on it. I hate to say it, but there is no other option. I bet the person who tried to take it didn't even have a bike, but decided to try to steal, because it was there...scumbag!

Sure there is. Get ahold of some of that wire ribbon (same stuff they use to ground engine blocks to car frames) and reattach that rack with those. Watch those pricks cut through that.

 

[mcA896]

get a real nice shiny new Bones rack, then go back to the same supermarket. wait in the trunk, and when they come, piss all over 'em! case closed. damn, why am i so e-happy tonight?

 

[rpk1988]

Would that be the Saris Bones 2 or Saris Bones 3. They are equally nice.

 

[mcA896]

either bones 2 or 3 would provide sufficient results.