So yesterday we're loading bikes on top of my car, using 3 King Cobras. Two are facing forward, the middle one facing backward. Because my car is narrow, the racks are a little closer together than I'd like, but it works ok. Normally I just run 2 racks, one forward and one backward. That works great.
So we put Zombie's RM9 in the middle, because it weighs like 50 lbs. Then Tweek's Bullit on one side and my AS-X on the other. Loading my AS-X was a pain in the ass, because my bars were hitting Tweek's. I had to tie a sock to my bar to keep from getting Tweek's bar all scratched up. In the midst of all the screwing around, I forgot to secure the bolt on the front of the King Cobra that my bike was in. Basically the wheelstrap was holding the bike to the car.
Off we went down the road, and it started raining (at least it waited until we left!). I'm cruising along at about 45 when I hear the dreaded noise. Look in the rearview and see my beloved Yeti bouncing down the road with a full size pickup bearing down on it on wet roads.
Somehow the first few cars manage to miss the bike, and a Sherriff happened to be sitting nearby. He pulled up to the bike and turned on his lights while I was backing up. When I got there he had my bike off the road, just handed it to me and was like "you lost one"
Giving the bike a look-over, the bar ends have some scratches. The bars have some scratches. The pedals are scratched, and the rear skewer is scratched. Nothing bent, nothing broken, nothing dented. No damage to the car either, I have NO idea how the hell that bike got off the car and made all that noise without trashing the car.
So anyway, I got extremely lucky, and a cop sitting there doing nothing but generating revenue saved my $3000 bike. Eat that cop haters.
So we put Zombie's RM9 in the middle, because it weighs like 50 lbs. Then Tweek's Bullit on one side and my AS-X on the other. Loading my AS-X was a pain in the ass, because my bars were hitting Tweek's. I had to tie a sock to my bar to keep from getting Tweek's bar all scratched up. In the midst of all the screwing around, I forgot to secure the bolt on the front of the King Cobra that my bike was in. Basically the wheelstrap was holding the bike to the car.
Off we went down the road, and it started raining (at least it waited until we left!). I'm cruising along at about 45 when I hear the dreaded noise. Look in the rearview and see my beloved Yeti bouncing down the road with a full size pickup bearing down on it on wet roads.
Somehow the first few cars manage to miss the bike, and a Sherriff happened to be sitting nearby. He pulled up to the bike and turned on his lights while I was backing up. When I got there he had my bike off the road, just handed it to me and was like "you lost one"
Giving the bike a look-over, the bar ends have some scratches. The bars have some scratches. The pedals are scratched, and the rear skewer is scratched. Nothing bent, nothing broken, nothing dented. No damage to the car either, I have NO idea how the hell that bike got off the car and made all that noise without trashing the car.
So anyway, I got extremely lucky, and a cop sitting there doing nothing but generating revenue saved my $3000 bike. Eat that cop haters.
good new man, that always scares the shat out of me! 
I am SO glad that nothing bad happend! You are lucky and I will add checking to make sure you have your bike thoroughly strapped down to my list of things to do when you all leave 
Yeah dat...
