Bike flies off roof carrier at 70mph - pics

[astroarcadia]

A friend of mine lost his bike whilst travelling home at the weekend. Placed his bike in the jaws of the Thule roof carrier but forgot to wind the clamp up and tie down the wheels in the ratchet straps. Made it onto a dual carriageway and presumably got up to speed when the wind caught it and off it flew. Ended up in the storm ditch on the verge and thank goodness nobody else was involved or hurt.

Bike is a 2016 Canyon CF SLX on Sram Red. His LBS has checked it over an said there is no sign of damage to frame but the bars, pedals rear mech all took a hit as you can see below.

Question is what would you do about the carbon (frame/forks)?

[astroarcadia]

Agreed. We also spoke about the what if's?

[astroarcadia]

Good advice people, thanks.

The bike in question has had new rear mech fitted and my friend is planning to collect it tomorrow ahead of a long cycling weekend in the Pyrenees!

That will be as good a test as any!