What do you reckon. My 2008 RRD board left the roofrack at 100kph and flipped down the road.javascript:insertsmilie('') It was in aerotech travel bag. Now my mate picked it up from the side of the road for me and its at his place. We haven't opened the bag yet and i haven seen the state of the bag yet.
What you reckon, has the board survived javascript:insertsmilie('')or is it a bag of foam and carbonjavascript:insertsmilie(''). I'm off to pick it up today and let you know tonight.

Could go either way - I have a mate who lost his 2010 board on hume Hwy at 110kph and it didn't even have a scratch - but I lost my board off the roof once and it was very smashed up (nose and along the rail). I think it all depends on how it lands... Will be a lucky dip - hope it goes well!

remember chatting with a guy at sandy point about someone who tied board down with occpy straps and lost it one the westgate bridge in melbourne. It was written up in old australian windsurfing mag. Got stuck on the rafters sticking out. Paid 1 slab of beer for guys to collect it. Old bombora... not a scratch. It ended up being him. Luck i kept my mouth shut about "what kind of idiot would tie down with occy's"

well it's got damage all round . Its repairable but its only last years board and lightweight so an insurance claim hopefully.
Was hoping for no damage as the bag isn't scuffed. Claim will take a while i expect.

Board was strapped on with proper straps as i've done a 1000 times before so not to sure what happen.

Sorry to hear it was damaged peguin

hahaha the exhaust

I made an exhaust once out of the old 2 3/4" round heavy tubing they used for street signs. Put it in a Gemini I got for $50 with no motor, and an ex rally car motor from a mate for free.

The weld let go about the gearbox area and when it hit the road on the freeway it dug in. Exited under back of the car, car jumped a foot in the air and I looked in the mirror to see it pole vauling down the road. Not pretty at the tail end of peak hour and plenty of cars on the road.

Lost one board from a campervan years ago coming back from a session on a French lake. People passed us on the highway pointing our roof, I looked and only one board was left. The guys told us that we had lost it just at the last traffic light and some people were taking it off the middle of the road.
We came back and never found it ! Got nicked !
But the worse was the insurance who didn't pay for the claim, as it was my friend's car AND board. They would have paid if it was MY board.
May be check with your insurance before you do your claim.

Speaking of things falling off the roof, I was at a local hardware store one weekend. No, not Bunnings, where you'd expect this kind of thing to happen. Anyway, I saw an older guy in a suit tying sheets of ply onto a dodgy roofrack. The suit was the first warning sign, and the way he was tying it the second. He was only tying it side to side, and not front to back as well. I just watched him for a while and thought to myself- this is going to last about 100m before it falls off - should be good for a laugh. So I decided to follow in the direction the guy had gone after I'd bought what I needed, rather than go the short way home.

Sure enough, first set of traffic lights, the traffic was banked up. I was eventually able to catch up as I was in the left hand turning lane. He'd put on the brakes and the sheets had slid over each other and onto his bonnet. The guy was at the front of the car trying to push them back onto the roof, but they were pretty heavy and they just kept sliding back onto the bonnet. So I got my laugh.

But then I thought I'd be a right prick to predict the catastrphe, have it come true, get a laugh and leave the guy in his predicament, so I thought I'd better turn left to do a lap around the block and come and help him. But because of the traffic jam he'd created, it took ages before I could park and get back to the scene. By this time, someone else had helped him get the load back and tie it on. At least I'd tried.

So the moral here is beware of suits at the hardware store. And how did I know the sheets were likely to slide off? We'll I can hardly embarrass myself by saying it was from personal past experience, could I

ka43 said...

Hey Mark,
I think your retarded friend "Red Thumb Boy" is following you and red thumbing normal every day comments, very weird!!!!!!!!!
Larko.

Yes.... knob head red thumbed you also so I evened it up