Costliest Brainfart

@jastralfu

Ok. I think you get a pass on driving into your garage with a bike on the roof.

I bought one and the first time I drove home with it on (no bike). I got to the garage and looked at it and thought, there is no possible way sooner or later I am not going to forget and drive in. It, was an absolute certainty. I thought of mounting a mirror above the garage door.

Eventually I did, drive in. But it was really slowly and damage was minimum… to my $5,000 bike. This was 25 years ago. I would have been really sad if I damaged it.

Don't bring your system to the peak of improvement. the higher you bring it, the heavier it will CRUSH!

@ghdprentice 

I had my concerns about it but I suppose was arrogant enough to believe it wouldn't happen.  The roof rack came off after that.  I transported the new one in the back of my hatchback till I bought a tow hitch mounted carrier.  It's all a learning curve.  Thankfully I was able to replace the bike.  I'm not sure how much has changed in hi-end audio in the last 25 years (I'm a bit of a newbie) but I'm assuming its been a lot, certainly with digital front ends.  Bikes are the same way, the new fun suspension bike is night and day better. But, I sure did love the previous one.

@audiodwebe 

Sorry that happened to you.  Chalk it up to hard lessons learned.  Hopefully you can fix it or replace it with something even better!

It's just stuff so it's not really that important.  It's not like anyone here knocked down a section of the Great Wall...

I knocked the cantilever off of a Clearaudio Concerto V2.  
After I heard a “pop” in the speakers, I looked at the cartridge with nothing protruding from it, and yelled like Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men when his precious “Green Hornet” fishing pole gets pulled into the ice hole.