Guess who forgot to do their bonnet up properly. Nothing like a morning blast to work with a bonnet sailing past your head to wake you up!!

Been there, done that! I got half a lap in!

Glad you are out in your car today!

Mike

Morning,

It didnt half wakeup the poor woman walking her dog down the side of the road. Lol.

its the excuse i need to order a few new parts.

Thats odd; I had a dream about that last night!

adrian

a woman walking a dog? was she nice

No idea what you mean...

just be glad it didn't just swing up and whack you on the head

Join the exclusive club.

The people who haven't had it happen are really, really jealous of us

Steve

You'd have to be really really daft to do it a 2nd time anyway.

I only managed it the once myself!!

I've had a front corner flapping at 70mph - that concentrates the mind...

7 years and I've never done it yet! now I've said that wait for the post in the next day or so

Errrm me too. Mine flew off in my road and the Vicar who lives a few hundred yards away picked it up for me

Very embarassing. Now wheres that T-cut

Paul

My first ever qually session for my first race, and i go and forget my bonnet pins!

not a 7 but my trusty old pug 205

http://www.johneturbo.co.uk/oops.wmv

Doh

[Edited on 9/5/08 by Johneturbo]

Hapenned to me on the way back from Stoneleigh. Going along minding my own business on the a14 to harwich when all of a sudden the bonnet flew up wacked me on the head (Yet another reason for a helmet in the seven) and landed in the middle of the road.

Fortunately for me Gert was a good distance behind me and the road was almost empty so it didnt hit anything else on its way down.

It snapped a couple of those rubbed SVA clippy things. The irony is I forked out for aerocatches at the weekend because i never trusted those rubber ones in the first place.

interesting, i never trusted those SVA rubber catches, my bonnet kept coming loose on the motorways on long journeys, resulting in frantic passenger waving and immediate hard shoulder entry!!!

In the end i purchased these and am yet to have any problems;






I can very much recommend them, cheap off ebay too

My bonnet and nosecone are all one piece and hinged under radiator. For good measure, there's also a couple of bits of steel wire attached to bonnet and chassis (which have the dual purpose of keeping nose off floor when bonnet open, and hopefully preventing the bonnet coming off if hinges fail

ATB

Simon