Bike transport: I might be failing the qualifier.
Long story short, our family of four got mountain bikes recently, and trails at Flatwoods and Alafia are great fun, but I am failing at bike transport. In the last month, I have gotten a front hydraulic disc brake stuck because my kids played with the levers, and I didn’t know to put a card in the calipers. I broke a $50 front thru axle because I didn’t have a torque wrench to reinstall the front wheel and got it wrong. I scratched up an air fork from bikes making too much contact. I *almost* lost a bike on the Interstate 75 when the straps broke on my old hanging rack on our VW. So yesterday, I got a 2” hitch on our newer 2021 car, and last night, we installed a better platform bike rack. That was supposed to solve the problem and get us to Santos this weekend without drama. This morning, I got trapped in my own driveway due to the emergency braking, which I cannot figure out how to turn off. Alarms keep going off and the car won’t reverse more than six inches. This mom might be failing the real qualifier.