Posting from my phome so ill try and make it easy.
Yea I took the bike racks off whenn my car had some stuff done to it, tbelt water pump etc.. then haven't put them back on because I need to upgrade and get ones that lock onto the rack, my current ones don't and I'm scared they will get stolen.
As far as vancouver canada...yea there's one there too.
But I live in vancouver, washington its a common mistake.
Its pretty common for people to think I don't use it but it was spendy i. Use it lol. I pass a blue em1 daily who just has the first bar and the fairing for a roof rack, confuses the sh it outta me. Maybe he got it half off.