[s-cars] Bike rack recommendations?

[Rosenthal Lee - lrosen]

I agree with Lee.  I travel appx. 400 miles several times a year with 2-3
bikes and a roof box on my Thule roof rack.  I used to use a frame lock and
was concerned about too much movement of the bikes on the roof.  Switched to
fork locks and get 0 movement.

I also have wheel carriers that go on the Thule bars - you lock your quick
release hubs into the carriers and the wheels are good to go.

I've also noticed that removing the seats makes a noticeable noise
difference, FWIW.


Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Levitt [mailto:lee at wheelman.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:25 PM
To: Aaron; auditechni at yahoo.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Bike rack recommendations?



Aaron writes:
>
> I can highly recommend these guys -
> Sportworks.com
> It is by far the best slickest rack system available as you dont need to
> remove your bikes wheel.

Personally, I'm biased towards removing the wheel, for a couple of reasons:

1 - the bike is lower, which makes it less likely to whack something
2 - the bike is lower, so there's less stress on the mounting points (I'll
let you mechanical engineers explain why)
3 - the fork mount is more stable than the wheel mount

It doesn't take that long to pop off a wheel...the only PITA is then
stashing the wheel somewhere. I stash mine in Campagnolo wheelbags and shove
them in on top of the wife's fine clothing.

Did have a tube explode in a hot car one day. Car was closed, sun was hot,
wheel was fully inflated. Then it wasn't. :(

I also have a bra-like device that i use to keep the bugs off the front of
the bike and the grease in the headset. Looks kinda weird - black spandex
etc.

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant
'92 Colnago Spiral Conic SLX
'01 Colnago Crystal
'92 Brian Rourke 'cross bike
'88 Francisco Moser
'87 Wicked Fat Chance
'82 Condor Cycles

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