Originally Posted by badsac
Don't knwo if I should ask in here or start my own, but I'll try here anyway. What, besides hitting your bike on low objects are the downsides for both the bike and the car to putting your bike on a removable roof rack?
I have heard of the bike coming lose and or the wind yanking it off a roof rack, but things like that and hitting a bump can happen to any rack I would think.
I priced out a roof rack and it came to well over $400 for everything I would need for it. Roof rack also generate alot of wind noise when on the highway. A hitch rack does not. Also I can see the hitsh/trunk rack in my rearview mirror.
Hitch and trunk rack are easy because you do not have to lift the bike very high to put them on the rack.