RobbieTunes

The LeCar is an excellent training device: it doesn't accelerate well enough to drop a rider who wishes to draft under the upraised hatch. We just had to be careful not to get off the gas pedal quickly...my bud Barry.

roccobike

Yeah, but it's French which means it's got all those funny sized bolts and threads and nothing Japanese or English or American fits it correctly. I'll even bet you had to modify the bike rack just to get it to fit.

thirdgenbird

ive got a regular cab 2005 f150 with a home made locking bike rack in the bed. the best part of the regular cab fords is there is plenty of room behind the seats for front wheels and gear.

this thread is about the antithesis of the thread over at A&S. i really just need to stay out of S&A and car free living. you just cant reason with a few of the posters over there.

Wogster

A bicycle? All of my rides start at home.... Always thought it kinda silly to drive a long distance to ride a short distance.....

RobbieTunes

Planning a workout for several different people to take part in, only a few in my area are really within an easy ride to the staging area, and logistically, it's a lot easier to just drive there and pick up whomever is going. Group rides are almost never within 30 miles of here.

I live 12 miles from the local staging area. I'm too old and don't often have the time to add 24 miles to the group's distance. Such is rural living.

I've kind of got a thing against taking front wheels off on a regular basis. Call it superstition.

Rabid Koala

A 2009 Ford F-150 Lariat with air conditioned seats for after the ride. It has a cross bed rack that will hold 3 bikes.

conspiratemus1

Don't forget ingenuity.

shopgirl

I live close enough that I can usually just leave from my house for rides. But if I do need to drive, I have my mom's old Corolla. I wasn't able to afford a Yakima roof rack until recently, so for a long time it was a fight to just get one bike in the car. Now I can carry two bikes, and I have a surfboard rack up there too, just in case I get inspired to drive out to the coast.
I almost got a 1992 Previa instead, but the AC was so old and worn out that it needed repair basically every summer. I have my eye out for another one though, just because I'd really prefer to carry everything inside the car.

phillyrider

Are those heliocomatic wheels in the back?

michael k

Poetry.

03 Toyota 4Runner fit 4 bikes on the the swinging hitch mount rack but still makes it difficult to open the rear hatch.Yakima roof racks coming soon.

sjpitts 

72 Landcruiser. FJ55 to be precise. It certainly has enough gutter mount racks. Currently in my brother's possession, but I retain the right to buy it back.

Fasteryoufool

We have an '07 Mazda5... or rather, the OL has it. I don't drive anymore. She's getting a rack put on in the next couple of weeks.

Road Fan

John Muir ("How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive; a Manual for the Compleat Idiot") is smiling down on you!

bradtx

I had to think about this...every car I've owned, and I've sold and traded off a few I shouldn't have, has had a bicycle rack of one type or another since 1973. Most unusual looking was a '69 427 'Vette roadster with a bumper mount. For now I've racks to fit my two toy cars plus a F250 which is the only practical transport for the Santana. I pondered about a rack for one of the motorcycles, but it never quite looked right in mock ups and after seeing a couple of motorcycles with bicycle racks, well...I did good not to go beyond the initial design stages!

Brad

Bikedued

Thanks. I inherited it from my Dad in July 2003, I got it fixed up and running over the fall, and in March of 04 it popped a freeze plug. It then sat for almost six years. Last October I began to bring it back up to snuff. There were many coolant leaks, to the point where it felt like it was cursed. Thankfully Dodge 360's are pretty much indestructible. I found that out by driving it four miles back home with no coolant whatsoever. It still ran great after that incident, though it cooked the valve cover gaskets. Now that the radiator(full aluminum), water pump, hoses, and freeze plugs are new, it seems to be cooling and holding it's water. It's quite dependable, actually. Once you look past the 11mpg everything is juuuust fine, lol. I am on a bike lately anyway, unless it's pouring, or going somewhere I need four wheels and cargo carrying ability.

I was thinking about the irony of the Marines sticker on a French car, hehe.,,,,BD

tcs

tcs

gbalke

Back in the day, my wife and I would haul our bikes on a trunk mounted rack attached to our '73 4 cylinder Pinto Hatchback. Generally speaking, the car had enough power to suit me, but with the bikes on the rack, I really noticed the drag. it was really slooooow.

We have a 2008 6 cyl Sante Fe now and use a hitch mounted 3 bike rack. Plenty of power. Added bonus is that I can carry two bikes in the rear of the vehicle if I need to using fork mounts I attached to a 1 x 6 plank.

rccardr 

Long trips = wife's Lexus RX 330 with a Saris Bones rack. Holds two bikes nicely, cruises at 75, still gets in the mid-high 20's.

If I'm just heading 10-15 miles to a staging area or doing general bike-ish hauling, I use the Mk4 GTI. Easy to fold the seats down, drop the front wheel and slide a bike in there, but if there are two of us the Bones fits it too. Also will hold six (count 'em!) freshly powder coated frames & matching forks at one time

rat fink

Up until recently, they would go in the trunk of one of these:





Both are 1975 / 1976 Camaro w/ 350 engines and lots of go-fast parts.

If I am picking up a big haul, I will use this, but it's usually reserved for towing vehicles, helping people move, and bringing home treasure from CL:







1975 Chevrolet C-35 (w/ every towing accessory known to man)


Well, I got tired of paying more for gas in a month than a family of eight would spend on food in a year. So, I got myself a new daily driver:



1989 Volvo 760 Turbo Intercooled

I usually take the fron wheel off and put them in the trunk. I have a trunk rack, but trunk racks scare me. My mother and my best friend both got rear ended, within a day of each other, a few weeks ago. Two days after my mother's car got of the shop, she got rear ended again! Not to mention, I got backed into at the LBS the other day. People around here don't know how to drive.

RobbieTunes

I have that book in spiral notebook form. Great illustrations.

Bianchigirll 

I agree. I did have a full sized company van once that was better, the minivan aka "swagger wagon" , is hard to beat. I don't like to do so but if need be you can really pack them in too, and still have seating for three.

Glennfordx4

My 701/2 Rally Sport was to much a pain to haul anything in except A$$ lol.

southpawboston

well, we have a tiny mazda3 5-door hatchback. we manage to transport our family of four and four bikes, with luggage. we have a yakima roof rack with 2 bike attachments and a huge cargo platform, and a thule box-hitch bike rack that holds up to 4 bikes. and we get 30mpg to boot...

Grim

Ok now we are tossing up some iron. I will hopefully be putting the 400 into my 70 Drop top LeMans Sport in the next few months. I guess I may have to make a Bike rack like the one on Lances Livestrong 70 Drop top GTO. I use to jam my Peugeot in the truck of it.

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Elev12k

Yes, they are. Besides the SAAB 900 I could imagine going with a Volvo 245. Tasty: A Citroen DS Break/Safari, but they aren't as built as the 900 and 245 are.

For small fun car I would opt for modern Lotus Elise or classic Europa. They are clever designed cars. James Bond's Esprit had a rack for waterskis fitted on the back and it would be cool and helpfull if such for bikes would be available on the Elise. No idea whether it is.

I do like Land- or Range Rovers, but I never go off road plus given their dimensions and weight their luggage carrying capacity is not so impressive.

If I had serious money to spend I would buy a Bristol.

If money was no issue I would like a Bugatti. Not for bike carrying however, so this a bit off subject.