MK79

Hey,

I'd like to see pictures of Bike Racks installed to a hatchback car. Interested to see how pedals is. I have an Yaris 2006 model and installed bike rack but pedals are hitting car too much. Haven't really gone driving because of this.

So i'd like to see how you guys have it done.

fietsbob

decades ago I had a 68 Saab 96,, used a Yakima Roof rack for it,
they, cars, had rain gutters back then ..

because the rack crossbars were round , 1 on the back of the top, the other gripped the edges of the hatchback

so I could open it with the bike on it.. extruded aluminum wheel trays connected the 2 cross bars

cameras used film then too , so my snapshots are not online..


Miss that old car..

https://www.yakima.com/
they have changed in 30 years , as have car designs..

Thule did not use round crossbars...






....

Steve B.

PaulRivers

When I was using a Saris Bones you needed to put the arms "up" more which kept the bike further away from the car. If you did that no pedal issues. Pic I found via google image search:


If you have a cheaper rack that does not have "anti sway" pieces you might need a new rack.

MK79

We don't have beer foam in finland but i got your point anyways. Not a bad idea

sdmc530

You won't like this but back in the ay when I was VERY poor I had the same set up. Sorry no pictures but I actually would take the pedals off so it wouldn't hit anything. It was a pain but it did work. My bike and rack was worth more than the car( and that wasnt' much either). I think I was more concerned about damage to my bike than the car!

BobbyG

I wish I would have thought of that when I had used a trunk-mounted carrier on my Subaru sedan. I did use a bungies to keep the pedals from turning, and the bike from swaying..

JonathanGennick 

My approach (photo below) is to Gorilla-tape some cardboard to the part of the trunk where the pedals hit. It is a solution born out of desperation the first time I tried to hang three bikes from the rack. It's too easy to forgot to position the pedals precisely, and my car's paint has suffered some pedal-dings over the years. My rack has three positions, and I always use the outermost one when I'm by myself. I try to avoid more than one friend at a time, so that I can avoid using the innermost position.

MK79

That is about the same i'm using now and seems working fine enough. However, Steve B mentioned about idea using foam on pedal wchich seems to be nice idea. Going to try it as soon i get pece of it

Thx to all for replies! Think i'm going to buy a new rack next summer

dedhed

Surely they have pipe insulation. https://www.homedepot.com/b/Plumbing...n/N-5yc1vZbuy9
I'm not seeing nice thick koozies. https://www.korpiklaanishop.com/epag...er%20Koozie%22
https://www.shopturbojugend.net/Turb...3_7869405.aspx

dedhed

I always used to let it hit on the license plate rather than the paint.

JonathanGennick 

Not sure why I didn't go that same way. Maybe I didn't want to scratch my plate. There may also have been constraints w/the bikes I was loading when I first began using the cardboard. It was when I was loading up three hardtail mountain bikes at a time. That was like putting together a three-dimensional puzzle. We had to carefully rotate each pedal to align with "whitespace" on the adjacent bikes. I remember having to put gorilla tape on down tubes and on fork stanchions, taking care to keep our pinned pedals from scraping those items, shoving cardboard in all sorts of places to prevent damage, having to thread pedals between spokes of adjacent bikes, having to put Gorilla Tape over the pedal pins, and sometimes we'd miss something and end up with damage anyway. Then the whole mass of bikes would of course bounce up and down on that rear rack for an hour each way. Life is so much easier now that I'm usually just putting one bike on instead of three.

Elvo

MK79

Yeah we have foam, just bit in other stuffs than beer

PaulRivers

This is not the best picture but I couldn't find a better one of an antisway guard on a bike rack:


The attachment at the bottom of the pic where it wraps around the frame keeps the bike from swaying forward or backwards more than an inch or two.