Road Bike in the boot

[Stuart Truman]

A month or so back on the A14 near Cambridge on a Sunday morning a people carrier with three bikes on the roof came by at speed in the outside lane. A mile or so up the road a rather nice mountain bike was laying on the grass verge and the bloke in the vehicle was walking back towards it. Imagine the carnage and damage it could have caused to other vehicles if it had come loose whilst in the outside lane. :?

Driving back to Vegas from a hike last week, we came across a Jetski in the central reservation!

 

[deka]

Are you a mamil (middle aged man in Lycra)?

 

[tomscott]

So it's not possible I'm doing the Virgin Money Cyclone next weekend was hoping to get my Scott CR1 in the boot of the M

 

[TitanTim]

Why not cycle to where you have to go to? On second thoughts dump it in the car, the less cyclists on the road the better in my book :x

Tim.

 

[inkey$]

Yeah you could use your hatch to transport your bike but its much more fun using the Zed. Just make sure you secure it properly, thats all. If you dont then its like any other car rack and your own fault.

You obviously don't leave your car unattended, at a motorway service station for example, then? :?

Not really. If in a convoy then somebody can hang about. If not then I'd either not stop at all or stop somewhere smaller so it's in view. Easy. Oh, and lock the bike to the frame of course. Easy x2.

 

[ewwimbledon]

Why not cycle to where you have to go to? On second thoughts dump it in the car, the less cyclists on the road the better in my book :x

Tim.

Agree. They annoy me when driving and when walking. Should be banned especially in London. The boris bikes needs to go too.

 

[TitanTim]

Why not cycle to where you have to go to? On second thoughts dump it in the car, the less cyclists on the road the better in my book :x

Tim.

Agree. They annoy me when driving and when walking. Should be banned especially in London. The boris bikes needs to go too.

I'm not anti cyclist, I have a bike but not a death wish to use main roads. I do feel they shouldn't be on the road these days, along with horse riders, danger to themselves and motorists, the Gov't should levy a cycle tax if they want to use roads

Tim.

 

[Pabs]

Nice to know you can get a cycle rack for the z4 coupe. Would love to see the faces of those in my cycling club if I turned up in the z4 rather than the v50.
With respects to bikes falling off bike racks, iv regularly tow 3 mountain bikes on a Thule rack. Probably got well over 10,000 miles in last three years. They don't fall out.
Either the rack if faulty or the person loading it.


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[Sketchley]

Guys I'm not going to bite on the cycle stuff well perhaps I an.... My work commute takes an hour by bike, an hour 15 by public transport and over two hours by car in london for 16miles each way. It's not the bikes that slow the cars downs its other cars. You might be saying get rid of bikes but if all the cyclists got in thier cars instead how more traffic would you be stuck in? Surely what you really want is for most car drivers to stop driving and use a bikes then roads would have much less traffic and you could enjoy the zed more. Bike horse etc are banned from some roads they are called motorways. Also we all pay vehicle excise duty on out c ars a tax on emission, if cyclists had to pay this it would be £0 as no emmisions just like a gwiz or many other exempt cars.... plus I pay ved on three cars anyway and often use a bike rather tgab drive so I do pay tax!

Btw didn't try the bike in the boot took the focus, today focus is on tip duty, its clocking up more miles than the zed this weekend.

 

[panthro]

I dont understand half the replies in this thread. Whats wrong with putting a cycle rack on a car? How else are you supposed to transport your bike if its your only car!? Providing you have properly secured it, its insured and you don't do stupid speeds down the motorway in it I see no problem.

I'm going to buy a Sentinel this weekend for my Z4. Shame the Bones doesn't fit as it seems better built, but as long as I can carry my bike to and from trail centres and single track I'm happy!

 

[Sketchley]

Having transported just the wheels last night to the wheelbuilder. I can safely say a road bike won't fit in the boot unless seriously dismantled even then it might not even go.

@panthro, I think part of the problem with the e89 is that the manual says not to mount anything on boot lid or roof as it might damage the roof mechanism. e85 might be different.

 

[ronk]

------ Imagine the carnage and damage it could have caused to other vehicles if it had come loose whilst in the outside lane. :?

I've been a victim of that very scenario - My entire family were in the car when I rolled it at 70mph trying to avoid a roof rack full of junk.