Seasuckers!

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Bufort

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Hey,

I'm about to buy a Coupe and was wondering if anyone else on here uses a Seasucker to carry bikes on their roof? The 1 bike holder should be fine, but I was wondering if the roof bulges would be in the way of the 2 bike holder which has a line of 4 suckers.
 
skelters said:
Here's a thread on the Seasucker...
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Yeh thats the single one, whereas the two bike one looks like this:
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I like the idea of a Seasucker because its quick to take off and small to store.
 
In principle I like the idea of the seasucker and it works very well as a bike carrier.
It’s also incredibly strong as demonstrated by their bike mounted on a nascar racer video.
However, for me therein lies the potential caveat; all that localised pressure can’t be good for any cars’ paint/laquer, let alone on thinner gauge steel or aluminium.
I’d be too scared of the lateral loading around the edge of the base of the seasucker and the heavier the bike the higher the loading. Even going relatively slowly over a dip or pothole with one side of the car would be enough to induce quite a robust pendulum effect of a mounted bike.
Would be quite interesting to model this in Ansys imo if you could obtain the tensile strength of the bodywork around the proposed mounting points.

Put it this way, even if I had a coupe I think I would rather risk mounting a Saris bones partially on the back window than a seasucker on the roof. But I also have an E85 so it’s not a problem.
:D

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Chris_D said:
I’d be too scared of the lateral loading around the edge of the base of the seasucker and the heavier the bike the higher the loading. Even going relatively slowly over a dip or pothole with one side of the car would be enough to induce quite a robust pendulum effect of a mounted bike.
Would be quite interesting to model this in Ansys imo if you could obtain the tensile strength of the bodywork around the proposed mounting points.
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Now i'm not actually an engineer, but I think the weight spread over all 4 suckers which have quite a wide footprint for each one, may negate any chance of a severe pressure point. I can always mount it backwards too over the rear window, with just the single sucker for the back wheel on the roof (which isn't rigidly mounted like the dropouts on the front mounts) which would allow the bike to wobble side to side without actually twisting that sucker itself.

Probably.
 
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