The story continues. Anyone with a Yakima roof rack care to enlighten me?
With sheer dumb luck, I stumbled over a garage sale today and picked up a 2-bike Yakima roof rack in good condition for...err, delightfully little.
I appear to have gotten a direct roof mount system with: o 2 Raptor bike mounts (these are the type that have rail the assembled bike sits in, a locking strap for each wheel, and one arm that pivots up clamps onto the down tube). o Q towers Yakima #00105 - set of 4 ($125 new) o 4 lock cores for the above ($40 new) o The Q clips for whatever car this was on, 4 total ($50 new) o Pair 58" round crossbars Yakima #00409 ($42 new)
It's clear to me that this Q tower and Q clip combination is useless to me, ripe for reselling since a) the OBW isn't compatible with Q towers and b) the clips are car model-specific anyway.
So what's the best way for me to proceed? So far it seems this is the best approach at $27/set:
o Grab two sets of Yakima 24H Mighty Mount clips to affix the Raptors directly to my factory crossbars. Looks like I need 6 clips total. Graphic:
Do I have a handle on this, or do other Yakima-savvy folks have different ideas?
TIA for any insights,
Best Regards,
-- Todd H.
2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 Chicago, Illinois USA