I have to carry four bikes (and four cyclists, and luggage) from Glasgow to Lands End and then from John O'Groats back to Glasgow this summer, with my
110 station wagon. The options seem to be 1 Towball-mounted bike carrier 2 Proper roof rack (with a ladder) and bike carrying bars from Thule or some such 3 A pair of roof bars and then bike carrying bars as above (but this'll make getting the bikes on and off quite tricky)Anyone had any experience of doing this?
cheers
Olly R
4 Proper roof rack and strap the bikes lying down with rags between the frames (and yes, this works fine) 5 trailer with bike racks fitted - then you can stow the gear under the bikes, and the total height wouldn't excessive, neither would mounting/unmounting the bikes be a pain.
Have you consider the total height of a 110, rack and bicycles? :) You'd be competing with the juggernauts...
Stuart
On or around Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:00:12 +0200, Stuart Gray enlightened us thusly:
I'd go with 5 meself; summat about a 6x4 trailer will hold 4 bikes, and there should be enough room in the 110 for 4 pax plus luggage.
Thanks Stuart and Austin.
I had thought of the height issue. A trailer was my first thought actually, but I would then have to tow a practically empty trailer all the way up the country (I'm being landie backup for a charity end-to-end cycle ride) and be speed restricted and all. But it would give us more room inside for stuff....
Olly
Are there still speed restrictions on trailers? What is it?
Stuart
I think you're restricted to 60 on dual carriageways and motorways with a caravan or trailer.
Ah, not a problem to someone with a 2.25 or 2.5 NA diesel....
Stuart
50 on SC and 60 on DC, plus no use of the outside lane if more than 2 lanes.
If you take speed limit to be x + 10% + 2, you are looking at max speeds of
57 and 68 mph. I can't see that being too restrictive for a 110.All the above assumes you take any notice of the trailer speed restrictions. You'd be about the only one that did, I would imagine.
On or around Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:22:19 +0100, "Rich B" enlightened us thusly:
How likely is one to get nabbed for using the outside lane?
Done it plenty of times with a sod-off great caravan on the back, so probably
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Richard
On or around Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:39:16 +0100, Richard enlightened us thusly:
anyone see last week's Dr. Who?
Scary...
In article , Austin Shackles writes
Dunno about that.
Personally, I thought there was a certain, reassuring "101-ness" about the vehicles.
But why such things always seem to happen in New York I can't fathom. Anybody would think the BBC wanted North American sales - New Sheffield* presumably wouldn't have been the same, post-nuclear holocaust or otherwise.
Regards,
Simonm.
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