we are seriously considering getting a civic hybrid to ease the pain at the pump when we want to get to bike rides.... however we need to be able to transport 2 bikes (either 2 road bikes or 2 mountain bikes... depending on the ride)....

are any of you cyclist? what system do you use? what is best? we think we prefer rooftop as it's not quite as accessible to thieves as a trunk (or hitch) mount! (we had a bad experience where someone tried to steal my brand new bike off a hitch mount thus the purchase of our current gas hot SUV so we could carry the bikes inside.... of course... that was prior to the HUGE gas hikes!)

anyways.... riding is a big and very important thing to us.... so we NEED to transport our bikes safely and also keep them safe if we need to stop to eat of shop on our way home from a ride.....

any help, thoughts, comments would be very much apprecieated!