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Old 07-05-2007, 02:24 PM
Brady Brady is offline
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Default Re: Hybrid Station Wagon

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Originally Posted by tcampb01 View Post
To get the bikes inside I have an ordinary piece of lumber (it's a 1x4 pine board about 2-1/2' wide. I measured the width of the split fold down seats and cut the board to the width of the seat directly behind the driver seat) On the piece of lumber I mounted a few front-fork mounts (see http://www.performancebike.com/shop/...tegory_ID=4413 - I didn't get this particular brand, I just picked up mine at a local bike shop, but there's a link with photos to give you an idea of how it works.). If you check the photos of the product in the link you'll see that they bolted each mount on a slight angle so that the handlebars of the neighboring bikes don't interfere with each other -- this lets you get tighter spacing.
Awesome! Perfect timing, I was just looking into doing this exact thing. At first I looked at the hitch mounts, but since I don't have a hitch yet that would be a huge cost. Ten bucks per fork mount is much easier to swallow! So your pine board just lays down on the floor then? Do the bikes shift around at all?

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