we spent this past weekend up in NH and brought our bikes. 3.5-4 hours each way, i'd say the racks are thoroughly tested and i'm very pleased. here are some pics:

bikes on the car:


closeup:


rear:


one of the spots we biked by:


so, if you're looking for a good strong fork-mount rack, that will mount to your factory crossbars, i recommend rockymounts. not only do they work, imo they look good, and the quality is awesome.

these also ended up being much cheaper than going with thule or yakima.

these cost me just about $200 even for the two bike racks, a disk brake adapter, and a pair of locks for the fork-mounts. depending on your crossbars, longer mounting bolts may be required.

anyway, good shit.

ibccoupehate

 

is that your car? i was expecting this to be mounted to the teg

 

it's the future wife's car. i never felt like investing in a rack that wouldn't fit quite right on the teg, so we use hers for ski trips and now biking trips. this thing is better in the snow anyway.

 

In! h:

 

the future wife's pictures didnt upload

 

Disc brake adapters? I dont see the front discs on

 

it's to give enough clearance to the brake caliper. otherwise the caliper hits the tray and doesn't let the fork seat into place.

the disc is attached directly to the rim. the caliper is mounted to the fork.

 

For some reason when I read this, I read it as "wife's future car" instead of "future wife's"....I was like


I just got a bike rack...might possibly fit on the teg b/c of my wing, BUT I'll probably put it on the bf's car anyway....

I'm now in seek of a bike rack for the garage that holds 2. I'm looking at something of this type:
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...ductId=2731778
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...Id=17770418243

 

:doh: Idiot. I installed and have disc brakes myself. For some reason I thought they went on the fork :exnbp:

 

oh neat. i want something like that for our garage too. if the house we hope to buy in the next year happens to have a garage, that is.

haha.. no worries. i do that shit too... misremember shit i've done.. :lmao: :exnbp: