A Bike Rack That Fits!

[spadz93]

Here are my thoughts, organized into a list form:

1. If you want to carry your bikes, get a hitch, especially if you value your paint/investment. If something is touching or rubbing on the paint, bike or rack, your paint will be damaged. Period.

2. Covering your tail lights, regardless of being able to see them through the wheels, can't be safe.

3. Cops are going to LOVE cracking out that ticket book for a hard-to-see if not impossible-to-see plate and tail lights.

4. Rear visibility is already trash in these cars. This is just the icing on the cake.

[Homeless Man]

You already knew what the responses were gonna be before posting this

[ChocoTaco369]

I just died a little inside.

[Cam_Cam]

Originally Posted by spadz93

Here are my thoughts, organized into a list form:

1. If you want to carry your bikes, get a hitch, especially if you value your paint/investment. If something is touching or rubbing on the paint, bike or rack, your paint will be damaged. Period.

2. Covering your tail lights, regardless of being able to see them through the wheels, can't be safe.

3. Cops are going to LOVE cracking out that ticket book for a hard-to-see if not impossible-to-see plate and tail lights.

4. Rear visibility is already trash in these cars. This is just the icing on the cake.

Here are my counters. I don't care about the paint, I won't own this car for more than another year anyway. The taillights are easily visible, the picture is just a bad angle. I'd bet the cost of both of those bikes that no cop is going to say a single thing about the bikes and is more likely to pull me over for my very illegal window tint which I haven't been stopped for in two years. The back up camera, and all three of my mirrors surprisingly work exactly as the did before, when I never had rear visibility problems because I know how to drive a car.

And I actually am surprised by the responses. Especially people who act like they've never seen a bike rack on a car before. As if this is some kind of revolutionary new and incredibly dangerous invention, or as if you've all been scared by bikes falling off bike racks in front of you in the past.

[ELIC1]

I don't care about the paint really.

[OL'TIGER]

FYI, if you pop the front wheel off a road bike and drop the rear seat back in the car, you can fit the bike in the trunk and shut the lid with no real problem. Done this in Mustangs and Gen 4/5 Camaros. Gen 4 Camaro would actually hold 2 bikes internally!

[Cam_Cam]

Originally Posted by OL'TIGER

FYI, if you pop the front wheel off a road bike and drop the rear seat back in the car, you can fit the bike in the trunk and shut the lid with no real problem. Done this in Mustangs and Gen 4/5 Camaros. Gen 4 Camaro would actually hold 2 bikes internally!

Yea I can get just my bike in the trunk no problem. But when there's 2, no chance.

[$inferno]

Originally Posted by gajagfan

Just don't put the rebel flag on it or you will be in big trouble!

That's funny!

[spadz93]

If you don't care about the paint, then kudos to you. Not really sure why you wouldn't value your investment, but that's not my business.

[SteelCamaro]

Just make sure the bikes are on there good! I was just behind some guy on the interstate the other day that lost both of his bikes. Wasn't a pretty sight!

[tomlink]

Wow, so many negative comments. My bike rack really does not work on my car so its either put the bike in the trunk or I need to take my wife's car (I'd rather NOT!)

I need to check this out. Thanks for the info.

[tomlink]

And to the other negative guys ... the tail lights show through fine. Bikes are really not that huge to block the lights.

[IBM]

God, these responses are ridiculous. It's just a car, people. If you're really worried about 2 pieces of foam and a little bit of pressure on the bumper's paint, get a reality check. Is the minute amount of 'damage' ever going to be noticeable? No.
Funny how nobody says anything to the people who plaster masking tape all over the front of their cars to go on long trips, yet you're all wound up over 2 pieces of foam rubbing on the paint.

To the comments about taillight visibility - there's really no getting past the reduction in visibility with a bike rack, whether it be trunk mounted or hitch mounted. You're going to block the taillights and likely the license plate no matter the car. We used to hitch 3-4 bikes on the back of a Tahoe and drive 1,500 miles without issues, even when the wheels were overlapping the taillights & plate.

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by IBM

God, these responses are ridiculous. It's just a car, people. If you're really worried about 2 pieces of foam and a little bit of pressure on the bumper's paint, get a reality check. Is the minute amount of 'damage' ever going to be noticeable? No.
Funny how nobody says anything to the people who plaster masking tape all over the front of their cars to go on long trips, yet you're all wound up over 2 pieces of foam rubbing on the paint.

To the comments about taillight visibility - there's really no getting past the reduction in visibility with a bike rack, whether it be trunk mounted or hitch mounted. You're going to block the taillights and likely the license plate no matter the car. We used to hitch 3-4 bikes on the back of a Tahoe and drive 1,500 miles without issues, even when the wheels were overlapping the taillights & plate.

Painters tape doesn't apply any pressure to a painted surface plus it won't rub any painted surface because it can't move. And, too many, it isn't just a car. To you it is and that's fine. I don't care how you treat yours because it isn't mine. I have a pickup to haul shit because that's what they are for. Camaros are to go fast and look pretty. That's about it.