Again, can’t think of a apt title so there.
I’ve decided that its too much of hassle to use my trunk-mounting bicycle rack for carrying the bikes.
- It takes a good 5-10 minutes to set the rack up and make sure everything’s nice and tight.
- Trunk is rendered “unusable” from the outside at that point; I have to spend another five minutes organizing the backseat to collapse (allowing access to the trunk from the inside .
- Mounting the actual bikes to the rack is also a challenge; I have to make sure the pedals, forks, etc. are positioned a certain way so that it’s easy to tighten down and not have them scratching each other.
- All this is usually done in the sun…
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- Speed of driving is severely hindered; anything past 60 and you can feel the rack rocking…
So I decided to “retire” it and get a proper system despite the risk of botching up the look of my car. Practicality won this time.
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