So many things about this photo that I love.Cool car, cool tandem. Thanks for sharing.
On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 12:51:03 AM UTC-5, Nick Payne wrote: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R3jufgl4atY/VNZ5g3fYdXI/AAAAAAAADOw/38nKyJ6T8R4OX0dwzOlYaQmEpjFDWkkCACL4C/s1600/Scan-110423-0003.jpg> > > > This is what we used for many years until we sold this car. I made the > carrier using about $20 of timber. It's a piece of dressed 100mmx30mm long > enough for the wheels to sit on, with pieces of 30x30 screwed on each side > at each end to form slots for the wheels to sit in. A couple of galvanized > u-bolts hold it onto the roofrack cross members. We would lift the bike on > and then the stoker would stand on the rear bumper and hold it upright > while I lashed it down to each side from ropes that went around the > handlebar stem. Additional ropes went fore and aft from the bottom brackets > to prevent the bike moving forwards and backwards. With a bit of practice I > could get it on by myself without needing any assistance. > > It only took a couple of minutes to get the tandem on or off the rack, and > we have driven right across Australia (5000km) and many shorter trips at > highway speed with the bike up there. I've looked at the tandem topper rack > on a friend's vehicle and thought that our setup was much more stable than > theirs. > > Nick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
