Transporting bikes in the car

daver79

Sorry if this isn't the correct place to post this.

Does anybody know of any bike travel bags that don't cost much more than £60 each but are wide enough to enable you to leave the pedals on your bike and just turn the handlebars and remove the wheels?

Alternatively, what do you use to protect your car? (in my case the girlfriend's car!)

At present we just fold down the rear seats of her car (ford fiesta) and put a dust sheet down and put both bikes in (minus the wheels) with a thin blanket between the two and the wheels on top.

However as the weather's beginning to get more ropey and missus getting less keen on a muddy car, I'm looking for ideas.

I did consider a rear mounted rack but was concerned that most of them cover the number plate. Also a new car might be on the horizon, possible a ford focus, and these have high tail lights so a high mounted rear rack would obscure the lights.

I must admit I prefer travelling with the bikes inside of the car so any suggestions on bags or other suitable solutions that will protect the inside of the car from mud, grime and water would be appreciated!

realnumber 1

I use this in my car and seems to work well.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=17885

BorisSpencer

Also get yourself one of the pump up plant sprayers. Take it with you full of water and when you get back to the car you can pump it up and spray off the worst of the mud.

allthegearnoidea

got this from a reader tip in mbr a few issues ago,

pop into a bed shop and ask for a double mattress bag, (all mattresses come in a bag) and then you can either lay the bag in the car or, put the bikes in the bag in the back of the car!

tom_majski

whats wrong with taking the pedals off? a pedal spanner is only a tenner and its a 1 min job to take them off

schlepcycling

I've got one of these ->http://www.gbcycles.co.uk/eshop.asp?wci=product&wce=WHBSC50901&desc=SCI-CON+CHAIN+WHEEL+COVER admittedly it's for my road bike but I've used it to transport my mountain bike too, means u only need to remove the front wheel.

chuckd

I actually use an old blow up mattress which is a good fit for my Golf.

DickBarton

Just buy some tarp from B&Q and jobs done...it's plastic so water/mud won't seep through and it can be lifted out without spillage once the bikes are removed. If you buy a big enough tarp, it can go underneath the bottom bike, go over it and then place second bike (and wheels) then wrap the rest of the tarp over the top bike and wheels and keep them hidden of sorts...I do that when I put the bikes in the Bravo.