Saris Bones Issues

Dizeee

I bought s Saris 1 around 18 months ago and it has had light to moderate use. This is with my road bikes which are light.

For quite some time though now I find the rack just dislodges and disconnects itself very early on in journeys, with me having to keep stopping and adjusting it. It happens with any car ( used it on three very different cars) and every time the same outcome.

It is worst when carrying my Hybrid which is heavy, and one side always ends up falling away and out in to the wind. With any bike I always find one of the lower clips works loose and ends up dangling in the wind.

Do they all do this? I must stress there is nothing I am doing wrong, the rack is always so tight it is almost at the stage of damaging the car, yet it always works loose very quickly.

defycomp2

Never had an issue with our "Bones". Put rack on, tighten straps, put bikes on tighten straps again, then just force the rack up with a shoulder whilst really tightening the top strap clips. This seems to stop the top rubber mount from coming away from the rear screen. Finally, we tie the loose straps in basic knots and stuff them in the central strap tube.

Bozman

DefyComp2 wrote:

Never had an issue with our "Bones". Put rack on, tighten straps, put bikes on tighten straps again, then just force the rack up with a shoulder whilst really tightening the top strap clips. This seems to stop the top rubber mount from coming away from the rear screen. Finally, we tie the loose straps in basic knots and stuff them in the central strap tube.

+1. I Put another strap through the rack just for piece of mind(paranoid).

Don't they have a lifetime warranty?

Dizeee

I am not concerned about the rack coming off, the top clips will never come away so at worst, even if both bottom clips came loose (usually just one that does) it will remain on the car.

Its just that the bike ends up moving around and is not as stable as it should be. The top rubber bung moves away completely from the car on occasion when I have my hybrid aboard.

Dorset_Boy

Sounds to me like you aren't doing the straps up tight enough.
Have a Bones 3 and never had a problem.

Dizeee

Straps so tight it hurts - it's just they weaken.

Nick Cod

I have a bones saris two. One thing I do when I have tightened the straps is to tie them off on themselves to prevent them ever working loose. Been up and down the country with road bikes and mountain bikes, never had a issue. Great racks!!!