What roof rack to get?

Adam1985
Adam1985 Posts: 32
edited May 2014 in Road buying advice
Any advice on best roof rack to get would be great....

Just bought some roof bars and now looking for a piece of kit to hold a couple of road bikes

Thanks

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  • rokt
    rokt Posts: 493
    Have a look at Atera on www.roofbox.co.uk :D
  • StillGoing
    StillGoing Posts: 5,211
    Whispbars from the roofbox company. Have them on my Touareg and allow me to have the pan roof open due to them being raised slightly higher. The also have an inserted rubber sleeve in the track to reduce wind noise.

    http://www.roofbox.co.uk/roof-bars/roof ... rorack.php
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Have only ever had Thule stuff but it always seems very well made/designed and is super quick and easy to use.

    Notice they do a new wing bar now but we have the older aero bars (which look slightly less aero lol).

    I like the way Thule stuff just slides on and off the bars rather than clamps around them.
  • shipley
    shipley Posts: 549
    I really want to buy one of these but cringe at the thought of trusting it with a £5k bike :cry:

    http://www.seasucker.com/shop/1187/
  • arlowood
    arlowood Posts: 2,561
    Can recommend the Thule 591. Used it last year to transport my bike from the Midlands to Scotland for the Etape Caledonia. Solid, reliable and quick to attach and dismount the bike.

    Cheapest place I found was in the Sandicliffe Shop.

    http://www.sandicliffeshop.co.uk/produc ... rU5tvD_BwE

    There was a Sandicliffe car showroom near me so I did a click and collect thus saving on the shipping costs. But even with shipping it still undercuts most if not all other suppliers. Remember you have to add the cost of roof bars and clamping feet/brackets.
  • rudivoller22
    rudivoller22 Posts: 492
    What is the general consensus on fork mounted carriers? Are they ok for carbon forks? I've got a cervelo S5 and my Thule doesn't really fit the wider downtube. Carry it in car whenever possible but with 2 kids it will have to be roof if I want to take it on holiday?
  • animal72
    animal72 Posts: 251
    rudivoller22 wrote:
    What is the general consensus on fork mounted carriers? Are they ok for carbon forks? I've got a cervelo S5 and my Thule doesn't really fit the wider downtube. Carry it in car whenever possible but with 2 kids it will have to be roof if I want to take it on holiday?

    I use them on my Wilier and the Mrs Bianchi, never had any problems and would much prefer to clamp the forks than the down tube.
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  • windjam71
    windjam71 Posts: 1
    What's the consensus on carbon drop outs? I prefer the idea of a fork mount but am concerned with the full carbon..
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Shipley wrote:
    I really want to buy one of these but cringe at the thought of trusting it with a £5k bike :cry:

    http://www.seasucker.com/shop/1187/

    They look fairly decent, especially the new model
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