Date:         Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:29:24 -0500
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Bike carriers
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I sent the following by pmail to the person who asked first.

Go to www.bikenashbar.com and / or www.performancebike.com and look
around.  There you will find lots of moderately priced trunk mount
bikeracks that can be repositioned to fit on the rear hatch, but these
only carry up to 3 bikes.

In addition, on both sites you can find bike racks for carrying 4 bikes
in the range of $100 on up to over $300 that would fit on a vehicle that
was equipped with a trailer hitch that has the square receiver.   I
would think that the type of tow bar which bolts onto the vanagon towing
hooks in the rear could be modified to have a receiver and thus be used
for this type of rack.  Four bikes should weigh less than 120 pounds, so
I think this would be a reasonable weight for the hooks and the bar to
carry.   This might be worth looking into, since it would be cheaper
than a 4 bike roof rack setup.

Sam

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