Bike rack on an x1/9, anybody?

[Fabergé Greggs]

Long shot, but has anyone put a bike rack on an x1/9 or have any experience in a bike rack that fitted a similar shape? Mine has the earlier 1300 bumpers to further complicate things.

 

It's nigh on impossible to find a place that wants to take the time to fit and sell me a rack.. I blame the internet.

[Junkman]

Like so:

 

 

Which is one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNIVERSAL-2-BICYCLE-CARRIER-CAR-RACK-BIKE-CYCLE-/381007587349

[Fabergé Greggs]

Methinks I'd get in trouble for covering up number plates etc.. I need a bit of a higher mount, non?

[Junkman]

A friend of mine regularly uses one of these on his hairdressers' Mazda and hasn't got into trouble yet.

If need be, buy a second numberplate and cable tie it to it. Bonus points for upside down.

[spike60]

Methinks I'd get in trouble for covering up number plates etc.. I need a bit of a higher mount, non?

I would think most cars would need a trailer board fixed to the bike to be vaguely legal. I'd be more bothered about covering the lights than the plate

[barefoot]

The bizarre home made contraption I occasionally have on the back of the t2 was originally made to support a 70kg monkey bike.

It now occasionally supports an RSW 16 which obscures the lights and the number plate. There's a number plate fastened to the pushbike, but no effort is made at all to duplicate the lights.

A couple of times a year for the last fifteen years and not been stopped or crashed into yet.

I suspect there are very few rozzers out on the roads anymore.

[Station]

Those X19's are really nice looking cars.

[cort1977]

Methinks I'd get in trouble for covering up number plates etc.. I need a bit of a higher mount, non?

You would be extremely unlucky judging by the number of flimsy looking contraptions you see swaying around on the back of cars and obscuring the lights.   I like the towbar mounted ones that support the bike wheels but not much good for an X19.

[Barry Cade]

Towbars are available for X1/9's....

[cort1977]

I stand corrected. In that case a Pendleton or Thule tow bar rack is the best and also most expensive solution.

[richardmorris]

Someone in the x1/9 club has a wheelchair mounted in a cage on the back for his wife (she doesn't sit in it you understand). I've a tow bar mounted bike carrier for the 2CV and have made up a towing board with 2CV lights and a plank of wood.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Towbars are available for X1/9's....

 

Yes I got a quote for £170 or so for a tow bar (not fitted). Couldn't bring myself to spoil those lovely looks with a tow bar though..

[lovejoy]

a folding moulton has to be the answer - fit it under the "bonnet" !

[Fabergé Greggs]

a folding moulton has to be the answer - fit it under the "bonnet" !

 I had a loan of a pal's brompton for a little while when I first moved to London, and even that wouldn't fit in the frunk. Well, it did, but only after I took the saddle, seat post and crank off. 

 

You can fit a surprising amount of stuff in an X1/9 if it's packable, but they're surprising tiny when it comes to anything inflexible. 

 

Besides, I want to take my proper bikes places. 

[Barry Cade]

Why not just get a spare roof and bolt a bike rack directly to it?

[richardmorris]

The roof is not really secure enough for that weight. I wouldn't trust mine anyway.

[Barry Cade]

 

[catsinthewelder]

That's ace but what does he do with the front wheel?

[Des]

. I've a tow bar mounted bike carrier for the 2CV 

Would you not be better mounting the 2CV on the pushbike?

[Junkman]

That's ace but what does he do with the front wheel?

 

Carry it with his teeth.

[Fabergé Greggs]

A real man would just wheelie.

[Timewaster]

Last Wednesday I followed an X1/9 from Diss to Bury St Edmunds with what looked like a gas Cooker sticking out of the boot so I guess anything is possible.

[Barry Cade]

Last Wednesday I followed an X1/9 from Diss to Bury St Edmunds with what looked like a gas Cooker sticking out of the boot so I guess anything is possible.

Was it 2 tone grey/silver? about a D reg?

[Timewaster]

I thought it was red and silver but I could be wrong. It was absolutely pissing down at the time.

It was on a C or a D with a 6 digit plate.

[Tayne]

That's ace but what does he do with the front wheel?