| Re: Adding rails to factory Roof Rack for bikes
On 1 Mar 2005 09:15:47 -0800, mswillia1@hotmail.com wrote:
>I was reading that the factory rack is not held on very well and then I
>was looking at some of the roof rack bars that clamp to the factory
>rack and noticed that some of them just hook over the factory rack and
>clamp together. So theoretically you could clamp the bars so tight
>that they rip the factory rack off of the roof?
>
>I have a 1998 S-10 Blazer with a factory roof rack and I want to
>upgrade it to cary 3 bikes now and then in a few years a 4th bike
>(small child now). I would like to get a Yakima or a Thule but they
>seem so expensive for ocassional use.
>
>Does anyone else have a blazer with a roof rack that has added bars.
>
>Yakima had lowriders, thule has a similar product. These appear to
>clamp around the factory rack.
I'd advise getting a trailer hitch and mount into that. Less drag. Probably
pay for the rack and hitch in gas savings rather quickly, plus the trailer
hitch mount is much more stable. You can even use the trailer hitch to uh,
you know, hitch a trailer. ;-)
jj
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