My 'big' vehicle is a Honda Odyssey. That's what I use when I'm transporting high schoolers and their bikes to team practices. I have just a simple 2 bike hitch rack, but a couple of the other coaches have similar vans with 4 slots on top plus 4 more on the hitch rack in back for a total of 8 bikes. It's pretty awesome.
More relevant to Rivendell, if I fold down the back seats, and remove the middle row of seats, and fold down the console between the two front seats, I can fit my HubbuHubbuH tandem fully inside the vehicle. The front wheel is removed and the bike does not have fenders. My HHH is a size small, though, but it has front and rear bosco bars and a Nitto Big front rack and huge Wald basket, so it's still a pretty huge machine. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7:33:51 PM UTC-7, LeRoy wrote: > > When I bought my Clem 59 in the Spring of 2018, I carried it back from New > Jersey to Michigan *inside* a very sub-compact Jeep Renegade, along with > three guys and enough luggage and gear for a long weekend. Granted, the > Clem was reduced to its smallest sub-units: frame, wheels, handlebar, > fenders, seat, racks, etc. But it all fit. Inside. And so did three grown > men + gear. This was all fine for a one-time transport but not conducive to > regularly carting the Clem around. > Earlier this year, I did a trial fit of the Clem in my wife's somewhat > bigger Jeep Compass. With the bike's front wheel removed and the car's > front passenger seat all the way forward, the Clem was a *very* tight > fit. Still indoors, but human occupancy in the front passenger seat wasn't > going to happen. The result was one person and one bike safely on board. > Clearly, I needed a bigger vehicle. > So, as I shopped for a replacement for the Renegade, I figured that moving > up the Jeep food chain one notch - to the Cherokee model - would result in > a better Clem-fit. Nope. Who would have thunk that the > bigger-on-the-outside Cherokee was actually smaller-on-the-inside? It would > *barely* accommodate the Clem! The bike fits less well in the Cherokee > than the Compass. It's certainly more difficult to load and unload. Of > course, discovering this occurred *after* leasing the new Cherokee. > The lesson is, apparently, to take one's bike along when car-shopping. Or > bring the test ride home long enough to test-fit the bike. Or, to borrow > from the old carpenter's adage, measure twice, buy once. > Other than that, I really like both the Clem and the new Cherokee. But the > end result is that the Jeep will be getting a trailer hitch and the Clem > will be riding outdoors, on the back of the Cherokee. > Anyone else run into a similar doesn't-quite-fit dilemma? ...or have a > clever solution that hasn't occurred to me? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/694b7b53-9df8-4efe-8652-478c1e11b86c%40googlegroups.com.
