Vendetta
06/15/2011, 08:07 PM
Hey gang,
New-ish member here... I joined up last year as I prepped to get my '99 Astral Silver back on the road after a few years in stir.
Anyway, the refurb engine's in, she's back on the road, and I'm a happy guy. Didn't realize just how much I missed this thing!
Anyway, to the point - I've got the OEM Wing Bar setup, and the vertical Mighty Mounts and the Powderhound ski rack, and was looking for a good solution for mounting two bikes up there when there's no snow to play in.
I didn't have the foresight to buy the horizontal Mighty Mounts 10 years ago, and thought I was SOL after a recent search. But the guys at a certain online rack store advised me that the universal-fit bike racks Yakima's putting out now do the trick.
So drunk with optimism, I bought THREE Yakima Forklifts on speculation that I could shoehorn 'em up there and IT WORKED! No fuss, no muss, no Mighty Mounts!
The outer two are oriented normally and pushed out to about centimeter from the towers, and the middle one reversed (so the back tire faces forward). Tossed all three MTBs up there this past weekend, to test them and lived to tell you about it, so I guess that means it works.
There you have it - if you're in the market for bike racks but light on Mighty Mounts, there really is a solution out there.
Happy trails!
-V
New-ish member here... I joined up last year as I prepped to get my '99 Astral Silver back on the road after a few years in stir.
Anyway, the refurb engine's in, she's back on the road, and I'm a happy guy. Didn't realize just how much I missed this thing!
Anyway, to the point - I've got the OEM Wing Bar setup, and the vertical Mighty Mounts and the Powderhound ski rack, and was looking for a good solution for mounting two bikes up there when there's no snow to play in.
I didn't have the foresight to buy the horizontal Mighty Mounts 10 years ago, and thought I was SOL after a recent search. But the guys at a certain online rack store advised me that the universal-fit bike racks Yakima's putting out now do the trick.
So drunk with optimism, I bought THREE Yakima Forklifts on speculation that I could shoehorn 'em up there and IT WORKED! No fuss, no muss, no Mighty Mounts!
The outer two are oriented normally and pushed out to about centimeter from the towers, and the middle one reversed (so the back tire faces forward). Tossed all three MTBs up there this past weekend, to test them and lived to tell you about it, so I guess that means it works.
There you have it - if you're in the market for bike racks but light on Mighty Mounts, there really is a solution out there.
Happy trails!
-V