Follow-up: New bike panic

[VeloVT]

btw, is that a hitch-mounted rack? how do you like it? we had a trunk-mount rack briefly (decent quality, I don't remember whether it was Thule or Yakima) and didn't like it too much because a) it was hard to load two bikes and be sure they wouldn't scratch each other and b) the straps fastened over the top tube and the cradles for the top tube didn't really accomodate bf's shaped carbon top tube very well.

Yours looks like it would avoid those problems, while perhaps being a bit easier to load than a roof rack...

I'm actually quite happy with my roof rack -- but it is interesting to see all of the options and how they work.

edit: and duh, how could I forget -- what a gorgeous bike! Congratulations!