how do you load your bike on the car?

[ttaylor508]

hi girls

i've been using a rear Thule bike carrier or a audi for a couple of years, and the draw back is that at the end of a trip on a highway, my 2 bikes are carpeted with insects...


so i'm investigating on different ways of loading them, possibly even inside the car, without damaging the interiors and getting greas all over when loading-unloading.

has anyone tried this method on her car?
http://www.bdc-forum.it/showpost.php...&postcount=129

ideas? suggestions? opinions?

We load our bikes this way in our Expedition and in the back of DH's truck when its just the two of us. DH used a piece of diamond plate angle metal and just bought the skewers and mounted them to the angle plate. It was a very inexpensive way to haul around our bikes. We bought a Yakima hitch rack a few years back and use it if we need to haul more than 2 bikes. I don't have any problem getting the bikes on the hitch rack, even the kids heavy mt. bikes. I am only 5'3ish and can still lift them onto the rack when it is on the Expedition which sits rather high.