Quote Originally Posted by MommyBird View Post
Poor boy...his bike will not ship until after the 23rd. My husband's 56cm is the biggest bike in the house right now so we can't do an accurate fit check until the bike comes home from the LBS next week.

If it takes removing the back tire to make it fit we will definitely go with a rack.

We have some time before we will need to get him set up for transporting. First he will need to take delivery, and then ride a few times with his dad. He still has five rowing practices a week through May. He won't be ready to carry the bike in to the LBS group rides for at least a month.
I'm sure the bike shop has some other larger bikes you could try just for fit-in-the-car purposes. But it sounds like there's no rush anyways. He must be a very big kid.