How Very West Coast, My Dear

Totally West Coast

How very West Coast

Post ride convoy to the pub, after a ride up on Burke, Coquitlam, BC.

A pretty classic site around town.

I wonder why this style of rack isn’t found in the UK, as they’re way handier than those stupid things with all the dangly bits you have to tie on.

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  1. Sol,

    I had one of those till someone drove into the back of my car…

    Pretty effective if you don’t mind bikes on the outside of a car.

  2. Kieran,

    That looks a neat solution. I take it it uses a tow bar mount? Who produces them?

  3. They use a square hitch, there’s two sizes here – I think it’s 2″ and 1.5″. This is the smaller of the two, and basically the rack just slots into a hole in the hitch, which is mounted to the bottom of the car.

    Yakima, Thule, Sportrack and a bunch of others make the racks, but I think the mounts are the problem in the UK – it may be because the rack is really just held on by one bolt, unlike the ball mount type.

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