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Hi guys
I need to be able to carry a mountain bike on the roof of my jimny possibly in the future four bikes.
I know the roof rails can not carry much weight due to the end sections being plastic.
Has anyone found a way of doing this?
The entire rails are plastic. Weight limit is 35kg.
There is a polish company that makes a very neat roof basket thing which is much stronger. If your handy its fairly easy to make some stronger cross rails instead that can bolt onto the existing studs (or get a fabricator to make some?).
Dont got for the mounting on the spare wheel type of bike rack as that will do for the back door with more than one very light bike on it. something that attaches to a towbar maybe?
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Riccy wrote: The entire rails are plastic. Weight limit is 35kg.
There is a polish company that makes a very neat roof basket thing which is much stronger. If your handy its fairly easy to make some stronger cross rails instead that can bolt onto the existing studs (or get a fabricator to make some?).
Dont got for the mounting on the spare wheel type of bike rack as that will do for the back door with more than one very light bike on it. something that attaches to a towbar maybe?
Riccy wrote: The entire rails are plastic. Weight limit is 35kg.
There is a polish company that makes a very neat roof basket thing which is much stronger. If your handy its fairly easy to make some stronger cross rails instead that can bolt onto the existing studs (or get a fabricator to make some?).
Dont got for the mounting on the spare wheel type of bike rack as that will do for the back door with more than one very light bike on it. something that attaches to a towbar maybe?
With the seats removed I can fit 2 bikes in the back. But to save taking all the wheels off I normally put one in the back and strap the other to the spare wheel.
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