We're considering an mx5. Purely for the fun of it. My concern is fitting a bike on. Is it doable?
Friend of my Dad turned up at ours before a sportive in a Porsche Boxster with his bike in the front passenger seat and foot well. Not sure I'd want to do the same with a mountain bike though...
Could you get a tow bar and associated bike carrier for the back?
I'd thought about that. If anyone has experience then I'd love to hear about it!
I used to get my bike on my MX5 without any problems. (on a boot rack)
What Mk are you looking at?
Get hold of Cynic-Al..
He had a bike rack for his...
And no, it wasn't made of spoons.
Well, I dont think it was...
I used to have a MK1 and just used an old 'normal' bike rack, hooked the top straps over the boot lid and got it to sit part on the boot lid and other on the top of the bumper. Worked fine for 2 bikes and 2 people in the car. Only issue was you couldn't get into the boot after the bikes were on the rack without taking it all off.
I've got an MX5 and a saris bones 2. fine for hardtails.
See if you can contact Pedalhead, he had an MR2 Roadster with a proper purpose designed rack on the back of that, so I imagine there would be a similar one for the MX5
Cheers all.
Funkydunk....dunno yet. Jap import though to avoid the rust.
detachable tow bar with bike rack, not the cheapest option but keeps bikes/racks away from paintwork and allows hood to operate, like we have on our 9-3 vertible
Can't be that difficult - depends how willing to strip the bike down you are...
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Sanny used to put 2 on his. Guy who bought Kevins SX trail came in a MX5 and managed to get it in the passenger side
I used a fairly generic boot mounted rack from Evans. Took the car to the shop and tried a few for size.
Have a look on pistonheads. My mate Si (snotrag - sometimes posts on here but is on pistonheads too) has a mk1 MX5 and went through a load of racks to find the best when he was working for a LBS or something apparently!
I've had three mk1 MX5s. Never attempted to fit a bike in/on one. Might have to try when I get the missus one next year for our 10th anniversary.
I run a mk1 with the proper bike rack, don't think you can get them anymore.
Both wheels and seatpost off and it goes in the passenger seat (in a bag). You have to compress the fork and toe-strap it down (20", no bigger imo)
I've not driven many other cars but it always puts a smile on my face.
In terms of fitting tow bars, I think only the earlier models can have them fitted. That's from memory of reading somewhere on a thread, not experience
Think you are right P20.
Nice handle.
There's a guy I've met a couple of times who has a boot mounted luggage rack on his Mk2. He fits a fork QR style roof rack to that, whips the front wheel out, flips the bars round 180° to shorten the wheelbase and mounts the bike like that.
Saris Bones 3 when we had one. Found the 3 is better than 2 to allow you to space bikes.
Might need to take pedal off next to the car (I gouged the paint). Oh, and you can open the boot if you just let off the bottom straps.
Took my road bike on it to the south of France a couple of years ago for the Etape. Seemed stable enough at 160kph on the autoroutes.... 😉
I've had a mountain bike and a road bike in the missus' mk1 MX5. Wheels off, of course, and not at the same time. It's not ideal as some part of the bike tends to block access to the gearstick. And you have to take the roof down to get everything in and then put it up again over the bike.
Alternative is one of those Saris things. We have one of those too, and I've had the mountain bike and the road bike on at the same time. Massive faff though. I end up with bunjee cords everywhere and a ratchet strap round everything and through the boot, just in case.
[quote=Tracey]Guy who bought Kevins SX trail came in a MX5 and managed to get it in the passenger side
That was me. It did involve removing the passenger seat (at home, obviously) and still only worked because Kevin had a strap to keep the forks compressed! Access to gearstick and handbrake were not ideal on the return journey, so I wouldn't recommend doing it regularly.
I just take the passenger seat out of mine. 5 bolts and 2 sets of wires to unplug. Very simple and quick.
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