There don't seem to be a lot of options for carrying a bike in a Hyundai ioniq. The inside is a bit low; the traditional bike rack I've got doesn't fit. So I've taken a punt on one of the suction cup rack things instead.
The bike is firmly attached to the rack, and the rack is firmly attached to the roof, but the roof is not of a particularly solid construction. It seems to have a kind of outer layer that can flex if you push down on it. The result is that the bike seems solidly attached, but if you really give it a side to side wobble it does deflect a bit as the roof itself flexes.
The roof of our other car is a bit more sturdy, but it still flexes if you push on it a bit harder. So how wobbly are these things expected to be? How rigid is a car roof normally? I'm trying to work out whether it's fine and wobbling a bit round corners and over bumps is normal and to be expected, or whether they need a roof more solid than this car has.
I've only tried it on the drive, I haven't had chance to go anywhere with it yet...
I have the same with this on a Mini Cooper. I’ve managed to drive reasonable distances without disaster.
The first car I used mine on had a glass roof. It was ideal aside from the thought that if I dropped the fork putting the bike on, that the whole thing might shatter.
Second car has a conventional roof like yours. I have noticed some movement and noise, but no lasting damage is apparent. I think it is too be expected on any metal roof as they are quite thin sheet steel.
A bit late, but what about a towbar rack ? Much better on the range and easy to load.
/\ This, or even with one of the cups on the glass if the roofline is favourable.
I can't find any more rigid bits of the roof; I assume it's either only supported at the edges or underneath using a soft layer of insulation or something like that. The most rigid bit the bike can go on is the back window, but then the front has to go right in the centre of the main roof which is definitely the most flexy bit. Instead I've got the front bit as close to the front edge as it will go.
The blurb for these things says to never use them backwards, which is annoying as putting the wider bit of the rack on the solid back window would be perfect! I assume there's a good reason...
I think I just need to try going somewhere and see what it's like. The unnerving bit is not being able to see it from inside.
Annoyingly the car can't take a towbar, so that's not an option. I think the next alternative is clamp style roof bars, but that's a bit more expensive and I like the potential convenience of being able to fasten the (much smaller) suction rack to the car much faster than faffing with roof bars.
/\ This, or even with one of the cups on the glass if the roofline is favourable.
The glass of the front or the back? It's a very swoopy shaped car so putting it on the very top of the front windscreen might look terrifying and ridiculous but it might actually work...
I'll try it. If the windscreen falls out I'll blame you 🙂
Yes I was going to suggest the front sucker's on the windscreen, much stronger than it looks as long as you don't drop your forks on it!
Don't they also do sucker style boot racks?
I was all ready to try it with the suckers on the windscreen before I remembered about the concept of windscreen wipers and didn't know whether they would collide. Anyway, I did some YouTube research (uh oh) which happened to include someone using one on a Mini which seems to have an even flexier roof than an ioniq and it worked okay, so I gave it a try with a jaunt out to the nearest Big Hill about eight miles away. It worked fine; possibly a few funny boioing noises that might have been the roof flexing a bit, but nothing untoward happened on the lumpier, windier urban roads there and the faster but smoother motorway back.
The second longer run was today, 65 miles of mainly motorway, everything worked okay again. Maybe this will work after all. One of the suckers seems to lose vacuum very slowly so I might see if it can be replaced. Other than that though it works well, is vastly less faff than sorting all the straps of the rack I used on the last car, and takes up next to no garage space.
I'll update this thread if it ever falls off, but fingers crossed it doesn't come to that 🙂
Depends if you ride with others and need the space but I've always found it easiest to drop the rear seats, take the front wheel off and slide the bike in sideways through the boot.
In winter I throw a couple of old Towels down to prevent getting mud everywhere, and that's on a j10 qashqai with roof bars already installed btw, as I ride solo 99% of the time it seemed pointless to spend the money on a roof rack
That's what I've always done in the past, but it only works if it's just me and the bike and not much else. This eliminates a lot of riding possibilities, so being able to easily load a bike while still being able to transport child and stuff is very useful.
We're away for a few days now and I've brought the bike which I wouldn't have been able to do if the bike had had to go inside.