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Towbar rack here.
Easier to put bikes on than the roof, plus removable to avoid an MPG hit when not carrying bikes.
Haven't noticed the road spray being an issue at all, but then the bikes do tend to need a clean after most rides recently anyway.
Those fork clamping ones are meant to be very bad for your forks.
That just doesn't seem plausible. When riding the bike, the fork gets much higher forces transferred through the axle mount e.g. my 80kg weight bouncing about. On the roof rack it just has under half the weight of the bike, say 5kg, moving about a bit.
My tow bar rack is great. Takes four 26ers no bother. Halfords jobby, however does take some setting up but once sorted its great.
Mctd - the rear of both my cars are far dirtier with salt and muck than the roof from grot , the roof gets mostly just wet.
Fwiw all the crap gets sucked into the low air pressure left behind your car as it cuts through the air - some shapes are worse than others for this.
I don't think there is much risk of a bike coming out of a 591....
The tow bar mounted ones look pretty sturdy too...