Smallest car you can get a whole bike in (no disassembly)

Hi

I’m looking for the smallest car you can get a single bike in *without* taking wheels off – just me and my 27.5 enduro bike. Fiesta? Leon?

Ta,

Rich

Back seats up / down?

What about passengers?

Got a droper post?

How wide are the bars?

How wide are the bars? – Crucial

As is how long are the forks.

Fiesta? No chance

Some kind of estate or people carrier.

Frinstance some claim a civic can swallow a bike, but none of my 2 ever have, tried hardtails, FS, Road bikes the lot.

Unless you’re the height of Ronnie Corbetts wee brother.

Agreed re estate or people carrier; without either wheel coming off total length of a modern mtb is circa 180cm long from back of rear tyre to front of front tyre with tyres inflated. That’s going to need a proper sized car to fit it in.

Why? What’s so hard about taking the front wheel off?

My wife’s small 26″ hardtail won’t go in anything I’d consider a small car with both wheels on.

It would physically fit in our Picasso c3 with the arm rest off the drivers seat, but you’d not be able to use the handbrake. It would also take some serious juggling to physically get it in there, much more pita than removing the front wheel.

No passengers, just me and my bike.

Dropper post  – yes

760mm bars

I’ve been using a Seat Alhambra but need to get a smaller car now. Not the end of the world to take a wheel off but just wondered how small you can go without having to do that. Got lazy being able to bung whole bike in without thinking 🙂

Cheers for the replies.

Rich

Bike length is just shy 190cm and not a lot shorter with the bars turned tbh.

Guess I’m gonna have to take the wheel off or get a bike carrier. Then I can buy a proper 1980s mini!

Rich

Skoda yeti up right both wheels on or a Berlingo does the same trick

No doubting you parkesie, but I’d like to see that yeti. Same load capacity as my old fabia estate, and twice the price at the time, that’s why I never bought one.

Yeti or a roomster are a good shout. Take the centre or one side seat out and a bike will go in pretty easily.

Define ‘in’. A Yaris would work, mine had a canoe ‘in’ it, no dissasembly needed.

I love my crappy old zafira simply because I can stand two bikes up in the back of it.

I can confirm that you can put a fat bike in both a Ford S-max and a Mitsubishi Outlander with wheels on and seat up.

Nae bother.

Hope  this helps

My neighbour has a yeti. My large ibis mojo hd140 doesn’t fit .

If I had anything modern there’s even less a chance.

Fits in a berlingo though .

Fs mtb in a yeti by chris[/url], on Flickr

xl 650b full sus goes in through the boot or the back doors. Yeti is massive

Toyota Yaris Verso – back seats fold flat under the floor – ugly as sin but as it’s a Toyota, very reliable and ours refuses to die. I’d replace if but simply can’t find anything of that size that is as practical.

Large bandit 29r in the back of my Subaru Outback…

Large road bike goes in the back of a 2016 Focus estate.

Mtb might if I pushed the passenger seat all the way forward, but it’s easier to take the front wheel off.

insert pic of jonny 5 here

With front seat pushed forward I used to be able to get my 54 cm road bike into the back of a 5 door Yaris with the wheel on. I don’t think the small Cotic Soul fitted though.

Full 29er size medium in a Suzuki Jimny. Seat down. True story.

I’m with matt on this…

Mx5 convertible. Jam the backwheel between doir and passenger seat. Hook the wheel over the windscreen.

See also any convertible or fully retractable pano roof

MX5 and bike – oh yes…

The problem is that putting a bike in most normal cars with both wheels on is more difficult than taking the front wheel off. I’ve tried it several times, it’s quite hard to drag it into the back. You need a high roof line as you can’t easily turn the bars too.

Most normal cars it’s just too much hassle – get an MPV type car and it’s easier but until you can just wheel it in I wouldn’t bother.

Front wheel off you can put a bike into most cars – it’s not as if it’s hard to remove the front wheel nowadays, no brake to release etc. Just pop the axle out and it just falls out.

Depends on the bike…

I’ve got an avensis estate and a Kia Sorrento 7 seater thing. Have to take the front wheel off my Rallon for both.

I have a seat ateca and can just get my bike in without removing the front wheel, but i have to loosen the stem to turn the bar’s. Way simpler to just pop the wheel off.

I have had 3 bikes in the boot with the front wheels off and seats down but the only problem with this was the 3rd rider had now where to sit. 😁

Peugeot 206 3 door.

My Medium 29er Epic goes in fine with the front seat folded forward without taking wheels off. My medium road bike also fits easily.

Thanks again for the replies.

@matt_outandabout Nice – I was thinking of getting a canoe so good to know it fits!

@dabaldie – Peugeot 206 might be a good shout.

Looks like a Yeti or Berlingo are worth a look too.

Maybe if I take my dirty FS to Mazda garage they’ll let me shoehorn it into an MX5 😉

Cheers guys!

Something I discovered is if you go to Google image search and enter “mtb in a [car name]” then you’re usually sorted!

And ugly isn’t a problem – i’ve been driving a scruffy Alhambra for years. I have no pride left 🙂

Renault scenic with the rear sests out will take a cx bike upright easily.

Or a 26er xc bike lying down easily.

But a 29er fs bike needs the front wheel off.

I only came on this thread to see Jonny 5 jokes so am disappointed that only BigJim has bothered.

Why? What’s so hard about taking the front wheel off?

What I was thinking.  I wouldn’t let the ease of removing a front wheel dictate my options for a car, you must really hate taking that front wheel off.

Why is taking a wheel off more difficult than dropping the rear seats.

I’ve managed to fit a ‘back in the day’ 26″ jump bike on my dad’s Renault 5 but had to remove the rear and and front passenger seats completely.

Honda Jazz. Can get a road bike in with both wheels on no problem. MTB’s even less of an issue.

I can get my hooligan hardtail, an Inbred 567 with 6” Nixons on the front, into the back of my Octavia with just the seatpost taken out and the rear seats down. But small it ain’t, not by any stretch of the imagination!

I once put a Rockhopper in a Smart car.  It went in quite easily, but I really struggled to get it out again . . .

Honda Jazz. Can get a road bike in with both wheels on no problem. MTB’s even less of an issue.

Although a Jazz isn’t that cool I see a lot more younger people driving them now as they are cracking cars and weirdly big inside for luggage/bikes.