Mountain Bike Frames are Wierd

Its coming closer to the weekend and that means closer to our Saturday morning maniacs ride through the mountains near where my buddies and myself live.

So while I am looking forward to it I also don't look forward to the inevitable "loading up the mountain bikes" drama that goes on more weekends than not.

You know what mountain bike frames are like. There aren't two of them that look the same.

So what bikes go in the back of the Ute and what bikes go on the bike rack.

BIKE RACKS ...... are they useless or what ?? Unless you have a 1980's style road bikes; cause there is NO WAY it is an easy job to secure your mountain bike to one of these useless contraptions!

And then you have the riding buddy that is precious about his / her bike. "Oh; be careful; don't scratch my bike while your putting it on the rack". (This is the same person who has at least one tumble every other week and does a great job of carving scratches on body and bike).

I'll tell you one thing about the new mountain bike designs that hit the show room floor almost every other week in this time of mountain bike mania. The designers give absolutely no consideration as to how you are going to transport them to your mountain biking destination.

So my advice to you is to make sure, when you are looking at getting a bike carrier / hitch for your vehicle, make sure you look at getting bike cross-bar adapter. Even if you have a bike that is "almost" the standard front triangle design, if that top bar is not dead horizontal it can make the securing off a group of bikes very hard.

Hint : Who owns those other bikes you carry ? Let them know that this is the time to purchase a little gift for themselves ..... yes, they can own their very own piece of bike carrier real estate by owning their very own bike cross bar adapter.