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I love the every growing random text generation names of all these Chinese "brands".

Is there anyone near or around SE27 who has a Thule bike carrier that attach to roof bars for a carbon bike I could buy or borrow? I have 2x steel ones, but now have a carbon bike. Thanks

The carrier is the same, carbon or not. There's an adaptor for carbon frames, but essentially it's just a piece of thick rubber that wraps around the downtube

There is a difference between ProRide 591 and 598 where the latter has a soft rubberised yaw and a torque limited ratchet, so overall better for carbon bikes.

Well, yes, but the 598 came out nearly a decade ago so I presumed we were talking about that. My point was Thule also sell a carbon frame protector thingy which wraps around the frame, there's not a carbon or non-carbon carrier

Thanks, I have the really old clamps, which compress from the sides, but the 591 and 598 are what I need. Will get one on order, Thanks

A question for the taller gentleman- bikes over 130cm wheelbase and wheel on carriers, which have you used that work? Looking at the Thule and it says it’s max is 130cm and I’m just over

My G16 is around 1330, and fits on a Thule 598... just. With both trays maxed out to the ends, the front wheel slightly hangs off the front tray. Once it's all cranked down, it's no issue and I've done 4+hrs of motorway driving and potholed country lanes with no issue.

On a related note, my eeb arrives tomorrow and it is significantly too heavy to go on the roof. I'd rather not have a boot mounted rack, so unless anyone knows of a roof mounted rack that can hold more than 25kg, let me know.

Otherwise I'm gonna have to stick it in the boot with the wheel off.

Thanks- that’s useful. It appears the Thule guidance says 1235mm as the maximum so there’s clearly around 100mm of wiggle room.

I was planning on using 599’s, with a stated maximum of 1300.

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We upgraded from the Thule euro classic to the Epos

It is so much easier to use, we struggled to the get the arms and claws on the euro classic to grip large carbon frames.

It is quicker to use, much more secure and folds up when it is off the car.

Another shout for the Epos. Much easier to use than the velospace I have used before. Also works with longer wheelbases more comfortably.

One tip with long wheelbase bikes on the older Thule racks is to buy the fat bike adapter. They are just longer wheel straps designed for bigger tires, but they also make it easier to strap in bikes with wheels further from the centre point of the rack.

Probably cheaper to get there than pay for the subscription, to be fair

Long shot, don't suppose anyone has a 475lbs EXT C65 coil spring they're looking to get rid of?

It's £6.99 a month and you can cancel at any time.

I'm just not interested in paying for something if Rob Warner isn't involved

I'm carrying my XL Honzo ESD (which the geo chart says should have a 1285mm wheelbase but it is slightly overforked so might be a bit higher) in a good old Proride 591, but with the following provisos,

1. I moved the bit with the arm back (to move the aluminium tray and front plastic wheel tray forward) further than Thule say you should.
   
2. Even with the above, the plastic tray for the front wheel was still hanging waaay off the front of the aluminium tray.
   
3. Even with both of the above, the front wheel was barely on plastic tray and the strap only just fit over the tyre.
   
4. Even with all of that, it had been fine for quite a few trips... but going up the a9 to the Cairngorms a couple weeks ago it was really windy and my front wheel pulled the plastic tray almost right out of the aluminium tray and the wheel flopped to 90deg. My solution for this was to turn the wheel 180 deg and that put it far enough back that the plastic tray engaged the aluminium tray completely and it's been fine like that since including driving around in the cairngorms and coming back down the a9 at the end of the week.
   
   

Thule says the max wheelbase for the 591 is 1255mm so my experience is that their figures are somewhat conservative.

BTW, what size are you/how slack is your bike that your wheelbase is over 1300mm? I thought my Honzo was an oil tanker of likely unparalleled length!

I've considered airing down the fork to put it on the rack, or building a boost hub onto a bmx rim and fitting that and sticking the 29er wheel inside the car.

Maybe. Will need to check the shed

You can unbolt the 591 main clamp (x2 allen bolts on the underside) and slide it back to fit a longer wheelbase and make use of the rearwards unused tray space.

Ignore me - just read you've done this

Fingers crossed! I'm between Rockshox spring weights, annoyingly. I already have 3 EXT springs, but for a much longer stroke shock, also annoyingly.

Yeah, the Thule manual gave a dimension which wasn’t to be exceeded with this though, and mine was already at that from the factory but I can’t see what ill can come of pushing it a bit, as I have.

It's an XL Raaw Madonna - I don't think it's unusually slack, but the rear end is longer than many and it's in the longest setting. The bike is 205cm from prow to stern.

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