Adding rails to factory Roof Rack for bikes
I was reading that the factory rack is not held on very well and then I
was looking at some of the roof rack bars that clamp to the factory rack and noticed that some of them just hook over the factory rack and clamp together. So theoretically you could clamp the bars so tight that they rip the factory rack off of the roof? I have a 1998 S-10 Blazer with a factory roof rack and I want to upgrade it to cary 3 bikes now and then in a few years a 4th bike (small child now). I would like to get a Yakima or a Thule but they seem so expensive for ocassional use. Does anyone else have a blazer with a roof rack that has added bars. Yakima had lowriders, thule has a similar product. These appear to clamp around the factory rack. Pro-Line has one http://www.a1-autoracks.com/proline-...crosspars.html Does anyone have one of these? Or should I not attach to the factory rack at all? Anyother source suggestions? Or compelling reasons to get the Yakima or Thule? What bike holders do you reccommend? I do not have quick release wheels so I do not want to take them off. Thule looks better than Yakima in this respect. Any preferences? Any others? Thanks Mark |
We had a '95 Blazer with Yakima towers and crossbars clamped onto the
factory racks. The factory racks were sturdy enough to support two 14' kayaks and gear without a problem, and we did that for 8 years with that truck. The only thing I didn't like about the Yakima system at the time were the round cross bars. I think sqare or flat profile bars would have been better but we got a deal on the Yakima rack from the store when we bought my wife's kayak so that's what we went with. The wife now has a Kia Sorento which is taller than the Blazer and therefore harder to load the kayaks onto, but I own a Chevy Silverado so that is what we use to haul the kayaks with now. The Yakima racks are now just taking up room somewhere in my backyard shop. Cheers - Jonathan -- Jonathan A. Race Lieutenant, EMS Supervisor Orange County (FL) Fire Rescue Department (This message may contain personal opinions and/or information not related to my employment or employer) wrote in message oups.com... I was reading that the factory rack is not held on very well and then I was looking at some of the roof rack bars that clamp to the factory rack and noticed that some of them just hook over the factory rack and clamp together. So theoretically you could clamp the bars so tight that they rip the factory rack off of the roof? I have a 1998 S-10 Blazer with a factory roof rack and I want to upgrade it to cary 3 bikes now and then in a few years a 4th bike (small child now). I would like to get a Yakima or a Thule but they seem so expensive for ocassional use. Does anyone else have a blazer with a roof rack that has added bars. Yakima had lowriders, thule has a similar product. These appear to clamp around the factory rack. Pro-Line has one http://www.a1-autoracks.com/proline-...crosspars.html Does anyone have one of these? Or should I not attach to the factory rack at all? Anyother source suggestions? Or compelling reasons to get the Yakima or Thule? What bike holders do you reccommend? I do not have quick release wheels so I do not want to take them off. Thule looks better than Yakima in this respect. Any preferences? Any others? Thanks Mark |
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