Transporting a cycle

Just got my MX5. I have a triathlon coming up next year and I just wondered if any one had used a cycle carrier to transport a bike on a MX5 or do I need to use my wife’s car.

Depends totally whether youre handy with tools around your bike, pull the wheels and drop or remove totally the saddle and post, slacken the stem and turn the bars sideways, it should unless you’re a huge rider, so huge bike,depending again whether you have long tri bars [a la TT type] fit in the passenger seat with a bit of manouvering, or remove the seat that’s a 10 min job , stick the wheels in the boot, or if you don’t want hassle use your ladys car… I work with and build bikes last TRI one i fixed was Eimear Mullans…again perhaps you’re considering something that hangs it over the boot area…good luck with that… will

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We used to use the Saris Bones to transport bikes on the back of the MX5. You can probably pick one up on ebay.

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Thank you.
My wife nearly choked when I said I was going to take the front seat out.

Experience with bikes and cars means that for me i like to be able to look inside and see it, i have in a long time as a car and bike guy gathered up bikes from the road , not mine, where they had been hung on those racks, yet the people conveying them forgot or didn’t tie them on correctly and the result was a dust pan and brush getting carbon shards off the highway, also i find these days few guys today , office and executive types, have the finger and wrist strength to really tighten up rubber straps or don’t add a few leather toestraps as insurance, to secure expensive machinery on there… anyway if your TT times are not under 25 on a 10 miler on a good road bike, a specialist tri or tt bike is a harder item to use, totally extreme different aero position to learn. etc etc… and the good road bike is easier to load inside…w

Thank you.

I use a road bike with tri bars. Cycling is my weakest discipline. I agree I prefer the bike inside I was just curious to see what others did. I’m new to the MX5. It’s taken a week to find the CD player.

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