When you need to transport a bike (or two or three), you might not want to try and shove them into your car. Dirty chainrings and interior finishes don’t go together very well, even if that’s not an issue, getting a bike into a car isn’t exactly easy. You need a better solution and there is nothing that’s simpler than a trunk-mount bike rack.
It doesn’t matter what kind of car you have, there’s an option available to you among the best bike racks for cars. You don’t have to worry about installing a hitch, as you do with a hitch-mounted rack, nor do you need to worry about what the top of your roof looks like, as is the case with the best roof bike racks. Your vehicle is (almost) unimportant in the conversation. The designs for trunk-mount racks are clever enough to work with whatever gets you around.
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A design classic, the Bones is available for 2 or 3 bikes in multiple versions to suit different cars and carrying needs.
The Thule Outway includes a platform, so your bikes are well supported and you won’t block your number plate.
Decathlon’s carrier is low-priced, but still has space for three bikes, which sit high up, so you’ll save on a separate number plate board.
The Hollywood Express carrier folds down small, so you can put it in your trunk and it won’t take up too much space if stored at home.
The Hollywood F2 is designed to work on cars with a spoiler, holding the bikes a little further from the bodywork to provide space.
The Yakima rack boasts an anti-sway strap that should help hold…
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