RE: [Paddlewise] Yakima roundbar slippage/new rack

At 10:10 AM 10/26/99 -0700, Ralph wrote: 
 > 
>I often have wondered why people, when faced with round vs. square, 
>continue to get the round ones, i.e. Yakimas as opposed to Thules.   
The 
>square bars can't roll and they also seem to tighten better inside the 
>towers, at least from my own experience and observation of others. 

I'm a big advocate of the round bars but maybe that's because it's what I
own.  A couple of reasons I like them:

1.) If you have a car with a rounded roofline (think New VW Beetle) you can
still have your attachments perpendicular to the ground as they don't have
to follow the same angle as the towers.  And if your anal-retentive like me
it allows you to get that perfect fit between the saddles and the hull.

2.)  When you're not transporting anything on the roof you can slip the
attachment down and out of the wind (ski racks especially).

3.)  I've compared the weight of a Thule rack to that of a Yakima rack and
the Yakima is much heavier.  So my good 'ol Yankee intuition tells me that
the Yakima has got to be tougher. (No doubt there's an engineer on this list
that will come back spouting technical metallurgical data proving otherwise)


I've had Yakima rack for many years and only since they've come out with
this new design with the slipping bars have they disappointed me.  
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