Shawn Baker wrote: > > Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu> wrote: > > One of the few things I like about SUVs is that most of them are so > > tall that anyone sub-Wayne Hodorowitz can walk under them unscathed. > I'm not sure how tall Wayne is, but being 6'-6", <snip> I think Wayne's about your height. > > Anyway, one sure-fire thing I've found is that having bars that are not > wider than your vehicle will keep you from whacking them when walking > around the vehicle. Most Toyota and Nissan pickups are 5'-0" wide, so > 5' bars will insure that you'll probably whack your knee on the fender > before whacking your bean on the bar. OK, but who wants to have only 48" bars on their car? You can't put 4 kayaks on 48" bars. Oh, you only transport one or two at a time? No problem, then. > Also, align your bars so they're over a door pillar, or over the > hinges, and basically, if at all possible, never put the end of the bar > right over the middle of the opening where people are ducking into and > out of the car. Yakima and Thule have pretty definite ideas about where they want you to put their racks, and they're almost always right over the door. Volvos actually come with a locating home in the middle of the door frame. -- Steve *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 15 2001 - 14:23:31 PDT
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