Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu> wrote: >(/accent on "Installation instructions? I spit on your lousy >installation instructions!" /accent off :) ) *big chuckle* >I wasn't even sure it was possible to put the bar over the pillar, but >I just went out and looked at the Accord, and you sure could. It >reduces your spread, but it's doable. My wife has a Subaru Legacy Sedan, which is shaped similarly to the Accord. Yakima's instructions have you put the bar almost over the front pillar, which is slightly forward of the head-cracking/forehead splitting area. Custom bars are probably the only way a person could get a good rack spread with long bars and avoid having to wear a helmet to drive. I guess if I had my druthers, I'd go for bar spread and risk the "actual "headache, rather than having a narrower spread with more reliance on bow and stern lines and risking the figurative headache of having a boat twist off and slide down the road! I'm hooking my welder up this weekend, so maybe I'll have to see if I can build a custom rack that will have 5' or longer bars with a 6' spread, and mount it to the Legacy with the Q-towers I already have. Shawn Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Oct 20 2001 - 11:06:49 PDT
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