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Hello folks
Hoping someone can help with this one.
In the market for a new bike (first one in years) but there are no trails local to me so its going to involve a drive.
Only problem is my car is a 2012 Peugeot 107 and I'm not sure a bike will fit in the back. I don't have any riding mates to ask if I can try getting their bike in the car and my road bike will be pretty different (I suspect) to a mountain bike. I'll probably be ordering online so it'll be a pain if I get one that then won't go in the back of the car and I have to send it back.
Anyone here with a 107/C1/Aygo that knows if a bike will fit in (seats down, passenger seat pushed forward etc)?
Thanks
Fit a Saris bones rack or rock bros suction one?
It's a tight fit. Recently got my Brother Cycles "Big Bro" in our Aygo. It was a wheels off, seat post out job and a right squeeze. It was a very uncomfortable journey in the passenger seat with it slid right forward! But it did fit.
I can fit my Vitus Sommet or my Spesh Diverge, wheels off, back seats down in Mrs Fazzini's Kia Picanto. In fact, I got the Diverge in last time with just the front wheel off, but it was only me in the car with it.
Mines a 108 but much and such the same. and I got the below in. And on using a rockbros rack + the requisit toddler
If your short you may get a small bike in but my cutty won't go in with both wheels and saddle out. It was a fight even getting the frame/forks in when I bought it.
115 quid fits on nearly any car and I still got 55mpg between Aberdeen and linn of de+back with bike on roof.
Large cotic rocket fits with the wheels off, just
We’ve got a ‘08 107. Had to push the passenger front seat forward and tilt the seat back forward as well to get my 29er enduro bike in, with both wheels off.
Inevitably, with the seat back tilted, (as if someone was getting in the back rather than just adjusted a few degrees), the seat wasn’t secured so would move fore and aft when braking or accelerating so I’d stuff something behind the seat to soften the movement!
Bought roof bars and put the bike on top now. Much easier for transporting it.
It will fit if you take both wheels off. I use to get 2 adult bikes in a Fiat 500, with a tent, 2 chairs, sleeping bags, a passenger, cooking equipment, food, pillows, etc. All in the back with no rack. Ruined my back doing it, but it does fit.
Ruined my back doing it, but it does fit.
Where did you sit.
I used to get 2(downhill) bikes and 2 passengers in a mk3 fiesta. Forks used to sit behind the front seats dropped in the footwells.
The folded down back seats of the 108 meet the backs of the front seats. Which means I have to try and fit it diagonal to get the length needed.....which means wheels out and saddle out. And the handbars are at the front passengers head.
Where did you sit.
Didn't need to adjust or move the front seats. But then I'm 5ft4 so it was pretty easy.
I use to get 2 adult bikes in a Fiat 500
26ers with narrower bars than the modern standard?
Ah small frames then. Makes sense. I'm 6ft 3 with an appropriately sized frame hence it's a good deal harder
My scruffy little 107 last Friday on the way to Sherwood with my (admittedly small) RocketMAX in the back. Wheels off and passenger seat slid forward but still upright.
Have had two enduro bikes, riding kit and a passenger in there in the past.
I do have new replacement vinyl stripes ready to put on - they've only been sat in the garage for 18 months now...
That looks promising. Got to get my 27.5 trail bike in an Aygo next sunday after riding the Pennine Bridleway. Son will be picking me up from a mates house after beers and pizza after completing the bit we are doing, so need to get two people and a bike in. Wheels off and dropper dropped should be fine.
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That looks promising. Got to get my 27.5 trail bike in an Aygo next sunday after riding the Pennine Bridleway. Son will be picking me up from a mates house after beers and pizza after completing the bit we are doing, so need to get two people and a bike in. Wheels off and dropper dropped should be fine.
Yeah, forgot to mention that the dropper needs to be down.
Thanks for the information everyone. Thankfully it'll be just me in the car so should be able to push the passenger seat forward. It's also the 5dr version although I doubt that makes any difference.
5 doors will help a lot when you're trying to manoeuvre the bike into position!
I read this thread somewhat ironically... I did most of my mountain biking in the last 10 years in hatchback cars, I'd regularly squeeze two bikes, two of us, and a load kit in a MK1/Mk2 Ford Focus 3 door, Citroen DS3, BMW 1 Series, and think nothing of it.
I now have a Nissan Navara pickup, mountain bike less than I have for a long time, and when I do, it's still a front wheel out job, plus I have to remove dog crate and boxes of work stuff I carry around with me. It used to just be a case of whipping the parcel shelf out and folding the back seats flat...
I’d regularly squeeze two bikes, two of us, and a load kit in a MK1/Mk2 Ford Focus 3 door, Citroen DS3, BMW 1 Series, and think nothing of it.
all of those are vastly capacious compared to a 107/108.
A DS3 is smaller than you'd think owing to all of the over inflated interior crap.
oh i dont doubt it but it still has seats for 5. The 107/108 only has 4 - and even then they are narrow.
great little car but it really is smaller than most folk realise.