[Closed] how do you carry your bikes IN your vans?

[quote=geordiemick00 ] I'm wanting something better than leaning it against ply lining and tying with bungee type solution. Why?

Why?

not sure it's good for the bike? Scraping about and rubbing against wood or the bungee.

Up against ply with bungee works for me. Why complicate things.

When you use a nice soft bungee to hold it in position, it isn't rubbing anywhere

Mines carpet lined so no rubbing on ply. Sticking a carpet door mat in strategic places would achieve the same though. I use a ratchet strap around the bars/axle to secure to one tie-loop by the rear hatch and use another strap to tension the bike by the rear wheel to the tie down loop behind the passenger seat. Works for me.

Mine is at the less solid but very quick to use end of the scale.

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Bungee placings aplenty. If carrying multiple bikes, just put an old blanket between them.

I normally have them upside down on a pice of old carpet underlay, with a pair of ratchet straps over the top to stop movement (dont over ratchet it though!). New van should be here soon, and thats getting a 5 bike pull out shelf 🙂

Hard to beat bungees!

In my old van I had two in place like this:

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In my last van I had one bungy in the middle, just behind the door opening. Permenantly there, vertically. Roll bike in, push front wheel into the corner, pop bungy round the saddle nose and done.

Current one is a kombi, bike diagonal, bungy on headrest posts round the saddle, blanket to protect more than one. Simple and fast - that's the point of a van. If you are taking wheels off, you may as well have a people carrier or estate!

Got a mattress in the van for the bike.

Just lay it down on it.

Another one for bungee against the side or behind rear seats.
I have a few old towels in there too for padding between bikes, often have mine & wifes mtbs or road bikes bungeed in there.
Had more damage caused using the fancy Thule towbar rack we have for her car that supposedly keeps the bikes separate.

One of those cheap bike holder things on the bulkhead - shove the bike in backwards into the holder, turn bars 90 degrees and a bungee if you need it to stop the front from rolling about. 30 second job.

We use webbing straps - tighter and stiffer than bungees. No rattle or rub.

bikes a made for chucking down mountains and your worried about a bit of bungee?

fwiw i use a ratchet strap too, bike doesnt budge and no faffing about taking wheels off.

Bungee straps all the way, leant against the side with the pedal horizontal and wedged against the wheel arch.
Pretty sure I piece if ply is going to less damage to a bike than any amount of trail damage can do!

Mine is a work Van so has to carry other stuff, if it was just a personal weekend Van then you get some sort of bike stand that they display bikes at the shop bolted down

I use a metal gutter which is basically a central support beam from a double bed turned upside down to hold the tyres, then luggage strap it to the side of the van, v stable, no rubbing. Tried other more elaborate methods in the past which fan's the cab test. This is quick simple and stable

I use one of the kids old ski mitts over the bar end that's against the ply, and 2 old knotted inner tubes (to shorten them) over the seat post to each and of the handlebar to keep them straight - makes it much easier to top and toe the bikes with an old quilt between.

Bungees for me, but I do put an old brown woollen army blanket over the bike first - firstly to 'disappear' the bike, second to stop rubbing. I use wide flat bungees (Halfords?) rather than the round ones.