Advantages: Cheap; Secure; Lockable; Easy to mount a bike Disadvantages: Looks basic
There are all sorts of roof mounted cycle carriers out there, in shiny metals, with curvy clamps, looking like some sort of modern sculpture atop your car. But when it gets down to the basics there is one simple job which they all have to do: hold your bike safely and securely.
The Thule 575 is a perfect example of a product which does exactly what it's supposed to do, with very little fuss, and for incredibly reasonable value.
Use of this carrier is simplicity itself. The front and rear wheels of the bike sit in plastic cradles at either end of the carrier, you lift the central arm up so that the clamp is around the downtube on the bike (the one that runs down from the front of the bike to the cranks) and you close the lever to clamp tightly. The wheels are then secured by straps around the cradle which 'ratchet' into place ...
Advantages: Strong Frame and Wheels, Tyres do not let go Disadvantages: None really!!
Bought this bike with my work cycle to work scheme.
A great buy from Halfords.
Excellent speck for the price and a very strong bike. I'm 18st 10 (253 ibs) and in my opinion this bike can handle this weight easily.
Great colour Black with like a Pearlesent White, Very good speck components, Shimano Deore derauillers and Sram Truvatic Crank.
Hydrolic Brakes and Discs. These will stop you instantly and do tare a little time to get used to or a flight over the bars could come along. These sqeak when covered in Muck and Water for the first few occasions, but when used this disapates.
Wheels are Alex DP17 rims, Strong, Maxxis Ingnitor Tyres Grip like hell.
Suntour XCR forks are ok for Cross Country riding, Not a great Jump fork, but hey Im no Jumper! (I think that if yoiu are lighter than me you could have some safe landings with these ...
Advantages: Decent size, good price, great for Mew, looks good Disadvantages: None for us
For those of you who have enjoyed stories about our cat Mew you're in luck because here he is again! As some of you know he was a stray who adopted us in May of this year and has given us lots of laughs and lots of fun. In turn we have looked after him well, feeding, grooming, worming and keeping the fleas away.
We decided that our next step had to be getting him electronically chipped. We needed to be certain that, if anything ever happened to him when he was out exploring and hunting, we could be contacted. To get this done we made an appointment with the vet and then needed to purchase a pet carrier.
We started by looking in Pets at Home where the ones we wanted were between £20 and £25 so we thought that we would take a look in the Argos book and found an even better carrier for a much cheaper price!
We chose the Blue Pet ...
