1st sighting:
Driving north near Pojaque, I saw a smart car going the other direction with a Yakima hitch mount rack with a dual suspension MTB on the back. It was cattywumpus on the rack with the rear wheel above the roofline of the car.
2nd sighting:
not a week later
Framebuilder and tiny car aficionado Curtis Retrotech Giantman Inglis himself seems to have this set up, seen on his flickr stream click for source.
3rd sighting:
A day after number 2:
This guy in my neighborhood has a homemade rack added to the factory hitch on his Smartcar. Factory hitch! Who wouldathunkit. Note the sweet lustron home in the background.
It is now officially a thing. All the rage. I am going to get a smartcar and festoon it with biketites screwed directly into the plasticky smartcar body and mount as many bikes as I can simultaneously so I can join the fun.
Also, Smartcar v. Bakfiets
update! 4/30/10
From the comments, we received:
This excellent visualization of smartcar bike festoonage:
from reader JRA
And then this most excellent conceptually troubling folding bike on a smartcar:
Caught in california by andy R.
Thank you fellers! I knew it was a thing.
9 comments:
I assume when you are done with the biketites project, the result would look something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/minibikepile
And here's a related highlight from our recent vacation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87686664@N00/4564386187/
JRA,
Almost exactly like that.
Andy R.
Excellent, it hurts my brain just a little.
Both of youse,
Can I include your excellent contributions in the post above?
Yes by all means include above.
Of course, go right ahead.
Smart Cars look good and environmentally conscious... but seem pretty stupid to me. For a car THAT small and rather limited for all purposes recreational/practical, you should get 80-100mph, not the 40-45 ish mph (highway!) that tests/reviews indicate, given you and another body can barely get in the vehicle. Dumb Cars IMO.
Good to know you can sort of carry a bike on one, though :).
Let me know whey you see a "Smart" car on a bike rack...or would that be a car rack?
Aaron
Margo,
I think they make sense if you are single and live in a real city where parking is a much bigger deal. But I I agree that they should get better mileage for such a small car.
Aaron,
Keeping my eyes peeled! I will let you know.
@Margo & @Tarik: Smarts are cool if you need to park them in tight spaces. That's their big #1 and IMHO only advantage. Maybe price, too. Otherwise get a Honda Fit or a Golf TDI!
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