Thread: Defender 110 Bicycle rack

Yeah I bought an adaptor plate from a chap in the states, took a week to get here and was a reasonable cost ($80 aus Inc delivery I think).

Happy to take it off and provide it as a template for someone (or you) to make you one.

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Originally Posted by TheEntertainer

looks like the iSi is great, great quality but the price you pay is just not worth it in my opinion. If they drop the price with 20% they will likely sell a hell of a lot more.

Depends how much your bikes are worth I guess :-D

Seriously though, there are probably cheaper options that will work just as well if your driving a few kilometers down the road to the local trailhead, or doing the occasional weekend trip. Our plan is to be able to take out bikes on holidays too, which means extended periods of corrugated roads and low range tracks. And given even our relatively modest bikes are worth a combined total nearing $5k I think the addition few hundred dollars is worth it. And when we win Lotto and have a couple of S-Works carbon duallies, it'll _definitely_ be worth it !

ISI looks very strong. I see they do a two by two, but it does not mention if you can only have as a two bike setup not as four. Anyone out there got one setup like that or modified to do so?

I am leaning towards the ISI as at times I plan to have up to 4 bikes on there and at time that would be also 4 downhill bikes, not just the other lite mtb's I will use too. Though when needed, I want to take off half the rack for just two.

For years I have always carried bikes on their sides on a roof rack. The rack I had on my Series 3 LWB in the 70's and 80's I put on my Defender in the 90's. This rack has a rear ladder so I climb up, put a rope around the seat and bars of the bike and haul it/them up. There were times I would carry 5 bikes at a time (2 adult and 3 kid size). Made it a little dicey and had to watch where I put my feet, bit like a game of twister when I tied them on.
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