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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier
This item was purchased, because I already have 1 Thule upright bike carrier and like it. It is an older style, but similar. The thing that I like about the upright roof carriers is that if someone hits your car from behind, your bikes are not destoyed too. Also, the upright ones are secure and "stay" there, and the front wheels do not have to be taken off and...
Published 22 months ago by Caree
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Great item, needs modification
This bike rack works well once it is mounted. The description of the item did not mention that it needed to be mounted on the Thule roof rack adapter. I ordered only the bike rack. I hoped that the rack would mount directly to my Toyota Rav4's factory roof rack. I've since been looking at other factory roof racks, and have noticed that most of them have airplane...
Published on May 25, 2007 by David E. Eves
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Great item, needs modification, May 25, 2007
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
This bike rack works well once it is mounted. The description of the item did not mention that it needed to be mounted on the Thule roof rack adapter. I ordered only the bike rack. I hoped that the rack would mount directly to my Toyota Rav4's factory roof rack. I've since been looking at other factory roof racks, and have noticed that most of them have airplane wing-like bars which go from side to side. These bars are about three inches in width, and the hardware on the Big Mouth Bike Rack is set up to fit the Thule adapter, which has bars little more than an inch in width. Instead of ordering the adapter, I spent a day tooling my own mounting hardware. This gives the bike rack a much cleaner look, and sets the rack and bike closer to the roof, making it easier to load and unload. The second problem is that the end caps come off much too easily. Other than these problems, the rack works well, and is easy to load and unload.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier, October 15, 2008
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
This item was purchased, because I already have 1 Thule upright bike carrier and like it. It is an older style, but similar. The thing that I like about the upright roof carriers is that if someone hits your car from behind, your bikes are not destoyed too. Also, the upright ones are secure and "stay" there, and the front wheels do not have to be taken off and reconnected and brakes readjusted. A lot of bother if wanted to just take the bikes off and ride. I do have to have a little stool to reach my Jeep roof, but it is claspable and stores in my Thule carrier box. So, yes, the Thule box and 2 upright bike carriers fit on a Jeep Cherokee.
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[ASIN:B0001HACDM Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier]
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Great OEM Volvo bike rack - great for oversized frame tubes, September 12, 2008
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
Great rack that fits my Volvo V70 removable sport bars. This rack is well built, very easy to operate from the ground. It securely clamps the oversized aluminum tubes of my son's trek. I have noticed a slight decrease in fuel mileage over using a wheel off bike rack.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
great!, July 2, 2008
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
This bike rack was easy to install, and it is easy to use. No need to take off a wheel, the bike is very secure up there.You do need to have the thule roof rack to use this bike rack. It's just the bike rack, not the roof bars.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
EASY TO UNSTALL AND USE!!!, May 29, 2007
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
This bicycle carrier is awesome. It folds down when not in use. It is very easy to attach a bicycle to it. We like our a lot.
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Thule Bike Rack, July 27, 2010
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
Great bike rack. We just drove all the way to Bend Oregon and back home, a 10 1/2 hour trip each way. The rack held our bikes securely and kept us worry free the whole trip.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Thule Big Mouth - Average but not Great, June 5, 2010
This review is from: Thule 599XTR Big Mouth Upright Rooftop Bicycle Carrier (Sports)
I gave two stars because I've had to make modifications to two Thule products to make them all work together AND you have to keep on shelling out money for everything to work as you want them too. Obviously, the engineers at Thule haven't tried putting combinations of products in play to see their compatibility. I have the Big Mouth, the Thule roof supports that it sits on, and the Thule fairing. I bought the supports, then the Big Mouth so I can haul my road and off road bike, and then I had to shell out for the fairing because of the howling wind noise. The major issue is that when you combine all three you have to begin modifying. Due to the straps from the fairing, the long levers that hold the Big Mouth and the long bike strap levers all get in the way of each other. To solve this issue I had to cut off half of the bike strap lever AND (since that wasn't enough) I had to cut off the lever that secures the Big Mouth to the supports. In the end, it's a good product made less than average because Thule obviously didn't try it with different combinations of their other products (which you'll be forced to buy - ugh) and that's frustrating...for a product to be great it comes down to the details and no need for the customer who paid $$ to put in extra work to make things work...Thule has yet to figure this one out.
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