I now have a set of Enve 8.9 wheels on my P5 and while the setup look seriously beastly and stealth, I now realized that the roof rack strap (which barely held the 808 rear wheel) does not manage to hold that 9 Enve wheel.
What is the solution? Toe straps? Or is there a longer strap for such a situation? I figure that ultra fat MTB tires would encounter the same dilemma.
Herbert
I switch wheelsets. Travel with training wheels, swap them out when I arrive with the race wheels.
I use my trainer wheel, bright orange tire and all. I suppose you could use some other strap, but I figure swapping a wheel takes 10 seconds, so it’s just as easy and leaves my aero wheel more protected inside my car.
I can get the strap into the clamp, but not to the first ratchet point, so I’ve been using a small lock through the hole on the strap. I think I may switch to using one of my left over motorcycle tie downs. It’s the basic OEM tieo downs that they use when shipping mtoorcycles overseas. It uses a basic cam buckle and you can trim the strap to length. All you you need is just to hold the wheel relatively snug to the rail so it can’t jump around. I suppsoe a velcro strap would work too.
Try letting the air out of the wheel before mounting. That may gain you enough back–it worked on a set of Boyd 90mm for me.
It seems that an old school toe strap shall do the same trick. Plus the prize is right.
I use Velcro brand cinch strap I got from my local Ace Hardware. $5 for a pair. Much softer on the carbon than a plastic strap as well.
I use bungee cords
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zip ties work great for me
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I bought a longer strap like this.
http://www.mec.ca/product/5028-386/sherpak-mec-logo-cinch-strap2012/?h=10&f=10&q=strap
I make a big loop over top of my rear hub body and under the wheel tray / gutter. I try to not over tighten the strap, but rather just take out all the slack so that it won’t be bouncing all over the place and out of the gutter.
It’s worked like a charm and I don’t have to fuss with changing out wheels at the side of the road.
Velcro Straps, available at any camping store. They are solid, weatherproof, and cheap. Or, two timing chip straps straps hooked together.
I now have a set of Enve 8.9 wheels on my P5 and while the setup look seriously beastly and stealth, I now realized that the roof rack strap (which barely held the 808 rear wheel) does not manage to hold that 9 Enve wheel.
What is the solution? Toe straps? Or is there a longer strap for such a situation? I figure that ultra fat MTB tires would encounter the same dilemma.
Herbert
Just a note: I know these aren’t your wheels, but if you have a carbon FAIRING bonded to an alloy wheel (such as Flo’s), then the carbon is NOT meant to be structural, and should not be used to “tie down” anything. (Nothing bad happened, but this came at the rec. of the company…)
I went through the same puzzle with my FLO’s and figured it was a bad idea to clamp down on them with the wheel straps even if I could find a way to make the straps reach.
My solution was to transport with the front training wheel (regular strap), and the back wheel axle bungeed to the rack tightly enough to prevent it from hopping around/out of track. Haven’t had a problem yet in 4-5 long highway drives doing it this way. It’s a Thule Sidearm rack so there is the rack arm over the front wheel as well.
Zip tie.
No one should strap them down anyway. It is meant to hold them in place so they can’t bounce out of the tray.
I use the surly junk straps on my fat bike to keep the rear wheel on the tray. they snug down as tight as I would want to crank some carbon rims.
http://www.amazon.com/...words=Inno+bike+rack
oooh. nice rack. didn’t even know something like that existed. just went onto my wish list
I just use a piece of velcro. You can buy rolls at any hardware store for pennies per foot. Use about 12" of the stuff to wrap around the tire, wheel, and carrier. I put mine with the “soft” site against the wheel and the “prickly” side facing out. If you loose it, then cut yourself another piece.
I just use a piece of velcro. You can buy rolls at any hardware store for pennies per foot. Use about 12" of the stuff to wrap around the tire, wheel, and carrier. I put mine with the “soft” site against the wheel and the “prickly” side facing out. If you loose it, then cut yourself another piece.
x2 on the Velcro option.
To Herbert, with all that cool gear on top of your car, just make sure that what is on top of the roof of the car is worth more than what is below the rack. If the car is more expensive than the bike gear, then the money is being spent in the wrong place…that’s my only useful contribution to this thread (…and the mileage on the Garmin bike computer better be higher than what is on the car odometer).
Dev