I recently purchased a new car and my old trunk rack won’t work with my new car (Thule raceway platform) I am looking to add cross bars and a roof rack. I was looking at this rack linked below. I’m guessing this wouldn’t work with my specialized shiv because of the Dow tube being so close to the front wheel. Does anyone have this rack and does it work with a TT bike well? Other suggestions are welcome.
https://www.thule.com/en-us/us/bike-rack/roof-bike-racks/thule-upride-_-599000
I’ve owned both Thule and Yakima roof racks and I’ve used both successfully with TT bikes (Cervelo and Scott mostly). But none were the type you linked to – they were all fork mount and didn’t allow the front wheel to be left on the bike. My anticdotal experience was that the variety of frame, fork and wheel shapes out there meant gripping a TT bike by those elements was a pain. You’d have to constantly adjust the rack every time you mounted a different bike (if it worked at all). I suggest looking at their ThruRide or something similar.
Just my N=1 experience. Worth what you paid for it. YMMV.
I recently purchased a new car and my old trunk rack won’t work with my new car (Thule raceway platform) I am looking to add cross bars and a roof rack. I was looking at this rack linked below. I’m guessing this wouldn’t work with my specialized shiv because of the Dow tube being so close to the front wheel. Does anyone have this rack and does it work with a TT bike well? Other suggestions are welcome.
https://www.thule.com/...hule-upride-_-599000
Why don’t you just go with the conventional Thule roof rack where you take the front wheel off??? I’ve been using the same Thule roof rack of this design for 25 yrs and only ever had the bike fall off once, out of around 15,000 trips, e.g. 2 trips/day300 days/yr25 yrs. Taking the front wheel off and putting it back on to ride is pretty easy. I mean, I’m not a mechanical person at all so if I can do it, pretty much anyone can. 
I am actually going to go that route. I had that set up on my truck before in the bed. Just got used to the style on my car and it was nice to just take the bike off and go.
I can’t take any pictures right now, but the Yakima FrontLoader worked just fine on my tri bike when I wasn’t using a rear disc. I can’t ever go back to wheel-off racks now!
That strap on the back needs to be able to go through the rear wheel. If you are going to use a disc rear wheel, the only roof option I’m aware of is 1up’s roof rack (basically their standard tray with a way to mount it to roof rails).
Edit: The hitch rack is still the best solution. I only roof rack it when I need to carry more bikes than my 3x hitch rack holds.
I have my Thule roof rack that does front wheel off that I bought in 1993 on my car. I LOVE the hitch mount for my wife’s car. Is there any way you can go that route? We can put 2 bikes on the hitch mount and there is no difference in fuel economy (vs no bike) on our Escape. I would put a hitch on my car except I already have the roof rack AND I am hoping to get 2 more years out of this car.
I can’t see how a Shiv wouldn’t work just fine with this rack. The only bikes that won’t work would be an Andean or something, but that wouldn’t work on a fork mounted rack either. I’m using a Yakima Highroad, which is very similar design to the Thule, and it works great. After years of using a fork mount rack, I switched to the Highroad and love it. Got tired of having the front wheels rattling around in the car, and now with disc brakes, I didn’t want to have to play around with an adapter for different bikes.
I agree with this 100% - once you go hitch you never go back!!!
I am surprised no one has talked about 1 up yet.
Seasucker
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Seasucker x2, never going back to trunk racks
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I have been using the same hitch rack for around 28 years. It’s worked on F350’s, Mitsubishi Galant, VW Beetle, Toyota Sequoia, and friend’s vehicles as well.