Bike racks that hold solid at 140mph? No problem!

[54ny77]

This is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_41Ujjv6WUw

[Cicli]

My buddy pitched a Pivot 29er off a roof qith one of those bike chuckers, I mean Sea Suckers. It made it 6 hours down the road before it happened too. I blame that on product error more than install error. Had it happened 10 minutes from home, thats a different story.
I dont trust them.
I saw another set mounted to the glass of a sunroof. That cant be meant to handle a load either.

[Steve in SLO]

Impressive, but what happens if you turn RIGHT?

[weisan]

C'mon guys, if James Bond, or was it Jason Bourne....no, wait, it's Ethan Hunt! If they trust these suckers with their lives and get to the top of a skyscraper, we should too!

[Frankwurst]

Hell I don't want a bike rack that can handle 140MPH I want a car that'll handle 140MPH

[weisan]

Ok, one more and I promise I will get lost.

Speaking of 140 mph....I hit that...once...on my 20-year-old Acura Legend. Scared the hell out of my friend from Holland. We were driving over to do a bike ride. He sworn never to get into a car with me again. He never did. I can't say I blame him.

[carpediemracing]

At least back in 2004-2006 Inno, formerly RV Inno, tested (probably still tests?) all their racks on the Honda high speed test track. All their racks are tested at 200 kph / 124 mph, with bikes on them (no word on what size but as they're a Japanese company I don't know if they'd have a 66 cm frame up there for example).

They also have access to an absolutely nutty off road kind of test track in the same place, I'm going to say there are about 1 foot high bumps staggered along one "path" that the vehicles drive over. They tested their hitch racks on that.

I don't know of any other company that has access to such a track or tests their products in such a manner. Maybe they all do, I just don't know about it.