[Joule]

Anybody manage to fit a 54 cm frame road bike in the back with front wheel removed?

 

[mudder]

I've put both a 61 cm AND a 56 cm bike in the back at the same time... plus the wife and all the vacation gear to visit the beach in Florida for a week.

 

[Joule]

Great. Looks like I’ll be doing some riding.

 

[SSSSSS]

Get a Seasucker bike mount. Uses suction to mount to your car. I drove from New York to North Carolina and back with one on my Insight and it's solid as a rock. MPG takes a bit of a hit but not terrible.

 

[Joule]

The good news is I got the bike in the back. The bad news is I have been riding primarily on the flats and my current location is pretty hilly and I have neither the legs nor gearing for it. That will, however, not deter me from riding. I just have to be a little strategic about route choice. Bonus is that all my route roads are freshly paved so those 23 slicks are rolling very nicely.