Now that I am a proud buggy owner, I Need to ask how others transport theirs?

I thought my thule rack would fit but Nooooooo.. The da*n fit kit is the wrong one! Of couse for another $55 I can buy new ones. Add that to the buggy price and my new helmet price and you come out with a couple of night on the couch alone!

So crafty ones, how do you transport? I have a 93 volvo 850.

My old school, straight sided ,flexi bug can fit in the back seat of my SX-2.0 ( Neon ) with just one bolt to undo. The down post bolt. If I remove the wheels it fits under my bed !
The down point is that with the straight side rails I sit very low and end up bumming out a lot

Modified bike racks are pretty common.

there is guy in the park where I go landkiting, who carries a buggy that folds and he puts it on his back, and then he gets on his by bicycle to go back home.

he's full kyoto 100%

i have no idea what buggy brand this is.

Custom trailer hitch mounted rack is the best bet, JEllis knows the ins and outs of these, I've also carried a full BF Libra buggy on a roof rack, use one for snowboards, the sort that sit the board flat in line with the roof, clamp a peice of plywood in the snowboard rack, Bungee the buggy on top of the plywood. I carried the BF buggy over 5 hrs on the highway this way.

Just a note, you should never bungee anything to a car roof. Use rope instead, bungee streatched to it's fullest is far weaker then you think and gets weaker with age. Lesson learned from experience

I had the same thought, but didn't have time to respond before. Usually, there is a warning to not use the bungee to secure anything heavy or that can shift or catch wind. The buggy on the roof is really all those things. Not only is the bungee weak at its limit but the buggy would develop momentum as the bungy was stretching. I would rather have a winch strap that would be easy to tighten real snug. Use the flex in the tires to compress against and that will keep it still. You would have a HUGE liability if it came off your car and hurt someone.

I built a rack out of wood that fits on top of my car's existing roof rack. Originally built it for my Kite Trike, now modified for my wide-axle Flexi.

It is built in two sections, one for the back axle and one for the front of seat/ downtube juncture. Each section's outer "feet" sit on top of the longitudinal rails of the rack, and each section has a wooden cross beam built in the form of an inverted "U" section that straddles the car rack cross-bar and is held captive to it with a bolt running fore and aft through the wood channel and under the cross bar. (held on with a finger tight wing nut.)

Each section's foot has a piece that sits inside the rack rails and has a 1/2' long pin pointing outwards into the bold channel that runs longitudinally aloing the inside of each rack rail. thus there are 2 methods to secure the rack. Failsafe.

The back axle sits in "U" shaped cut-outs at the top edge of each foot, and is held captive by aluminum bars that bolt fore-and-aft over the opennings.

In the center of the front piece is a notched pedestal that holds the downtube where it joins the seat. I do run a bungee over the top but it is not the primary means of securement- the back axle is real secure.

It can be made from plywood and lumber in a weekend with a power drill, circular saw and hacksaw.

I can get photos if you want.

i have seen angus buggy carrier and i can vouch that its great very ingenious

Here is a simple drawing of a receiver hitch mod that a lot of buggiers in our area use. If you have a receiver hitch on the back of your vehicle you may be able to modify something like this to work.

I know that the drawing shows a truck...and you could just stick the buggy in the back. lol It is more to show how and where the hitch and buggy sits.

The nice thing about this hitch is that it is very simple to take off after use and takes up very little room when stored.

Hope this helps.

Mine folds up into a backpack (i'll post some pics of it folded up later)

Unfortunately my tires fill my whole trunk, so not many options, going to get one of Jon's racks or make up a similar one myself.

I ended using a standard bikerack trunk mounted. The buggy sits exactly on it as the diagram for a bumper hitch in the post above shows. I use 1 rachet strap and I am good to go. I found the roof mount was not going to work due to the rear axle being wider then my rack!

I saw Jellis' original rack and way inproved on it, from what I understand he has and is, continuing to upgrade his. Here is my buggy rack.

http://sports.webshots.com/album/561717081alHaHO

Brad

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