Retired98

I have used local Halfords a couple of times with no problems, mainly as they will service / repair any bike. Local shop not really interested unless they sold you the bike. Should never have taken the bike away from the store, that’s shockingly bad,.

We bought e bikes about two years back, and we both try and get out at least twice a week together from spring to autumn, very rarely go out in winter, we just do just short trips and we enjoy it. Only downside is the roads around us are very busy to get to the quiet country roads. Same trips get a bit boring, but we still enjoy getting out. When we finally get transport sorted we are looking forward to taking bikes on holiday with us.

Your right, we never considered the height issue at all. It would not be a good buy for a main vehicle at all. I'm leaving things as they are for now, I've no chance on buying the Citroen. She definitely won't entertain it. So the bikes will stay at home when we go away. Maxi Life very expensive for what they are,and no petrol version.

After a few viewings today the only conclusion we have made is a larger VW transporter type van is the best choice, but something we never gave much thought to is it will restrict us to were we go, as it will be our everyday transport we will have issues with car parks with height restrictions etc. I'm on a losing battle with the Citroen or Peugeot alternative. When we first bought E Bikes I looked at fold up bikes but the ones we saw looked poor build. Thanks for all the help and advice. For time being were just leaving things as they are, I'll keep plugging away with the Citroen, but at the moment the lady is not for turning..

Definitely not looking to put bikes in Horizontal position, would prefer to put them in vertical with both wheels on, but if need be would consider removing front wheel,although it's a bit of a nuisance. We did get a quote for towbar fitted £560, and rack another £400 plus, but I'm not a fan of bikes on racks at all,hence looks Ng for a car / van.

Just back from looking at the Berlingo, it was the 5 seater version, yes I can see it’s possible to get two bikes in, took the measurements of her Wisper with us, unfortunately she absolutely did not like it at all from the start. Afraid that’s a non starter. Plenty more to look over tomorrow and Tuesday.

I will have a look at these as they seem to fit the criteria, although Citroen is a manufacture i have never really bothered with. We have a Citroen dealership a couple of miles away, I’ll try and go with an open mind to view what they have.

Don't quite understand this, we both cope ok getting in and out of our Ford Bmax, the idea is we get something bigger to make it easier to take the bikes and luggage on holidays, or for short breaks and days out. I know a van would be ideal to get bikes in without the hassle of removing the wheel. We have a short list of vans and larger cars like people carriers or SUV's were looking at next week. Taking our time as we need to get this right.

We are off looking at cars / vans next week. A couple of days should be enough, only really look within a 20 mile radius of home. Probably stick to main dealers for the warranty. Plenty of time to see if I can get a shortlist of about 6 over the weekend. must remember to take lots of measurements of the bike with front wheel off to check how easy to fit in car. Thanks for all the advice.

We had looked at a couple of VW transporter type camper vans, only issue was the beds blocked access to putting bikes in through rear doors, and at £25,000 ish ripping the beds out was a bit extravagant. Owned a coach built VW about 16 years back, but found with other half 6’ 3” and me slightly overweight it didn’t suite us, we sold it after 2 years. While I have lost weight, the former is still tall, we actually went to a big Motor Home Dealers near us two weeks back, that completely knocked buying one on the head. A VW Transporter with just one row of seats behind is a strong possibility, or Ford Transit, that is if we don’t find large car which suits. Something which is annoying is while they want to end the sale of Diesel engines, you try and find something like this with a petrol motor.

Thanks but we don't want the bikes on any type of outside rack. I know could spend about £800 / £1000 on getting tow bar and ebike rack for the B.Max. have no idea were you got the roof rack thing from,I never mentioned them at all,we just want the bikes inside the vehicle. Thanks anyway.

I will have a look at the Yeti, first Skoda we had was a Fabia, nice reliable car, although we really fancy something with plenty of room. Will get down to Skoda dealers, and see if I can get more info re the internal bike racks. Thanks for help.

We have qwned e bikes for about 18 months now, she has a Wisper 705t and I'm thinking of getting a Woosh Kreiger to replace my old Raleigh. We want to take our bikes with us on holidays now we are retired, or for weekends away or days out. our Fiesta b max is to small to get them inside with any ease, and neither of us like bike racks at all. So we are thinking of changing the car for something bigger, any suggestions on something which we can get the bikes in easy, I realise I would have to remove the front wheel, not keen on this but it seems to be the only way. Up to now I've looked locally and all I've seen is a old ford Galaxy. Have a healthy budget of about £ 22,000 inc the part ex. I also believe some manufactures sell inside bike racks for there cars, this appeals to us, but not much info available about them. we need something with rear seats for general use, picking family and grandchildren up, but they would be folded down for holidays. Any advice appreciated... Oh and to stop long discussions we do not want a external bike rack at all Thanks