I'm getting a new car and eying off a Tracklander or Rhino Pioneer platform. Never having used any system other than two bars, I was wondering if my worries about affecting rocker when I they are strapped down are just the paranoid delusions of a madman?

Keep walking, thedrip, and don't make eye contact?

Or legitimate concern?

MickPC said...
Your asking a man who just ties his boards down with cray pot rope

Real men should know how to use rope.

And tie a full Windsor.

If you can't tie knots tie lots

A mate of mine just put one on his prado and it looks the business and our short boards seem to go on fine. Mind you it may be a different story with some of your big boards Drip. What length pioneer are you looking at? if it's only 1500mm or thereabouts there should only be a minimal amount of rocker affected.

thedrip said..

MickPC said...
Your asking a man who just ties his boards down with cray pot rope

Real men should know how to use rope.

And tie a full Windsor.

But rope if tied to tight will make more damage to your rails then a flat strap, IMHO..

A good thread though, as i often look at peoples surfboard stacks and wonder how the hell they stay on. I micro set them up and still panic most of the time


This is how we head to Albany with 2 sups and 5 boards. All up about 115 kilos and my roof racks are technically rated to only 100kilos. I have been toying with a third bar (Cross member, to be with in safe weight range,) but i have also worried about the rocker of the boards and wondered if its even necessary..

surfbroker said...
I like the Yankee saying..

"If it aint broke, don't fix it"

Rola Racks and straps..have never lost a board

It's an attempt to regain some much needed storage as I move from dual cab to a wagon. We do heaps of long term wilderness camping in the north west and south east.

On the dual cab I had rhinos over the cab and a basket over the canopy.

I have a 2.1m rhino platform and just stick a small foam tube under the boards near the nose, works a treat.