Saturday 21st January 2017

Mountain bike vs. Jaguar: PH Videoblog

You can't fit a bike in an F-Type - would you really stick it on with suction cups though?

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With a thriving Pedal Powered forum and several of us here at PH mad into cycling, the combination of cars and bicycles isn't quite as incongruous as you might think. Same in the car industry, engineers like Andreas Preuninger, seemingly all of the guys at BMW M and many, many more as ready to talk push bikes as they are cars over dinner on press launches.

From fast estate cars to big pick-ups there are plenty of four-wheeled options for carting your bikes to nice places to ride them too, the added bonus being that the best places to do that are often accessed by some stellar drives. With a little creativity you can squeeze a bike on - or in - some surprisingly small and/or sporty cars too - here at PH we've fit a downhill mountain bike into a Toyota GT86, road bikes into Ferrari FFs and more besides. With all those spiky/oily/muddy bits it's not always ideal though, hence our keenness to try out the Sea Sucker Talon bike rack, a suction-mounted set-up that has the potential to combine your two- and four-wheeled loves and help you get the most of that valuable weekend 'me' time.

Would you really trust a bike worth potentially several grand on paintwork worth many more to a simple suction cup? The Talon comes in at a reassuringly expensive £349.99 and with all manner of comforting testimonies from happy customers willing to share their exploits on the @Sea_Sucker Instagram feed. On it you'll see bikes stuck to R8s, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, McLarens, GT-Rs, 911s and more besides. Suitably inspired we wanted to try it out for ourselves. And so Dan took his precious Orange Five mountain bike, his much-loved Jaguar F-Type S Coupe long-termer and set out to see if Sea Sucker really could bring them together in a match made in heaven...

Watch the video here

 

[Beefmeister]

Interesting video, looks like a very easy solution. I see 'your' F-Type has the carbon roof, I'd be somewhat nervous about doing this with the glass panoramic roof.

I had an older V6S press car and my photographer attached his long boom to the glass roof via suckers and the glass cracked. Worth thinking about if you have a glass roofed car!