DIYS Bike Mount

[quote:d1bf73fad7="grimss"]If you want a painless interior bike-storage alternative, I suggest folding the rear seats against the windows, grabbing some tie down cables, and setting one bike against each "seat wall." For each bike: run the cable through the hand-hold bar (no idea what these things are really called) near the interior roof, across the front (really the back) of the seat, and through the metal hook at the floor. Then cinch the cable securely around the front of the bike. This holds the bike tightly against the seat, cushions it against bumps etc, and costs like $2. My husband and I jerryrigged this solution and couldn't believe it worked so well--no movement in the bikes at all, even on an exceptionally rutted road. (You don't even have to remove any tires!) Of couse, you'll want to wipe your bikes down a bit after an off-road ride so that the backs of the seats don't get all cruddy. But, seriously, why would anyone pay what Honda's asking for that interior bike rack when a pratically no-cost alternative is so much easier to use? You won't need to make any interior structural alterations to the E, and when you're back home, you just store the tie-down cables in the back bin for the next trip.[/quote:d1bf73fad7]

Actually you don't even need the rear seats in the E to do this. I bungied both bikes to the "hold-on" rear handles with just looping the bungie around the frame with the front wheels off and they don't move at all. You want to make sure you point the handle bars away from the windows so they don't touch. Otherwise I've noticed you will get annoying tapping noises as my brakes would tap against the plastic before the windows. I was going to do Cole's bike mount but I may not need to. This bungie method really holds even around tight turns. Sorry about the second pic. You can see where the bungies are but the tire is blocking the bike frame. But the bungie cord is looped around top horizontal bar of the bike frame.