What about quick release wheels? You can easily fit a bike in a compact car or two if it's something like a Mazda 3 / Prius
I only own a compact and I use it for camping, mountain biking, dog hauling, etc. very regularly. I have utterly destroyed the interior of this car. The carpets are coming off of the floor, the seats are a mess, the headliner is well past what I can clean with a vacuum. The tabs that the bumper mounts to no longer exist, the drip tray under my motor lost a couple of mount points, etc.
Absolutely will be buying a truck in the near future for these purposes- and selling this compact to a high school student or somebody else willing to drive a ragged out hybrid.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck
by ubermonkey on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:02AM
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The annoying thing is that, at least in the US, trucks are just getting bigger and bigger.
Small / compact trucks like the Toyota Tacoma have become much bigger, and other models like the Ford Ranger disappeared and have been reintroduced in larger sizes.
This is annoying, because the previous gen size of the Ranger (e.g.) is a really great and useful size. Most people who could use a truck don't need the giant "full size" models, and yet the market ignores them.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck
by JC5413789642675 on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:22AM
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Hard to hose out the trunk or interior of a sedan after a dirty day of mountain riding.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck
by ubermonkey on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:59AM
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You CAN, but it SUCKS, and it leaves little room for other humans or other items. Plus, it's super hard on the interior.
If you do this a lot and can afford it, a larger vehicle is a great option.
However, in my immediate social group, there are LOTS of smaller trucks or smaller SUVs, mostly because of the practicality for bicycling trips. Sure, you can do a roof rack or a hitch rack, but if you want to go out to the hill country with you and your wife and both MTB and road bikes, you find yourself wishing for a truck bed pretty fast.
There's lots of overlap in this group with other outdoor activities -- camping, hiking, some fishing, a very small amount of hunting -- that reward actual trucks. My friend J has a full-size (read: HUGE) Ford with back seats and a long bed, and uses the HELL out of it, since he travels back and forth to Colorado with bikes pretty frequently.
But he and his wife also have a VW they use for most urban driving. ;)