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Subject Topic: fao miserly - roof bars on the camplet? Post Reply Post New Topic
Personkatglasgow
07/10/2012 at 10:51pm
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Hi Miserly - You may remember be, I have only been a camplet owner for a few months but you have more or less taught me everything I know!!! We finally got round to taking the roof bars off our pegeuot 207 and yes you are right, they do not fit on the camplet as they are too wide - very annoyed!!! I think you mentioned a while ago that you had bought thule bars that fit on the camplet, do you happen to know what the model no was please? we will really need to get something over the next 6 months...
so annoying as the feet from our roof bars grip onto the camplet rack fine but they are welded onto the bars so I dont see how we can use them if the bars as too small (its a halfords system - no doubt the thjule system costs even more...).
Thanks in advance if you can offer any help, we are all very keen cyclists so once we have our system up and running it will be well used.
Karyn :)


PersonMiserly
08/10/2012 at 8:42pm
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The bars are 150mm long, Thule 763, but I use clamps from a cheaper set up that came my way. 775 is the Thule number that would do the job,though the cheaper 757 may work. Best pop along to Halfords with a bit of tube and try the 2 out,just don't buy from there! Longer stronger bars are available too,though of course ,not cheap. If you dont intend removing them a lot,you can fix the bars with u bolts,but that would mean drilling the bars.


Personkatglasgow
08/10/2012 at 11:07pm
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Thanks I knew you would know! Like you have suggested I will try em out in Halfords before purchasing. It looks like both sets of feet have locks included which is good. Its just a shame the bars for my car cant be utilised but I suppose we might still use them from time to time.
We are having a long weekend in the tent next week, as so far we have only had I night a way as a practise. Keen to put the tent up again this side of christmas incase we forget how to do it! Cant wait for next year tho to get away more often with the bikes and really make the tent earn it's keep!


Personian r
31/12/2012 at 11:00am
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Hi,
I'd be interested in knowing how you get on with fitting the thule bars. Will the 775 "feet" clamp securely to the luggage bars ? I'm looking to take two bikes to france next year and this looks like a potentially cheaper option to the Camplet own brand cycle carrier.
Thanks,
Ian


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31/12/2012 at 9:36pm
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Ian,if you are anywhere near Stockport,you can borrow the ones I use,Thule bars but cheap clamps. The thing though is they aren't lockable.


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Personkatglasgow
28/4/2013 at 10:03pm
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hi I just wanted to report back that we got the Thule bars 763 and footpack 775 from halfords using an online discount code. We picked the 775 footpacks as they are lockable. We already had some halfords roof mounted cycle carriers which are also lockable and my husband has attachted them to the bars so we are all set forfirst camp of the year next weekend. It looks really neat with the bike on top I am really pleased.

When we go abroad next year we will probably have to leave the bikes on overnight and we will further enhance security by padlocking the bikes diectly to the luggage rack but also you need to park sensibly. My hubby has a ok mountain bike and a very expensive one - we would never leave that one on a bike over night!

Thanks for all your advice was a good cost effective option for us. :-D


PersonMiserly
29/4/2013 at 5:13am
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Glad I could help, enjoy your trip.

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Personkatglasgow
05/8/2017 at 12:02am
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Hi Andrew - information about roof bars in this post. Cheers Karyn

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06/8/2017 at 6:17pm
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Fantastic post. Thanks for all your help all.

Fyi, bearing in mind the cost of both roof bars and then a top box, I am investigating a large roof bag as an alternative. Seems to be much cheaper alternative to buy itself, plus they appear to attach to the Camplet luggage rack - negating the roof bar requirement too.

Won't help with a bike rack requirement though ;)


Personmarchie1053
17/8/2017 at 3:59pm
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We bought the Thule Ranger Softbox 90 for our Raclet Solena. The securing brackets remain permanently mounted inside the Softbox and 4 U-Bolts (only need 20mm or so clearance under the bag to fit them because the bag is hinged so that you just slide the U bolt underneath the bar and then up through the bracket inside the Softbox). Maximum 10 minutes to fit, including strapping in 2 huge kitbags loaded with everything including the kitchen sink - we do take far too much stuff!)

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Can I ask if this is going onto an Gen 4 or Gen 5?

I have a Gen 4 Camplet Concord and would like to put normal roof bars on t so I can use Thule bike carriers. the Camplet ones I got with the Camplet I chucked out because I didn't trust them to keep the bike on the Camplet over a bumpy road.



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