Roof Bars for the Passat

By John Swindells 29 May 2006 | Comment
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Now that the Passat has proved its worth, we need to fix some roof bars to it so we can carry all our bikes.

Roof Bars

The car is a '96 N, and has roof rails. However, we don't know whether the rail-mount bars you can buy will work for our Passat. The two Thule fittings (the 750 non-rail design has the hook part; the 755 rail design has no hook) are pictured here, and are £80 - £100 per pair.

Apparently the Thule system comprises three parts for a complete roofrack, and for our Passat these are:-

The cheapest places we've found online for these parts were: The Halfords store in Norwich wanted around £110 for these parts.

Cycle Carriers

What we actually need is a tandem bike carrier. Members of the Tandem Club reccommend Pendle bars, in two versions:
  • the PENDLE T-Bar Tandem Rack which requires front wheel removal
  • the Pendle Tandem Rack - "keep both wheels on"
Both these racks are priced at £150 or so, so not cheap. EBay UK also drew a blank, so quite a specialist item.

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