To get the bike racks to mount directly to our factory cross bars you need to find some, now extinct, mighty mounts made for the cross bars. As vt_maverick said Daver used to have some for sale. You would need the vertical mighty mounts (similar to these http://www.yakima.com/shop/factorycr...l-mightymounts ) that are made specifically for our cross bars.
Since I couldn't find some wing mounts, originally (I have since bought some off of a member here), I went the round about way to get my bike racks up top. I used Yakima's Universal Mighty Mounts ( http://www.yakima.com/shop/factorycr...l-mightymounts ) and attached a standard Yakima cross bar to them. I then mounted my bike racks to the standard cross bars. That set up works, but it does give you two sets of cross bars (the stock ones and the standard Yakima ones) and raises the racks up a bit (see image below). Works like a charm, though, and I haven't had any problem with the stability of the bikes.
As others have said; I wouldn't worry about the load on the roof rack. I have had my ski box, and two bikes on bike racks mounted to the roof at 70 mph and have never had a problem.
Edit: Actually, after some thought, and looking at other threads, you would need to figure out which bike rack you want first to determine how it mounts to decide whether you would need the vertical or horizontal Yakima Mighty Mounts.
Last edited by MSHardeman : 07/27/2010 at 09:00 AM
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