Subject: RE: Roof rack choices? I have a Yakima as well and have been very happy with it. My bike has traveled thousands of miles on my roof and I haven't had any problems! As someone mentioned, they do sell interchangeable locks. If you buy enough you can lock up everything...bike, bug splatter thing on front (for the life of me I can't remember what it's called right now ), etc. One thing about the Yakima's is that the cross rods are generally round vs. Thule's rectangular. I have the fork mount kind of holders but also bought front wheel holder things too. I like to move the wheel holder out of the windstream when I am not riding around with the bike on the roof and you can just push it down with the Yakima bars but the Thule ones you'd have to completely remove it to move it...if that makes any sense.
Also, check into Rocky Mounts. I don't remember the website, but that's where I got the actual bike holders from. Company based in Colorado. They are cheaper than the Yakima ones and are exactly the same. Have to purchase their locks, but I don't find that to be a problem at all.
As for locking...locking the bike up discourages the honest people. Mine has never been stolen, but I am very convinced that you could easily turn the non-locking side of my fork mount and get the bike off the roof. One of these days when I stop being a lazy butt I will actually see if my theory is correct. If you were really worried about it though you could probably throw a chain lock on for extra security.
If some of that doesn't make any sense, PM me and I can try to explain it better....
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