Carrying kayaks with 5er's
We have been enjoying bumper hitch TT's for a few years now. I'm retired and she's close and we're thinking about extended travel trips; quasi full timing. We currently have a 1500 series pickup long ...
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ByTheRvr wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion but my better half wouldn't go with indoor storage. If we're making miles and pull into a Walmart for the night I don't like the idea of having to put the kayaks outside at night or climbing over them if we have to stay put somewhere on a rainy day. Putting them in the bedroom might work if I was just traveling from the house to the lake but that's not what we do. We are planning to spend extended periods on the road so we need to have a place for everything. I'm a bit concerned about the reduced visibility of hanging them over the windshield on the roof of the pickup but that seems to be the only practical solution.
The forward mounted rack doesn't block much of your vision. Sometimes at a stop light, I'll have to tilt my head a little to see the whole light but you get used to it. If you're concerned about kayak security while on extended trips you could use one of these: http://www.lassosecuritycables.com/
