Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Any pictures or drawings of modern cars with "structural longitudinal beams" in the roof/chassis that would function as the base for poles that could extend and retract from the roof and safely support a bicycle? Or is that feature only found in the props of a movie or screenplay to be released at some date after you become head of design at an automobile manufacturer?
Look at the roof frame above the doors. Poles could be situated within or alongside those 'beams' in the chassis/frame and extended out so that the ends go just past the trunk. For additional support, other beams could extend upward (or flip upward) from the rear of the vehicle that connect with the ones extending from the roof. Then, you pick up your bike and hang the frame on the parts of the poles extending past the support poles coming up from the trunk.