: As long as you are designing bike racks for motorized bikes, and
: take-apart bikes, and take-apart kayaks: What the world needs is
: a bike rack for a kayak. It would be nice at least in the
: flatlands where river paddling is mostly downstream. Having a
: cycle on board the kayak turns the day into biathlon of
: kayaking downstream and cycling back to the car.
Can it be done ... yes. Would I want to .. No !
I've thought about this off and on, and concluded the problem isn't carrying a lightweight folding bike on a kayak... It's carrying a heavy,
bulky, folding kayak and all paddling gear on a folding bike. Even my Sonnet inflatable / folder at 19lbs is pretty bulky when in the bag,
and add another 20 lbs of paddling gear, and you see the problem.
The best solution might be a lightweight folding trailer to carry the folded kayak behind the bike. I'm assuming that the folding bike will
rest on the flat aft deck of the kayak, with the folded trailer broken down and carried under the deck. Rolling the boat is not an option,
nor should it be.
There are several quite small, and quick assembly, commercial folding bikes that would better serve this purpose than my take-apart full size bikes.
But again, a folding trailer would be the best way to deal with the load.
Another issue to be considered is the time and effort involved in folding / unfolding the kayak, folding / unfolding the bike and trailer,
and loading everything on and off the kayak and trailer. This can quickly turn what should be fun into lots of work... YUK !
Here's about 40lbs of Sonnet folding kayak and all paddling gear on the pillion of my Triumph. As you can see, a bicycle rack would be
overwhelmed by such bulk. Tom
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