[Laneco]

Personally, I prefer the wheel-off. It unnerves me to watch the wheel-on version go down the road wobbling a bit. They stay on fine, but they do wobble - alot of people will bungee the handlebars together which seems to stabilize.

I'm not a real fan of any clamp system to the downtube of my bike, that's my biggest hang up with the wheels-on system. I have to admit the advantage is to have the wheels (dirty after an MTB race) on the outside of the car.

For the fork mounts, I've used the wheel carrier on top. I wound up gettin rid of the roof mounted wheel carriers because when there is no bike on, they would make a weird tuning fork noise going down the road.

I've had all Yakima racks, so that may be a feature they've improved as my newest Yak-rack is 7 years old.

angela