I saw a photo of an xBox with 2 bicycles in the back. They must have been small bikes, but this inspired me to find a way to box my bike. It is a full size 26 inch hybrid, man-eating mountain bike. To install in the xBox, you need to remove the front wheel. The seat will fit, but you need to lower it and it may rub on the hearliner, so I removed it.
First, the folding bike. This was easy because it folds!

It fits into the cargo area with all seats up, as seen below:

The full size bike does fit with the 60 part of the rear seat folded down. Three people will fit with the bike in it as pictured below:

The trick is to secure the front fork ends to the back of the center head rest bars. I used a ratchet extention about 6 inches long, but you can fabricate a rod of some sort to use as a cross member that goes through the forks.

I used a rubber bungie from one over-door handle, wrapped around the bike frame and streched to the other over-door handle.

Secure the cross member to the forks. You can use a paper clip or a strong twist tie or a plastic tie, just remember to bring along a clipper or a box cutter to cut the tie upon arrivial. Then secure the fork/cross-member assembly to the back of the head rest support bars. Again, use a paper clip, or a strong twist tie or a plastic tie.
It was a great relief to cruse up to Bike New York this year and be able to recline the driver's seat and sleep until the rain ended.

Close the hatch and you will may have one inch to spare as seen below:

Once again, my patented forkin' head rest support trick is pictured below:


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get a cargo liner to keep the carpet/upholstry fresh from dirt. best interior investment i've made next to floor mats

cool tutorial btw!

 

looks good. but i think this is more impressive...
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60652

 

I was thinking about trying to setup an easy internal carrying
lockdown type thing for my Specialized. Your photos give me
some ideas!

 

the exterras have a internal bike rack, the xb needs one, im short and cant reach the top

 

Cargo liners whohoo.

 

I like the fork-in-headrest idea.
So far I haven't been forced to put my bike in upright, I can always lay it on it's side. My seatpost sits pretty high, I wonder if it'd fit upright in my xB or not.

 

Bed liner, or cargo liner, yes, I am in the market for one. Good idea. Although my bike hardly ever hits dirt, I want that protection just in case. I don't want an out-of-car bike rack because I don't want the bike exposed to rain and/or slop from other cars. I don't even want my skis exposed to rain/snow/slop. It must be difficult to lift a bike up to a roof rack.

I saw MOTOMAM's trail bike in his box. I would love to fit my moped in my box, but disassembily is not an option fot me and my TOMOS Moped. I may need to remove the shroud, that is possible but further investagation is needed. The gas tank will leak out of the vent if it is not kept upright.
Motoman is a turkey. He may be responsible for a ticket blitz on Rt. 66. Or at least partially responsible.

DERKxB, Seats will need to be lowered all the way, but it may fit below the head liner.
Try it and post photos of results.

 

Where to get liner?

 

true...still good work

 

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No disassembly required, very good! I have a moving blanket like that, I forgot about how usefull it can be. Until I find that bedliner, I will use mine like that.

 

This is my solution to fitting a bike in an xB:




I had to test that I could easily load a bike before I signed the paperwork. The rear hatch opening is actually equivalent to my full-size Blazer, considering that the Blazer stores the full-size spare tire upright in the cabin. The xB cabin is a foot shorter than the Blazer, but the bike still fits with the passenger seat moved forward. My gear gets stored in the rear seat footwells.

 

^^^ Hey nice ride there, those Spins are hot.
Here's mine-


The only way i've been able to fit mine is on it's side too (with the seatpost removed), but i'm going to try the headrest technique next time. Great idea.

 

For those of you that are interested, check out my custom rack.

I just bolted two skewer mounts to a piece of 3/4" MDF covered by automotive carpet. The road bike has a 54cm frame and the mountain bike has a 13" frame. The rear tires only stick out past the front seats a couple of inches.

 

An armrest would get in the way of that set-up, right? Do you have an armrest, I can't quite tell from that photo. Good solution. But what is MDF? Some kind of plywood?
And 54cm frame is that full size, small or medium? I also don't know what a 13' frame means, large, mediun or small?

 

MDF= medium density fiberboard, aka: particle board

heavy but stiff stuff

good information thread, hawk!

 

do many strip out the rear seat and cubby... and you can take off the spare if you dare (i do, but i am in the city, on steel wheels)

I love the cavern behind me. Vanstyle on the way.

more room for bikes or bales or just... air is nice, too.

 

I'm 5'11", so the 54cm road bike would probably be considered medium size. The 13" mountain bike is a small frame, although I could fit a larger frame if I needed to. I don't have an armrest, but here is a picture of the rear wheels.

 

Nice

 

That's exactly the solution I was lookin' for!

~Eric~