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stuarthop ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 22 Dec 04 Location: Nottingham Online Status: Offline Posts: 1040 |
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i've seen oppies stacked on top of each other on the roofs of cars before
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Blobby ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 May 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 779 |
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OK then here is an almost sensible suggestion - have you thought about a double deck roof rack? Roof box on top, Topper on the bottom... I would have thought any local welding establishment should be able to knock something like that up pretty easily... |
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andy2000 ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 16 Jan 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Sorry haven't posted thanks to everyone before, but been too busy trying some of the suggestions. Trouble was I couldn't get into the car after the Topper was taped to the side, except through a rear window or the hatch - over-zealous application of gaffer tape. So not very family-friendly. Having watched my roof box skim effortlessly down a frosty drive, I could see the immediate connection and so fitting a rig to it is a definite alternative so an idle summer moment. However I'm not sure there will be sufficent bouyancy. Whilst creatively interesting & highly entertaining to both participants and spectators, converting the Topper into some form of art piece, 3D jigsaw, helium-filled balloon or car-drawn 'wake-board' look high risk strategies when we would quite like a serviceable Topper at the end of the journey. Boring I know. So what are we actually going to do? Don't know yet, options... 1. Nothing - i.e. follow the advice to dump/sell it somewhere local to save dumping it in NW Scotland in a few years time. 2. Persuade some friends to assist when they head north this summer. 3. Hire a car/van on a 'one-way' drop. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Really brightened up my InBox. Andy |
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big man ![]() Posting king ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 161 |
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i notice andy2000 is being very quiet
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keep it flat you t***
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maxim ![]() Posting king ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Nov 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 127 |
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Yeah - until us boys from Radley happened to fnd you!!! ![]() a car, 4 boys pushed down under it - and the pico on the top about to break the rear axel... Got there in the end though (have you any pictures of that??) Max |
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Phil eltringham ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: England/Hitchin Online Status: Offline Posts: 1105 |
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I reckon you could fly at least a 29er or even an 800 kite of a topper mast head, that would help |
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bigwavedave ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 944 |
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Even down wind with the van doors open?
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Rob.e ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Oct 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 545 |
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Well that depends on wind strength and direction, surely? And if it was one of them 'orrible old sherpa's, I'd back the Topper in a breeze...
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bigwavedave ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 944 |
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Now thats just being silly. A topper will hasn't got a big enough sail to tow a van on the uphill sections.
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Blobby ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 May 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 779 |
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This is turning into the most envronmentally friendly topic ever...all three original ideas just keep getting recycled. No one has said tie it to the trolley, add a jockey wheel, put the sail up and sail it there along the M6 though and use that to tow the van instead. |
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