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Big cargo box needed
My 10 year old Thule 600 (now called 600 Classic) cargo box finally gave out and I'm looking to replace it. This was the huge beast that was big enough to fit one large or two skinny people in. Thule's website says it's capacity is 21.2 cu ft and holds 10-12 pairs of skis. When we loaded up with skiers we could put 4 ski bags in there without any trouble, even with 210 cm skis. In other seasons we've carried all sorts of luggage and other gear in it. My problem is no local shops stock the large size boxes, so I can't get a look at them to figure out what to buy. Everyone says "sure, we can order it for you". So after staring at web site dimensions for the current 21 cu ft models from both Thule and Yakima and talking to shops that sell them I blindly ordered the Yakima Platinum Pro 21. Somehow the dealer mistakenly ordered the black model instead, but he insists it's exactly the same construction and dimensions, just a different color and different material. When I looked it over I was very disappointed. There is a structural crossbar at each end running across the box from one side to the other a few inches above the floor of the box. The crossbars add to the stability of the box and only minimally reduce the total inside volume, but they are only 205 cm apart. A pair of 210 cm skis will fit beneath the crossbars if you slide them around a bit to get them beneath the bars, but if you have a ski bag with a bunch of skis in it, it will definitely have trouble if it contains anything over 200 cm. Might even have trouble with 200 cm if the bag doesn't fold tightly around the end of the skis. I was able to decline the special-ordered Yakima because the dealer had ordered the wrong color, but now I'm wondering if anyone makes a decent large box for cross country skiers. I see some smaller volume Yakima boxes are longer but we're spoiled by our old box and want another just as big. Thule has their 675 - Evolution 2100 that's 21 cu ft and claims to be just about the same length and height as the old 600. It's 4 inches narrower but that's not my most critical dimension. Does anyone here have this box? If so how does it do with ski bags containing 200-210 cm skis? Are there any internal obstructions that artifically limit the usable capacity? The website says this box is 92" long. I imagine this is the outside dimension. Can anyone tell me the inside dimension? Eddie Luban, if you're reading this, can you tell me names of shops in Syracuse that carry Thule boxes? I'm going back to Syr for another wrist surgery this Friday :-( so I'll be making numerous followup trips to Syr over the next 3 months and will have plenty of opportunities to stop in to a shop up there. Any other brands besides Yakima and Thule I should be looking at? -Mitch |
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Big cargo box needed
Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
My 10 year old Thule 600 (now called 600 Classic) cargo box finally gave out and I'm looking to replace it. This was the huge beast that was big enough to fit one large or two skinny people in. Thule's website says it's capacity is 21.2 cu ft and holds 10-12 pairs of skis. When we loaded up with skiers we could put 4 ski bags in there without any trouble, even with 210 cm skis. In other seasons we've carried all sorts of luggage and other gear in it. Good idea. I've just (i.e. this morning) ordered a replacement for our current (very cheap!) Biltema box, since it was too tall to fit into the (low) garage at Tone's office. What I settled on was a Packline Avantgarde, this one has a total length of 225, with no internal obstructions, but it costs 3x the (soft) Biltema box (i.e. I'm paying NOK 5000,- for it, which is nearly $700). http://www.packline.no/CGI_BIN/spesifikasjoner/vis.pl Their 'Orginal 102' has a stated volume of 600 liters, which is 21.1888 cu ft according to my math. Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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