Review: Only used it once before it was destroyed lol
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2012
For my setup I'm using a Thule bar up front and rear and everything is very stable that way.  I tried it using my car's factory bars but they were too flexy for me to feel confident with them.  Mounting the rack to factory bars or Thule/Yakima bars is dirt simple.  If you have a hatch back and can't quite get it all the way open when the rack is mounted you can remove the plastic plug on the end of the rack and gain about an inch and half more room.Now onto how it got destroyed and a good example of how strong the front wheel holder is.  Just after leaving my house on the second trip using this rack I hit a cable line that had come loose from the pole. The cable line ripped the bike off my roof.  Before the rack finally let go of the front wheel it ripped the Thule towers that clamp over the doors of you car off denting my car and bending the Thule bar and bent the front loader rack 90 degrees.  It snapped the rear tire strap but not before bending the hell out of my rear rim which luckily was the only damage to my bike.  When I was looking for a rack I was a little leery of how well this would hold the bike onto the car but not anymore.  I'm pretty confident that under normal circumstances the bike will not come out unless you screw up, the front tire goes flat, or you hit something.  As soon as I get the money from the cable company's insurance I'll buy another one.  I'm just going to keep an eye out for that cable line from now on.I'd give it 5 stars if there was a quick release for the front tire clamp.  It would be nice if you didn't have to twist and twist the front wheel holder to get it loose enough to get the tire out.  The rear does have a quick release.9/7/12 updateI did buy another one and no more cable lines have ripped it off so far.  I let my friend borrow it to go on vacation and he did around 500 miles with it mounted to his van's factory bars holding a bike.