surfboard on a 90, any idea?

hey everyone,
I use my 90 to get on beaches, and really need a better way of carrying my surfboards!at th mo i carry it INSIDE!from nose to tail it JUST fits, but if I ever had to suddenly brake it would for sure smash through the windscreen!I really should hav got a 110 and have a decent rood rack to solve the problem like is shown here, GUIA DE SURF

However I dont, so anyone else out here recommend a company/product that could carry a surfboard (ur talkin 6foot 6 at min, 7 foot 2 max in length. I'm guessin carryin it on roof it will droop over the front) but maybe theres a product that solves this problem??any pics would be grand.

I ride longboards and can get them in my 110 albeit my 10 footer's a very tight fit. So tight in fact that I did indeed crack my windscreen squeezing it in a few months ago. I spose a roof rack is the only real answer but it's a right pain putting boards up there specially if it's windy. (or take up sponging )

hughesy said:

I ride longboards and can get them in my 110 albeit my 10 footer's a very tight fit. So tight in fact that I did indeed crack my windscreen squeezing it in a few months ago. I spose a roof rack is the only real answer but it's a right pain putting boards up there specially if it's windy. (or take up sponging )

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I've come across this, Defender 110 Beach Runner, abour 2/3rds down't page it looks like 2 boards are being strapped to a short section of a 110's roof (about the length of a 90 roof).I cant really tell how their bein strapped, at present I have no rack so I'm startin from scratch.

plus they look pretty short to me, hmmm

what about a pair of roofbars and bunjee action?

Looks like some sort of rack mounted between his rear roll cage and the top of his windscreen. I assume you've got a hard roof on rather than a ragtop, just get yourself some roof bars and a couple of ratchet straps. I've got thule ones but there are cheaper ones about if you have a look around. I just climb up onto the roof to strap them on it's easier than fannying about balanced on a wheel trying to do it one handed.

yeah i think that could be th answer. jus a bit fearful of em flyin off.but as long as I put em the right way round they shouldnt fly off i guess.could always get the miss's to hold onto em through th sunroof!also a bit concerned bout em bendin up when drivin along at motorway speed. roof bars and straps looks like how they do it in the

Defender 110 Beach Runner pictures. any photos of landys with boards on top especially a 90 out there?

hughesy said:

Looks like some sort of rack mounted between his rear roll cage and the top of his windscreen. I assume you've got a hard roof on rather than a ragtop, just get yourself some roof bars and a couple of ratchet straps. I've got thule ones but there are cheaper ones about if you have a look around. I just climb up onto the roof to strap them on it's easier than fannying about balanced on a wheel trying to do it one handed.

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yeah hardtop. you dont have any trouble with securin em on there?what about the wind gettin under em, especially the part stickin out from the roof?

If you strap em on nice and tight there's no chance of em coming of. I've done hundreds, in fact thousands of miles with no probs. Last summer did a round trip to cornwall and back with three longboards on the roof of my missus's zafira, did 90 on the motorway for hours on end, I just check the straps are tight every time I stop you usually have to tighten the a few times. The horror stories you hear from time to time about boards coming off roofracks are down to them never being tied on properly in the first place.

o jus remembered you dont have that prblem with a 110!apart from th bars and straps what surfboard carrier do you use?jus wanderin what the best approach to attachin the surfboards to the straps to the bars?

sorry if that sounds a bit confusin

cant see wot the prob is - gert yoself a set of these.

It's not rocket science. Boards in bags, not so easy to secure unbagged ones, too slippy. Stack em one on top of the other, if you lay them side by side they'll move and the straps'll go slack. You can either use one long strap or if it's a long trip I'll use two. With one strap I just hook it onto the bar, loop it over the boards and under the bat the other side of the boards, then take it diagonally over the boards to the other bar, over the boards again, hook it onto the bar and tighten it all up, job's a good un. Using two straps I just use one on each bar.

Boards should be fins up and the nose to the front btw.

cheers. yup defo not rocket science!

It's a bit trial and error to find the easiest way but I can get two boards up there and strapped on in no time, not much longer than it takes my mate to stick his into his van really. I would have thought that on a 90 you could have them far forward enough so you could keep an eye on the through the windscreen if you crane your neck a bit. I always put them right over to the driver's side so I can just see the back end of them out of my mirror.

i have a halfords roof rack bars and a thule adapter for my snow boards , i do know that surf boards will fit , coz its ajustable

cost £70 for the bars, £80 for the addapter.

hope this elps.
Mick

might want tae think about some of that foam type pipe laggin' tae protect yer boards on a roof rack

Yer don't need any adapters or laggin or anythin just bang em on there and strap em down

hughesy said:

It's not rocket science. Boards in bags, not so easy to secure unbagged ones, too slippy. Stack em one on top of the other, if you lay them side by side they'll move and the straps'll go slack. You can either use one long strap or if it's a long trip I'll use two. With one strap I just hook it onto the bar, loop it over the boards and under the bat the other side of the boards, then take it diagonally over the boards to the other bar, over the boards again, hook it onto the bar and tighten it all up, job's a good un. Using two straps I just use one on each bar.

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Thule make a roofrack that is fast release and is suitable for boards in bags I have one it is great takes five minutes to take off and reload

hughesy said:

Yer don't need any adapters or laggin or anythin just bang em on there and strap em down

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Correct the straps are short and fit in specially designed board holders safest system I have had and I use longboards

Craigf said:

Correct the straps are short and fit in specially designed board holders safest system I have had and I use longboards

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d'ya reckon ya could give us a model number or name?