bikes in vans

right - I've bought a couple of ratchet tie downs - now I need to hire
a van.

How big is a "Vauxhall Vivaro"? Would I easily fit a couple of bikes in
the back (a ZX7R and an RGV250 for what it's worth)?

 

Select either:
a) www.fuckinggoogleit.com

or b)

"Even the short-wheelbase panel van (length x width x height:
4.78 x 1.90 x 1.97 metres) has a capacity of around five cubic
metres; load area length is 2.41m, and height 1.38m."

 

yes, yes, yes, but I wondered if anyone had experience of trying to fit
bikes into something with that sort of headroom - I've only used taller
vans in the past.

 

Vauxhall's website's working. You'd do well to visit it.

Piece of piss.

 

FFS! I got my bike in the back of an Escort van. Jesus, you people want
everything doing for you.

Why not just go and look at a Vivaro or pay someone else to do it?

 

See my reply to Chris - sure I can get the specs for any van I consider
hiring, but I wanted "real world stories" about how easy it is to get
bikes into a van this size.

I *think* so too, but would like to be more sure before hiring one.

 

darsy emerged from their own little world to say

It's a rebadged Renault Traffic if that helps jog anyone's memory. My mate
has a SWB Traffic but it has the hi-roof option so getting bikes in is a
piece of piss. He rides his enduro bike up a narrow plank.

 

- I've only used taller vans in the past.

Ah, I see. Well in that case, no, so "wibbleflipdibbledo".

However, I noticed that they do SWB and LWB, with or without
a high roof. Try getting a LWB with high-roof and I'm sure
you'll be fine.

 

"you people" - what, people who like to make sure something would be
appropriate/easy to use before paying to hire it? It's called
"research".

because it's easier/cheaper to ask on here, you mong.

 

thank you. I've sourced a plank now and everything.

See, Whingo, this is the sort of info I was after.

 

Yeah it's fine. Bloke round the corner stuffed mine and his into a tiny van
with no problems. Can't remember what it was though. But even I had to
crouch.

 

Ok OK. Look, if I wanted to move a couple of bikes, I'd be fairly sure
I'd get em in the back of a tranny sized van. If that's all you want to
do they will fit. I got my bike, upright and on the stand in an Ecort
van. I really don't think you need to worry too much if your van's going
to be taller.

I mean what's wrong with going to have a look? A Vivaro is a newish van
so they'll lots of nice shiny ones for you to look at. Last time I went
to a Vauxhall dealer to buy a van, they were begging me to take it out
for a test drive, too.

 

Well I did say it was a piece of piss, what more do you want?

 

Hence my post about going to view one. You can't get much more real
world that seeing it for yourself.

 

I'm not buying a van, you spaz, I'm going to be hiring it - they won't
let me test drive a hire van.

 

You don't get an idea of others' previous experiences though, do you?

 

Maybe the hire place won't, you dildo, but a Vauxhall dealer will.

 

He's only *hiring* it. Christ, it doesn't take a genius to work out that
if it's crap, you don't hire another one. From what I see of the OP, he
only wants to know if two bikes will fit in it, not if the Jacuzzi leaks
after 300 miles or if the waterbed is comfortable ffs.

 

Well I could imagine that someone might have found that the floor anchors
are inappapriate for tying down bikes or something. Seems a perfectly
acceptable question to ask imo. Going to look at a van and just imagining
getting the bike in there isn't necessarily the best method for choosing
one.

 

So why not got to kwak.com and suzy.com and download some piccies? You
can then see if they'll fit in the van with Photoshop.