Scout Concepts At LA Auto Show, November 21-30, 2025

[J Alynn]

You know what they say about opinions? Or what they compare them too? "Everyone's got one"

Building is full of opinions.....

CP1

I don’t know what that saying is? Is it in line with @cyure ‘s post about assuming that she never clarified for me? You guys and your fancy sayings that you don’t explain-it’s REALLY frustrating!!!

 

[J Alynn]

Now that I have been thinking about CATIA someone is going to ask me to open a model at work in CATIA and that will make me want to set my computer alight

3-D models make the world go round. Seems nobody can visualize anymore but a quick model certainly helps convey ideas

 

[Logan]

Love this kind of outside the carrier kind of thinking. Wondering how to design an insert to allow a new way to mount a bike or two. Something in a vertical format where rear wheel and frame drop in to stabilize the maybe a safety rail higher up so the can’t tip or bounce out?

I was thinking about this too, but so far I’ve not been able to figure out a way to do this quite yet. At least not in a way that would fit in the carrier as well as the backpack quite yet. There might be more options if the outer shell of the tire carrier was removable.

There are three general kinds of vertical bike racks (I’ll edit with photos in a second).

The tray/basket ones (velocirax) where there is a metal semicircle that catches and holds the front wheel in place.

The ones that hold the handlebar (lolo), and the bike hangs backwards (tires facing out).

And the ones that attach to the bikes head tube/fork crown (Northshore).

In theory you could also mount it horizontal without the tire trays used in other designs, but you’d likely need a design that clamps the frame down by the bottom bracket (where the cranks go through the frame), and maybe a crank arm clamp. And it would be tricky to keep stable. Plus bike nerds don’t love frame clamping designs, because it’s easy to ruin a paint job on a $10k carbon fiber bike .

 

[bb00799]

3-D models make the world go round. Seems nobody can visualize anymore but a quick model certainly helps convey ideas

I was more referring to the fact that my company uses a variety of different modelling software and that my specific sites chosen software is far superior to CATIA (in my humble opinion).