Today, I picked up the Trike Rack by Sea Sucker:
https://www.seasucker.com/ Since the totaling of the car in August, (and with it, the trailer hitch), I haven't been able to get the trike around. How frustrating. During my wanderings around the net, I found out about these suction cup based bike mounts. Like probably everyone who reads this, I was really skeptical about their ability to hold well enough, so I did some sniffing around. I discovered that PC&F sells them, and they have seen how well they work. Long story short, I went for it.
As advertised, those things really, really hold. I attempted to attach them to the Jetta as they recommended, trike facing forward, but with the car's sunroof, it was not happening. I turned the trike around, as I had always envisioned anyway, and low-slung trike fit the roof just fine. Next problem was how the front mounts' hooks fit these small, 16" wheels. To hook the wheels centers them over only one of the suction cups, so I decided I would not hook the wheels, and let them be cradled from side to side. The left hooks is around the back of the wheel, and the right around the front and for now, zip ties to hold the wheels to the mounts until I think of something more elegant and practicable later.
Another downer is that the Trike Rack is recommended for only 40 lbs. They conveniently don't put that on the website, as I could find. The 700, as outfitted, is 43.6 lbs.
Looks like the RBM
Trike Recumbent Ride tomorrow is a go for me, God willing.