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Three Weeks To Go! Don't Miss it! Monday April 8, time will be between noon and 2PM depending on your location. The next chance to view a total eclipse in the continental US is 2044, in Montana. But in 2045 there's a big one that goes California to Florida, and that one has an extra-long...

It somehow never occurred to me that the air suspension's "kneeling" function will make stowing gear on top of a rack much easier. A little too much height can make a big difference in the procedure used to load and tie down. Now it suddenly occurs, that I would like the rack to be much taller...

HEY! I GOT ONE! I think it was my fourth try. For the record, it looks like "Cybertruck 1974" was the first to see it, but he didn't post the link.

No one ever posted the link? https://www.cyberrak.com/

I don't know about that rack. I'm going to haul two 40 foot ladders, (plus a 16 foot stage) which slide down to slightly over 20 feet. I want a rack length minimum of half of 20 feet. I want a rack NO LESS THAN TEN FEET in length. Not sure exactly, but that rack seems slightly less than nine...

I think the cost of wrapping them will not be extremely high. It's a large job but those guys do a lot of commercial vans and even box trucks, so they know how to do large. The complete lack of curves makes it a relatively easy job. Maybe triangles add complexity or a lot of wasted material? I...

The definition of "truck" is CARRYING CARGO! Most people today with pickups are in passenger vehicles with a truck-like feature. Seriously, just look at the leaf springs on them and that tells the story. There's a long ago thread where i said. "if you can't put a 40 foot ladder on it, I'm...

Clicked on the link for the "invincible" roof rack, and they have changed the name to "invisible".

Fingerprints? What are you even talking about?!? I'm never gonna clean it, not even once. I'll take a leaf blower to the interior once a year, that's it. The truck serves me, not the other way around. I'm gonna be welding stuff directly to the body panels. Throwing the back seats out on the...

What grade does the hill have to be before regeneration reaches it's maximum? I'd bet that on a 1% downhill slope you are still using some accelerator pedal just to keep up with rolling and wind resistance. Does it have to be 2% downhill before regeneration kicks in at all? 4%? I'd imagine at...

A somewhat specific question, but has anybody ever looked at this? City regen milage in hilly vs flat terrain? Always been fascinated that, because of regeneration, electric vehicles get better "fuel" economy in city driving than highway cruising, which is the opposite of an ICE vehicle. As I...

To me the two biggest questions always were.... 1. How thick is the stainless? And that turned out to be a third less than expected. 2. What battery chemistry is it? I really don't have an answer to that. I know the range turned out to be about a third less than expected, but why? On that...

The Annular Eclipse is in sixteen days. Saturday late morning out west, and Saturday early afternoon in the east. Austin is just a few miles north of the best line to be on. Seems like a good time to roll out some CT's. What do you think? Will they surprise us during the Eclipse? Will be...

I wholly agree with Skilledroy. There must be a MINIMUM of ten feet between the front and rear rails. Twelve would be much better, but for some people, that still won't be enough. Don't need a CyberShovel. Years ago I ebayed a few genuine Russian Titanium Shovels. I tell people.. "800 years...

I just don't see how a CT is going to replace this functionality I have today. These homemade racks are now on their fourth F150. They went from an '89. to a '99, to an '08 and now on a '17. All the one inch square tube steel parts are from a 1910's's bridge demolition and were in the Ohio...

Sorry, i didn't see you had mentioned launch night, making my last post somewhat redundant. Also, i've got another Optic Delusion. The way the lowered tailgate has triangular corners can make it seem like it is lowered slightly below level. Or, is the tailgate a little narrower narrower at the...

That original Tesla roof rack image was shown on the screen behind Elon, at the CT unveiling event. It's a screen shot. It took a couple weeks for people to figure out there was a roof rack there at all. Looks like it may be a sail-pillar-toolbox image. If you see a similar image that seems...

To safely carry a long load, you need the distance between the rack's front and rear bars to be a minimum of half the length of the object being carried. The longest load I plan to carry is a forty foot ladder. A forty foot ladder in it's down position is approx 20'6". Meaning I need the rack to...

I'm not putting a dozen 2 by 12's on top of this rack mounting point.

Could you show a pic of these slits actually being used as attachment points? I'd like to see how a CT roof rack might be designed.