At 4:30 last Saturday morning our long-term Chevy Silverado was loaded with three mountain bikes, four people and enough riding gear and supplies to collectively cover 165 miles and more than 33,000 vertical feet -- by bike. It played support vehicle to our local two-wheeled torture festival by comfortably moving my wife between aid stations and the finish line and then hauling home three wrecked riders.
My wife, a former full-size truck owner herself, reports that the Silverado, although longer than her 1997 Dodge Ram, is no more difficult to position in parking situations and has manageable steering response. Apparently she got some wheelspin maneuvering out of a gravel parking spot, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't the sort that requires another visit to Burkes Auto Body (http://66.160.188.111/roadtests/641)...
Josh Jacquot, senior road test editor @ 10,808 miles
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