When I returned from Costa Rica last month, I did so without most of my camera gear which was stolen there.  While I was gone I suffered a second theft, this time at the hands of my dear wife.  She picked me up at the airport in my recently purchased BMW X1 rather than her own car and since then has commandeered it.  Given that I rarely travel beyond the range of my electric i3, I have no real grounds to object to this “arrangement.”  Volkswagon will buy back her Jetta Sportswagon as part of the “diesel gate” legal settlement as soon as it is approved by the courts at a price more than double the current Blue Book value. At that time, Jeanine will want to transport bikes with “her” new car.  To that end, I installed an after-market 2″ towing receiver on the X1, a project that took the better part of three hours and turned out very nicely.  Our hitch mount double bike rack mounts in less than a minute providing a very secure and easy-to-use solution.