Re: How much room in the back...
It would be a simple thing to loosen the stem and rotate the bars to be inline with the bike. Or, better yet, just slide the stem off the steerer tube and bungee the bar to the top tube. It would take an extra 5 minutes to setup the bike before a ride but I would say having your steeds safely packed away from peering eyes is a good thing.
I'm new here, looking into the SMB thing, and the above solution is what I have come up with, if we decide to go with an EB and leave 20" of cargo room at the back. We ride, a lot, and packing bikes away inside is key. Dragging bikes up dirt roads on any sort of rack is just bad for them. One time my wife's front wheel on her brand new Ibis popped out of the wheel tray on a Thule rack while driving up a nasty dirt road and drug along behind my truck for about 10 yards before we realized it had happened. Not good. Bikes go inside.
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