:beer::beer: How you doin'!
I been so busy lately...and last weekend we went to Moab. We're going up Thursday to the Stone and Saturday to WP...call me if you want to come with either day.
I'm looking at the Technitop myself for the same reasons. The M is pretty expensive, but really nice.
Check out the "Locking Blockhead" mounts from...uh...I don't remember the manufacturer, but most places are willing to key them identical, so one key will open every lock, and you get two keys with each block. I have an extra sitting around, and three mounted on my own in-bed rack (not installed at the moment), if you want to check them out in person one of these days.
Your build is definately worth a chat with the crew at Offroad Solutions...they're great to work with and build some phenomenal products--303 278 6267. I asked them about some similar stuff the other day, they said sketch it out, bring it in and talk it over.
There's another option you could look at, I don't know if it would be as convenient tho. You could put the rooftop tent right over the bed like the ExPo Frontier build, with a pivot at the front so you can raise it on a pair of gas assist pistons like a tonneau cover. Knowing all the stuff my dad throws in his bed, I don't know if it would work, but it would be easier to get at the bikes. A copy of AutoCAD, Solidworks or BendTech might help you lay things out, and it sounds goofy but cardboard tubes of the sort wrapping paper comes in, or PVC pipe, is a cheap & easy way to lay it out on the truck.
I had no idea there was anything interesting in Westminster...you'll have to tell me over a beer sometime, I'm sure my dad would think it's cool as well. He's been working Alaskan archeology for the last 30-some years, my parents used to bring my sister and I on digs when we were kids.
