It's often easier to transport a bike in the back seat of a car with the front wheel off, rather than setting up the bike rack. I've noticed that, due to the way the car seats are built, there's often unequal stress on the fork. Do I need to be concerned with this, over the course of a few hours on the road, or is this a nonissue?
The bike I most often transport like this has a steel fork, although I have a bike with an aluminum fork I put in the back seat every so often.