How Do You Carry Your Bicycles? Pics Please

[slowtwitch]

Clintnz has the right idea. Anything in a trailer receiver seriously cramps off roadablility. We recently picked up a Kuat rack used.. works great, but damn spendy. Can carry four bikes with wheels on if you expand it (more$$$). I am going to build a bumper/swing away gas can carrier that will have a 2" receiver to plug the rack into. We were recently in Utah, and our friends with a Kuat 2 bike rack in trailer receiver could hardly go anywhere other than dead flat roads.... big money hanging off the back in the rack alone much less the bikes to taco in a dip in the road.

 

[Mo4130]

An isi rack. Gotta pay to play.

 

[4xdog]

As noted above, the racks from 1up USA look interesting. I've seen a few in person, and surprisingly they seem to show more weathering than one might expect from anodized aluminum. Maybe the ones I've seen have led hard lives...

Image from the 1up USA website:

I'm a seriously tall guy (6'6"), so my bikes are up HIGH when roof mounted. I'm delighted with this setup on my Tacoma. (Yeah, it's relevant only to truck folk, but this thread is useful enough that it's worth sharing here).

 

[4xdog]

Kinda old now (as Rabobank stopped being a UCI pro tour team years ago), but here's the rack system on one of the team cars as spotted outside my hotel in NL one morning. Interesting custom work. I lost count, but I think this might have held seven bikes on top of that Skoda.

 

[southpier]

North Shore Rack 4 bike rack. Fits into the receiver hitch, rock solid.

http://forum.expeditionportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=389759&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1488776171

many solutions in this thread remind me of the "All You Can Eat Buffet"

just because you can, is it something you should?

 

[Choff]

LIKE THIS !!!!
ON A NEW HITCH MOUNTED "SARIS" BIKE CARRIER

AND YES THE RED ONE IS A VINTAGE BIKE I BOUGHT NEW IN 1986 YES I AM THAT OLD!!!!

 

[Judy12]

That's cool!

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

High clearance, solid off road, room for two, and I can open my tailgate when bike is off.

 

[Lucky j]

I am going to build a bumper/swing away gas can carrier that will have a 2" receiver to plug the rack into.

Just make sure when you built this that the hinge/pivot point is big as... tought. Big off road tire, sometime back rack and well a bike rack that bring the weight way back specially if you go with 4 bikes, put a lot of stress on the rack construction and the pivot and clamping system. And if the system brakes, you bike could be draging down the road a long time before getting to a stop.

Washboard and bad road put a lot of stress in an overloaded tire rack.

 

[Mountaingoat1]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b4/4d/44/b44d442ee0a4f697ebb245db63e4c884.jpg

This might be something to build.

 

[Buddha.]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b4/4d/44/b44d442ee0a4f697ebb245db63e4c884.jpg

This might be something to build.

That's cool. It'd be even better with some kind of aerodynamic cover to keep road crud off

 

[rayra]

The OP might want to consider having a custom roof rack made, bikes upright, kayaks racked between or outside them. And a front mounted whip antenna as a height / clearance reminder.

 

[Josh41]

Finally decided on a Yakima Swing Daddy, Swings away easily to open camper door, even found a way to use Quick Fists to mount a shovel. Says it can hold four bikes, but three is much easier and all we needed anyway.

 

[CDN38]

Wow, that is a long and low overhang!! I would have modified that 2" bar a long time a go to make the bikes higher.

But nice LR!!

Need the length to get out past the spare, but also for the length of the dual crown forks. It looks deceiving, but that receiver bar is over 24" off the ground.