Bike racks

[954paulo]

Hey any of you fellas go mountain biking? What's your truck setup for transporting the bikes?


I have a hitch mount 4 bike rack, but can't access the rear door when it's on. This gets very annoying


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[Panzer07]

I use The spare tire but only works for 2 bikes XP lock the bike frame to the rim using the bikes lock...I'm cheap practical like that


"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain-

 

[digglesworth]

Ok. Here's what I use. It's basically a Thule T2 hitch mounted. I had to make a longer piece to go into the hitch to allow the rack to fold up against the spare tire when im not using it. It's still in the way of the door so folding it down to open the door is a nuisance. The longer piece I put in makes the rack stick out pretty far from the back of the truck but it works out because there's enough room to use the spare tire mounted carrier to put my daughters bike on. So I can carry my daughter's, my girlfriend's and my bikes all back there. Access to the back is outta the question with the bikes loaded but they're so easy to put in the rack, I can pull them off in a second. The pic of the single tray is what I use mostly. It's just for my bike for going to races and weekly rides. It's just a tray from the Thule mounted on a piece of 2" square tubing into the hitch.

One thing that sucks is with 35s, it hit the rack when I open the rear door. So i flipped the spare tire carrier over on the door and it raised the tire up 1.25"... Didnt happen with 33s but what can you expect with 35s. Since you have the body lift, you may have enough clearance.

 

[persius1]

This is what I currently use on my 3 with a 12" extension to clear the spare

http://www.yakima.com/shop/bike/hitch/fullswing

But this is the one I want to get:

http://www.northshoreracks.com/NSR 4-bike.htm




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[954paulo]

This is mine. But I think I'm going to hack it up and figure out how to mount it to where the spare is mounted


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[evldave]

Mine was an old hitch mount hacked up and attached to the tire...simple, worked, and was free...




Here's version 2 I built after moving the tire to the roof...