Longitudinal Bike Rack?

[dh]

You have to be careful when using a hitch extender like that, it uses leverage to the disadvantage of the TV. Really the original idea would work, I'd just use a 2x4 spar mounted verticattly where it mounts. I'd also put a patch or diamond plate or aluminum around it to protect from scuffs when the forks miss the mount.

[RandomAbstract]

I see these remove-a-wheel bike racks all the time on sport wangons or in pickup beds. Can anyone point me to photos of something like this on a teardrop?

Something like this?



It's on a thread over in http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/31599-Post-favorite-pics-of-your-rig-and-trailer

I just noticed that you want to put it on the front of the trailer. Just food for thought.

[chartle]

1. Mounting a bike like pictured in the OP is no big deal. If that put undue stress on the bike it would be so porely built I wouldn't want to ride it. I put a lot more stress on a Mt bike when I ride it than that would.

2. Oh ya, Bikes (good ones anyway) come is different frame sizes, coupled with geometry changes which affect how they ride, you could easily see a difference of 6" in wheelbase between two randomly selected bikes.

1. Yea the more I think about it the stresses are no different than going over a bump. Its like when people see my new bike rack, its one where the bikes hang from the tops of the wheels on hooks. At first you think how can it hold up the weight of a bike by the thin little tops of the wheels. Well when riding the tops of the wheels and spokes not only hold up the bike but also my 250 lbs of rider.

2. I would put a mini roof rack on projecting around 45 degrees from the trailer. It would be two rails across the trailer with some sort of adjustable rail across them to hold the front fork brackets. The rail would have to be long enough to hold what ever bikes you could carry.

[Thawley]

2. I would put a mini roof rack on projecting around 45 degrees from the trailer. It would be two rails across the trailer with some sort of adjustable rail across them to hold the front fork brackets. The rail would have to be long enough to hold what ever bikes you could carry.

My thinking is more along the lines of the rail-type roof rack you posted on page-1. The fork axle clamps remain in the same position (on the teardrop roof) no mater what the wheelbase of the bike. Then the back wheel just gets clamped into wheel rail (running on top of the tongue) wherever it's wheelbase wants it to be. Obviously, that design would not work for extreme wheelbases – tandems or kids bikes. But I don't think it would be hard to leave enough rear wheel room - fore and aft - to accommodate most adult sized road bikes, MTBs & cruisers...

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ThaWley

...I don't think it would be hard to leave enough rear wheel room - fore and aft - to accommodate most adult sized road bikes, MTBs & cruisers...