Bke Carriers on 4WD

I am not sure but we drove round Brisbane today and saw about a dozen cars with number plates totally obscured by bikes and bike racks.

I was pretty sure that was illegal ! :-(

Terry, I went through the same dilemma, where to put the bikes.

I didn't want them on the towbar.
I thought if I put them on the drawbar, they would get peppered with stones and grave.
What I came up with was to get a 4 channels made up for the wheels to stand in and screwed them to the frame of the floor of the CT.
I already had stainless steel eyelets around the perimeter of the floor of the CT for tying down a bit of firewood, so I got 4 ratchet straps to anchor the bikes to each corner of the floor.

I also got an upholsterer to make me 3 strips of Velcro on some nylon strapping like the ratchet straps. Half of the Velcro is the hooks and the other half is the felt.
The idea of these is to quickly wrap these velcro straps around the bike frames in different spots, then tighten the ratchet straps against the grip of the velcro straps.

The bikes are up out of the way of the flying stones, and I can see them through the rear vision mirror.
They are a bit too expensive to have dropping off along the road and they travel well there.
It takes about 5 minutes to put them there.

Dave

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We had ours on the front of the camper and found the same thing (stone chips, dirt etc).

I'm not sure what your ideal solution will be, but I have a place you can check out, they make some tough racks designed for heavy downhill mountain bikes, but also make some good ones for other bikes too, however I think they're all tow bar mounted. But I'm sure John would be more than happy to custom make you something if required as well. Or it might simply give you some ideas of making something yoruself as well.....

Just scroll down through the product range (check out the High Ride), they also sell qr mounts etc (I'm into my mtb's so apologies if I'm using jibberish language to you).

Grip Sport Australia

We put three bikes on top of our Cub Supamatic hardfloor camper using a similar system of a channel for the rear wheels and I took the front wheels off and using a bit of threaded rod through a U section bolted to the roofrack of the camper I bolted the front forks to it (like a normal axle). They never came loose on an extended outback trip which included Walkers crossing, Strezlecki track, Simpson desert, Oodnadatta track and 3k of bitumen.

Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback.

Perhaps I need two solutions. The top of trailer for moving the bikes arounds the country and to keep them out of the dust and some sort of towbar / spare type carrier that I can transport them when I don't want o shift the camper.

I'm a little reluctant to put them on the camper as I love the idea of the camp being ready pretty much as soon as you pullup. and not having to unload anything is a bonus.


Again thanks for the feedback.

Terry

Mate l went with last year made one out of a bike carrier cut the bottom of and welded the right diameter pipe to it and mounted it on the caravan jockey wheel when driving it worked well

G'day
I just bought a Thule 4 bike carrier for the back of a Pajero. It clears the spare and folds down (a bit heavy with the bikes still on though) enough to fully open the rear door.

Cheers
Jeff

Jeff, do you happen to have the model number of the Thiule carrier you bought.


Thank you