Transporting your bikes. UPDATE! CHECK THIS OUT!!

[ED-PV]

This is how I transport the family bikes when we go riding out of town. A couple of the bikes' tires are too wide for the rails, but I use my surfboard straps to ensure they don't go anywhere...work great!

[Voyager Al]

do a search on google for PVC Bike rack. I found a site that had plans,it was an Iowa bike club, I believe. I built it for my full sized van.
Oh, heres the site
http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/goodi ... keRack.htm

[axsepul]

here is mine
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=35755&p=516213#p516213

[Rat Rod]

Great ideas here.

[expjawa]

Here's how I do mine:





I can fit 5 or 6 inside too if I'm careful how I put them in. But I'm not likely to actually load up more than I have seats available in the vehicle for...

[cman]

I purchased a bed rack for my pickup off of CL for $25-30. I mounted it a little differently as I have a hard retractable cover also. You do have to remove the front wheel.

Similar to this.



The kids bikes just get strapped to the adult bikes for now.

[Buck Masterson]

[Buck Masterson]

I ran to the store real quick and did not have my phone on me, but there was guy that had 3 bikes in the back of an S10 and it was so simple I feel stupid for not thinking of it. He had wood in the stake holes, about 12 inches high, then had a threaded rod with an assortment of nuts and washers, he just torqued down the forks with the nuts and washers, and ran a bungy cord through the seat posts to the back stake holes.

[aka_locojoe]

I ran to the store real quick and did not have my phone on me, but there was guy that had 3 bikes in the back of an S10 and it was so simple I feel stupid for not thinking of it. He had wood in the stake holes, about 12 inches high, then had a threaded rod with an assortment of nuts and washers, he just torqued down the forks with the nuts and washers, and ran a bungy cord through the seat posts to the back stake holes.

Having trouble visualizing this. I need pics or a drawing

[Buck Masterson]

I ran to the store real quick and did not have my phone on me, but there was guy that had 3 bikes in the back of an S10 and it was so simple I feel stupid for not thinking of it. He had wood in the stake holes, about 12 inches high, then had a threaded rod with an assortment of nuts and washers, he just torqued down the forks with the nuts and washers, and ran a bungy cord through the seat posts to the back stake holes.

Having trouble visualizing this. I need pics or a drawing

Think of a clothes line.

[aka_locojoe]

So you remove the front wheel and set the fork drop-outs on the threaded rod and then tighten nuts around drop-outs. I wonder how sturdy the threaded rod is going across that span though?

Thanks for the drawing

[Buck Masterson]

So you remove the front wheel and set the fork drop-outs on the threaded rod and then tighten nuts around drop-outs. I wonder how sturdy the threaded rod is going across that span though?

Thanks for the drawing

Well I tried anyway! lol They bikes the guy had were two 26 inch mountain bikes close to the side, and then one small child's bike in the middle, it was almost hanging upside down. So it looked like the weight was pretty evenly distributed. If I tried this, I think it would be a two bike max with some sort of a prop in the middle. I will say though I did not get to see in the bed itself, so he may have had some other kind of support as well.