I'd tell you all why my participation has been spotty lately, but I doubt anyone would give a poop......since I rarely give as much when other people pop in and act like they've been missed.

Been smoking a lot of cigars though....yesssirreeee.

Anyone here have a suggestion for a hitch mount bike rack that isn't outrageously overpriced for a piece of bent channel with rubber bands on it?

bungee cords and duct tape...

btw,,,

nice to see you,homo

most are piece of channel that slides into the receiver....with some other shit bolted or welded to it.

Yet they go for like $200.

I might just take wheel's advice and Rube Goldberg some stuff.

BTW great to have you back.........I think.

Ron

You were gone?

Musta been smoking Jose Piedra's or something.

Any decent rack is going to cost a couple hundred, but any cheap alternative will bounce around and you risk damage to vehicle or bikes when driving on back roads.

What are you driving and how many bikes? I looked for some racking options a couple years ago and may think of something.

Who doesn't?

DED

Wrong...Just wrong :-&

That's exactly what I was considering. Just get a cargo rack, set a bike on it, and bungee it to the spare tire (on the back of my Jeep). Those things are less than $100.

On the bike racks I've seen, the hole through the tongue for the hitch pin is actually threaded with nuts welded up on the inside, so after you have inserted the tongue of the rack into the hitch receiver, rather than a standard hitch pin which would allow some play in the arrangement, you actually thread a hardened bolt (prob grade 8 or 9, but I don't remember the head stamping offhand) though instead of a pin, so the whole thing becomes rigid with the hitch & vehicle - no extra vibrations, no bouncing.

et al.

nine