Bike stowage take four
Ok I think this might be the final configuration. When we drove away from Michigan I was feeling super confident about the 'max 100lb' Wal-Mart bike rack I just assembled and installed 20 minutes earlier.
Ok I think this might be the final configuration. When we drove away from Michigan I was feeling super confident about the “max 100lb” Wal-Mart bike rack I just assembled and installed 20 minutes earlier. Putting it on the front hitch gave us great views of it’s slow motion undulation as we sped down I-75. “That probably won’t break off and lead to us running the bikes over and destroying something on the truck and/or trailer and/or anyone/anything around us.” I thought to myself. “That’s not gonna break off is it?” Erin said and then immediately put herself sleep to feel better about the situation. This was take one. Take one ended after I was blinded by the rack and rain.
No worries here!
Take two - “Let’s move the bikes to hitch on the back of the camper!” We high-fived this decision and got us miles and miles of worry free travel. Until we stopped for fuel and I checked the bikes. The hitch was bent so badly that the bikes were almost dragging on the highway! CRAP!
Take three - Removed the bikes from the rack and stuffed them in to the camper. This was not a popular decision with the female segment of our group so gathering photo evidence of this configuration was WAY too risky at the time. Then I tossed the bent rack in to the back of the truck with everything else (to do some inter-state Wal-Mart customer service volleyball later). Ahhh now we were jammin! Bikes safe. Truck safe. People driving behind us relatively safe.
Scan email, locker opens - neat!
These picnic table work benches seem to be everywhere
I drilled out the mounting holes on the mounts to accept the 5⁄16-18 bolt and slid them in place. Secured the backs of the bikes with ratchet straps (bought from Sears at the mall - Medalia would be proud), and we were done. They seemed rock solid when I was checking them in the reflection of shiny cars while we were stuck in traffic.
Next I’m going to use the racks to turn our truck in to a moose!
