So I have a Bump It Offroad rear bumper with the rear tire swing out option (and ladder swing out) and I'm trying to figure out the best way to use a tray style bike rack using a hitch mount. With the tire installed simply mounting up the rack to the existing BIO hitch mount causes the rack to not be able to stow/fold up. I bought a 7" extension for the rack but neglected to notice that the rack gets in the way of the swingout arm (see photo).
Im wondering if i can have my tire swingout modified with a 2" receiver hitch to mount the bike rack to. There is room for it on the arm, however im worried about the amount of load that the arm will take when the bikes are loaded on there. I usually transport 2 mountain bikes, however sometimes ill carry my friends e-bike. Lets say its 80 lbs of bike (e-bikes are heavy, ~50lbs)+ the rack which weighs 50 lbs, so 130lbs worst case. Not sure how much the spare weighs, but its a factory 16" wheel with a 33" tire. I also plan on adding a hi-lift to this at a later point. It seems like that thing will be carrying 250lbs worst case which seems like an awful lot of weight. (for reference, 5 gal of water is ~42lbs, so the bike rack would be equivalent of adding ~3 full jerry cans to the swingout)
Anyone have any thoughts? I like the functionality added but it seems like it might be too much weight.
I can always buy one of the swing out style hitch receivers or a drop hitch extension but opening the rear hatch would be a PITA (open bike swing out, open tire swing out, open ladder swing out, open hatch, lower gate). If i mount it onto the tire swingout its removes a step as the bikes would swing out with the tire.
Im wondering if i can have my tire swingout modified with a 2" receiver hitch to mount the bike rack to. There is room for it on the arm, however im worried about the amount of load that the arm will take when the bikes are loaded on there. I usually transport 2 mountain bikes, however sometimes ill carry my friends e-bike. Lets say its 80 lbs of bike (e-bikes are heavy, ~50lbs)+ the rack which weighs 50 lbs, so 130lbs worst case. Not sure how much the spare weighs, but its a factory 16" wheel with a 33" tire. I also plan on adding a hi-lift to this at a later point. It seems like that thing will be carrying 250lbs worst case which seems like an awful lot of weight. (for reference, 5 gal of water is ~42lbs, so the bike rack would be equivalent of adding ~3 full jerry cans to the swingout)
Anyone have any thoughts? I like the functionality added but it seems like it might be too much weight.
I can always buy one of the swing out style hitch receivers or a drop hitch extension but opening the rear hatch would be a PITA (open bike swing out, open tire swing out, open ladder swing out, open hatch, lower gate). If i mount it onto the tire swingout its removes a step as the bikes would swing out with the tire.