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We have the velocirax for our daily vehicle and it’s my favorite bike rack ever. It’s a vertical style but holds the the bike by the front tire and will lower out of the way to access the rear hatch.My homemade vertical abomination. Good up to 100 pounds of bike. At that weight I hit the swingarm design limit. The rack is around 50lbs of aluminum.
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I’ve got an Alta Racks vertical bike rack that I use for two +50lb e-bikes plus other family bikes for a big outing. It‘s build quality feels high-end, much like the 1Ups that I’ve seen. They also have an option for a small dirt bike/moto rack.
Love it! I’ve had four heavy e-bikes back there and never catch myself sneaking a peak in the rear view to make sure that things are okay rambling down some rutted out fire road. I went for the De Sanchez model with their new swinger and six trays that I’ve reduced to five for clearance on the truck’s hatch. Loading is easy enough even with a 50 lb bike if you use the tilt procedure.Hey. I'm thinking of getting an alta rack. Which one do you have? You still like it? How difficult is it to load/unload? Got any pictures? Mine would be on a 100 series but pretty similar. I need to haul 4 bikes and the tray style racks are just too long.
Oh, on my own I’m 100% cheating! But with gremlins along we have one on a Kids Ride Shotgun jump seat and the other will catch a tow rope for big climbs. They’d done every mile of single track in our area by 3 years old on the jump seat!"Dad is cheating with that badass e-bike!"
JK...but seriously, nice bike and rack!
I haven’t used the assisted strut on the Velocirax, but I find the Alta very easy to use. I suspect my wife would struggle a bit if you had 250lbs of e-bikes needing a push, but she can do it with two adult bikes and a kids bike easy enough. It moves smoothly and you can tune the friction in the system with the mounting bolts. The weight is probably less of an issue than the fact that when fully loaded you inevitably have a reach around a bike to get a good grip on the rack. I‘m a bigger guy and have never even thought about the lift weight even with the thing pretty close to max capacity. The Two Wheeling Tots people on YouTube have a good video: And with lighter bikes, honestly it’s easy enough just to toss ‘em up there without using the tilt feature. For the kids bikes, a dirt jumper, road bikes, etc. I’d never both to fold it down.@Millennial thanks for the pics and review! Couple questions for you.
1. I think my decision had come down to Alta or Velocirax. The videos from Velocirax make theirs looks so easy to load and easy to operate the tilt feature even with bikes loaded. I can't seam to find a video of the Alta rack where they operate the tilt with bikes loaded even though I'm assuming that is what is expected. Is the tilting feature easy enough to do? Even for my wife?
2. What size hitch from them are you using in those pictures?
Oh, and one more does the swinger operate as smoothly as they claim?
Thanks