Help with bike rack...

[uberhahn]

I picked this bike rack up at a local yard sale for $1.00 Clearly someone just wanted it gone. I'm having a hard time figuring out how the bike actually mounts. There are two crossbars, with the same attachments.

If it won't work, I'm sure I could fit a Yak or Thule sytem on, just wondering if anyone has seen similar.

thanks,
uber.

 

[EdsCruisin]

The bike mounts upside down with the seat in the triangular piece and the handlebars under the clamps.

 

[knoll0351]

Wow that is so simple now that you've said that, but I wouldn't have ever guessed that...ever. I am building a rack for my wife's bike and was even tossing around the idea of just a seat pipe jobbie welded to a steel runner. So the bike would be upside down supported by the seat pipe jobbie.... I can see it in my head. Anyway I scrapped that idea and have bought the angle iron and quick conect jobbie for the front axle instead. Oh back to my point I was planning on building something very similar to that and still didn't see it.

Cool idea!!

 

[EdsCruisin]

I recommend you put a bungee or something through the tires when you carry the bike though. The spinning wheels will exert an astounding gyroscopic force on your car and the bikes.