where do you put your bikes?

chuggs wrote:
If you don't mind the view...you can add a reciever hitch to the front of your tow vehicle and put a rack there.

I've seem some pin boxes modified to accept a reciever.

You can also add a rear reciever that bolts or welds to the frame of your 5th wheel... Curt makes one...check out etrailer.com for details.

We do the front rack...I'm looking into a rear frame mounted reciever hitch...we sometimes put the bikes inside the camper...and we have some folding bikes that can be stored easily inside the camper.

I put a rear receiver on the last rig, had the factory do it on this rig, then ended up with a receiver on the front of the new truck.

Personally I have found I prefer the bikes on the front, now that I've done both.

I have an extremely light aluminum ladder attached to my OEM FW ladder and that is about the maximum weight I would want back there.

We went with a Bodiak front receiver and a Reese 2-bike rack. The Bodiak mounts on your tow hooks. When traveling I just leave it on, when camped for extended periods of time I unbolt it, which takes about 2 minutes.

The Reese bike rack was under $75.00 at Walmart. I have mine adjusted so just 2 or 3 inches of handle bars stick up over the hood. They are very secure and do not bounce around.

I like this set up because while traveling if we need to take our bikes somewhere after we set up camp we can simply transfer the bike rack to the truck's rear receiver and away we go. We don't have to mess around with trying to secure them in the bed or the truck.

Ladder isn't designed to hold bouncing bikes. The screws are designed for shear weight and are "screwed" into beefed up ply blocks. Do us all a favor and install a safety wire to your frame.

BB_TX wrote:
I used to remove the front wheels and lay two bikes in the bed of the truck in front of the hitch. And sometimes another behind it.
Built a pin box receiver for the bike rack to free up the bed.

Same here... remove the front wheels and lay the bikes in the bed of the truck in front of the hitch. Plenty of room with an 8 foot bed, but a bit tight with a 6.5. Works, but a bit of a PITA getting them in and out. Thought about having a receiver attached to the pin box, but don't want to have to reach that high go get them down. Thought about a rack on the ladder, but I've seen too many bikes 'riding rough', and I'm not too comfortable with the toll it might take on the ladder mounts, especially when I can't watch them. I liked the idea of mounting a receiver on the front of the truck, but don't care for the loss of road visibility, and the fact that the bikes will be the first to hit the bugs, road crud, etc. All that leaves is mounting a receiver to the rear frame as we, too, have a 'bumper-less' back end. So, until an idea that I like better comes along, it's the truck bed for us.

heaterswa wrote:
We also mount our bikes up front on our FMR (front mounted receiver)..

We do as well.

We also mount our bikes up front on our FMR (front mounted receiver)..

I used to remove the front wheels and lay two bikes in the bed of the truck in front of the hitch. And sometimes another behind it.
Built a pin box receiver for the bike rack to free up the bed.

Lots of previous discussion. Search for `bike rack' then search the results for words/phrases like `ladder' to minimize the responses. Or just search in Fifth-Wheels

If you don't mind the view...you can add a reciever hitch to the front of your tow vehicle and put a rack there.

I've seem some pin boxes modified to accept a reciever.

You can also add a rear reciever that bolts or welds to the frame of your 5th wheel... Curt makes one...check out etrailer.com for details.

We do the front rack...I'm looking into a rear frame mounted reciever hitch...we sometimes put the bikes inside the camper...and we have some folding bikes that can be stored easily inside the camper.