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Desert_Captain
Nov 16, 2014Explorer III
Updated from earlier post to add the pic's:
Installed our new Swagman two bike rack. We leave in an hour or so for Kartchner Caverns which should be a good road/field test for the rack and bikes. My neighbor has a virtual machine shop in his garage and with his help we drilled two additional holes on the shaft that feeds into the 2" receiver. This allowed me to move the rack 6" closer to the coach reducing the overhang making the rack significantly stronger. I'll follow up with pictures when we return.
Just got back from Kartchner Caverns. Here are a couple of shots of the new bike rack:

The round silver head on the left is the Master Lock locking pin and just aft of that a half inch bolt that when torqued down eliminates any play in the rack receiver connection. This worked very well with both bikes riding securely but easy to access.

:C
Installed our new Swagman two bike rack. We leave in an hour or so for Kartchner Caverns which should be a good road/field test for the rack and bikes. My neighbor has a virtual machine shop in his garage and with his help we drilled two additional holes on the shaft that feeds into the 2" receiver. This allowed me to move the rack 6" closer to the coach reducing the overhang making the rack significantly stronger. I'll follow up with pictures when we return.
Just got back from Kartchner Caverns. Here are a couple of shots of the new bike rack:

The round silver head on the left is the Master Lock locking pin and just aft of that a half inch bolt that when torqued down eliminates any play in the rack receiver connection. This worked very well with both bikes riding securely but easy to access.

:C
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