bike rack options for a TT / TV

az350x wrote:
I'm stuck in the same back of trailer/front of trailer/how much $$ do I wanna spend conundrum. I thought I had a good plan- back of trailer, two bikes on bumper-mounted/receiver style bike rack, covered with a nice $80 vented cover, locked to the rack- out of sight/out of mind until we wanted to use them. Then I find this thread, and now I'm torn about what to do. I want them out of the wind/weather in transit (will a cover even work on the FRONT of a trailer?), and my notion is that sometimes they won't even come off of the trailer and hit the ground on stops. Plus, spending $300+ for some mount setup for $250 worth of bikes seems kinda ridiculous...

Sheesh. I think there's such thing as "too MUCH information!"

Yes, sometimes there is too much info. I agree.
After researching for almost a year, we've given it a lot of thought and many of the options are simply not going to work for us. We've decided to go with our original plan of mounting to the back of the TT with a hitch for the bike rack. We actually spoke to our friend that is the head mechanic for a RV center and he said as long as the hitch is welded properly it won't cause a problem for us. So, that's what we're going with. Spoke to another friend and he actually has a 6 spot bike rack he no longer uses and he's giving it to us for free. Excellent! Not saying everyone should go this route, but this is it for us.
In all honesty, I have spent more time researching bike rack options than I did researching the actual TT that I purchased! :h