Bike rack
Hello, I am brand new to the forum and just got my first travel trailer in May. I have a 22ft Coleman. My first trip out I installed a hitch reciever unit on the bumper of the trailer i but a 2 ...
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Bolt696 wrote:Need-A-Vacation wrote:DutchmenSport wrote:
FYI: 2 things I learned from this experience. 1) Safety chains and break-away cable-brake locks don't help a bit when the tongue falls off. 2) You can't tow a trailer when there's no tongue! We gave the tow company a REAL challenge on this one!
WOW!!!! How old was the trailer when that happened???
Bolt,
What do you tow with??? Is a front mounted hitch an option?
I tow with an H3 hummer. The roof rack for the roof is just a little to high to lift 2 bikes with out scratching everything. I have tried the spare tire mount bike rack on the truck and there is no room. They would get crushed on a turn .
After reading all this I think the roof rack on my truck is the only option. I'll have to make it work
Thanks for all the feed Back
I would chalk up Dutchman's experience with a tongue separation as a freak accident and is not normal by any means.. If you look very closely to the inside of the failed A Frame of that tongue you will see very heavily pitted and rusted steel which severally weakened the steel of the A frame.
The the weakened A frame ripped away from the welds..
The A frame was butt welded to the front frame of the trailer with no gussets to reinforce the connection.. It was a poorly designed and poorly executed connection..
I am not a fan of tubular enclosed frames, can't see into them to see how badly rusted they are..
Better A frame construction in which the A frame extended back under the trailer would have made that totally avoidable.
My current TT has C channel frame and the A frame is one piece from the front of the tongue back to where it connects to the side frame pieces. A much better design.
With that said I would not hesitate to go with a bike rack on the A frame, most likely the best place to put one..
The one Amazon has for around $200 looks like a nice setup, it is a bit pricy for all it is but it does allow you to use any standard 2" hitch mounted bike racks.
The downside I see to it is you will still have to lift the bikes up kind of high, but it would be as high as the top of a Hummer.
