Tailgate Bike Pad - any experience?
Anyone have any experience with tailgate bike pads? I'm considering one for our F150, but I worry a bit about damage to the back of the tailgate from the bike tires. If anyone has used one, I'd be i...
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Don't own one and have looked at them out of curiosity
Won't use it with my plastic bicycles and only a receiver mounted carrier with foam pads to keep the plastic from touching anything else. I'd rather have my plastic bicycles on a carrier, rather then risking a $10K Madone and $5K Farley on a pad and the potential the bicycle might bounce out on a bump or gravel road...
Also, if you take off a wheel that has a disc brake on it...make sure to place a piece of plastic/etc material in place of where the disc would be on the caliper
If you bump the brake lever and move the caliper piston, it will NOT easily allow the disc to go back on...been there done that... Opening the bleed screw is nothing I'd like to do when just placing a spacer in there will do
An okay thing for my metal bicycles, but since have a receiver mounted carrier, not anything I'll need to do.
Edit...locking them up is also a concern with these cushions...
Won't use it with my plastic bicycles and only a receiver mounted carrier with foam pads to keep the plastic from touching anything else. I'd rather have my plastic bicycles on a carrier, rather then risking a $10K Madone and $5K Farley on a pad and the potential the bicycle might bounce out on a bump or gravel road...
Also, if you take off a wheel that has a disc brake on it...make sure to place a piece of plastic/etc material in place of where the disc would be on the caliper
If you bump the brake lever and move the caliper piston, it will NOT easily allow the disc to go back on...been there done that... Opening the bleed screw is nothing I'd like to do when just placing a spacer in there will do
An okay thing for my metal bicycles, but since have a receiver mounted carrier, not anything I'll need to do.
Edit...locking them up is also a concern with these cushions...
