How do you secure yours? We are getting one with large garage so the bikes would be orientated facing side to side rather than front to back so wonder what the best option is? Side securing straps are a given but would you use a rack style stand for front or rear wheel or take the front wheel off and use one of those bolt through stands. The garage is tall enough for us not to need to take the wheels off.
I'm thinking the bolt trough thing might be more solid but then i wonder if all that lateral movement might not be great for the forks. Hmmmm...
What do you lot do??
Thule do bike racks for motorhome garages that slide in/out
and they are very expensive indeed.
Horizontal plank, padded of course, with a few 'drop down' sections of wood which straddle the top tubes. Make it the right size and it will brace against front and rear of the garage - you just rotate and drop it in place?
Bolt through mount will be fine. Forks are designed to cope with 100kg of rider smashing through twisty rock gardens.
Get some suitably sized foam pipe-lagging for the stanchions and shock, then just secure with a bungee<br />APF
I'm sure @Tracey has posted about some padded covers they use on theirs previously. Could be wrong.
We made a sliding rack with fork mounts. 90 nights so far and its a pleasure to use.
Bikes are lengthwise and go in top and tail.
We can get four 29ers in ours side by side including ebikes all with wheels on We can get a fifth in with wheels off if we ever needed.
We remove the pedals for ease of loading. Bikes are in padded bike shrouds and in eight years we have had no bike or garage damage.
We bungee around the last bike in saddle or bars to a forward bed rail so no movement.
Cheers Tracey. Your solution is about as simple as it gets. I suspect i may have been massively overthinking this.
It is. Its been tried and tested all over the UK and Europe when Abigale was racing.
No faffing, bikes go straight in and out and then locked together
Rightly or wrongly we can also charge the ebikes whilst they are in it.
