Tongue Mounted Bike Rack?

Anyone use a tongue mounted bike rack like this? https://www.etrailer.com/RV-and-Camper-Bike-Racks/Swagman/S80503.html#exp-productdetails=.reviews Thoughts?

 

I would be concerned about just how much tongue weight you are adding. And by the photo I saw I wonder just how easy or not it would be to mount the bikes. I also don’t think I’d like the wind pressure on the bikes since they would be above the height of the vehicle while being positioned east/west relative to the car being north/south. Roof mounted bikes always line up the other way.

Too many potential issues for me.

 

How many bikes do you carry? 2 or 4?

 

Unfortunately we have a 1 1/4" receiver and I guess they don't make the dual receivers for that size probably because of torque or something?

 

Thanks! The mid-sized unibody AWD SUVs coming out and/or unibody AWD pickups are a great combo for towing CI, imho.
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Did u get tow pkg? With aux trans cooler. Or is that only on the Ridgelines?

 

My reservation with trailer-mounted bicycle rack is simple - logistics. Unless you set up camp near the place where you are going to ride, you'll need to transport the bicycle to that place. If your bicycle is mounted on the trailer, how are you going to do that?

 

I use a 1up rack on the back of the 560. Upon arrival the bike and rack come off. If the bike needs to be transported I just attach the rack to the car hitch and load the bike. The rack itself takes less than a minute to load or unload.

 

Another solution is to have a front receiver hitch installed, and mount the bicycles on it. Sure, you won't be able to see much, if you are driving a Subaru, but it will look badass!

 

After trying all sorts of options (bike on CI roof, bike on CI hitch, bike on front mounted TV hitch, bike on roof of TV, folding bike inside CI) I am using a One Up on the CI receiver then moving the One Up to a duel receiver on the TV, if needed.

 

Ya, thats my plan too...or leave bike at home!

 

Yes, had to take the front receiver off to make room for the Warn winch. (I had to put a skid plate insert on the front receiver to avoid “full stops” on rutted roads.)

 

Burly!

 

I've been using a double receiver setup for a few years for the bike rack and it works well enough. An annoying thing however is that the lever to release the trailer from the ball hits the bike rack mount when you want to disconnect the trailer at the site, just enough to prevent release. This means I have to remove the bike and disconnect the rack before I can disconnect the trailer, then remount the rack and bike to go somewhere with it. Irritating. It looks like one could get enough separation with this setup end that problem.