Bike Racks

I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I installed a
new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing out
carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep or
behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or 4
feet. Anyone have an option?

What about the ones that go on the spare tire?

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

denis roy wrote:
>
> I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I installed a
> new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing out
> carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep or
> behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or 4
> feet. Anyone have an option?

I have thought of that, but isn't there only a two bike option. If I could,
I want a rack for 3 bikes.



"Mike Romain" > wrote in message
...
> What about the ones that go on the spare tire?
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> denis roy wrote:
>>
>> I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I installed
>> a
>> new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing
>> out
>> carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep
>> or
>> behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or
>> 4
>> feet. Anyone have an option?

Any recommendations on these? I am looking for a one bike rack for my
tire carrier.. something I can lock down but remove simply...

I've been through every kind of bike rack you can imagine, bumper, spare tire,
roof with the wheels on, roof with the wheels off, even on the roof upside down.
I hate to think how much money I've spent trying to find one that works. The
one thing I've found is cheap racks suck. I've had 3 Yakima racks and I could
recommend everyone of them, but everyone of them was kind of spendy.

Does your new bumper have a 2" receiver? If so my friend there is Hope! In all
my bike rack trials I finally settled on a Yakima 4 bike receiver rack. Because
all my vehicles have 2" receivers it is easy to move it around depending on what
I want to drive. Now the trick is when you want to use the jeep with the swing
away tire rack, buy or make and extender. They sell them at RV stores so people
with truck campers can also pull trailers. I'm handy with a welder so I made my
own for a few bucks.

http://www.cabelas.com/products/Cpod0006596.jsp

Because it sticks out pretty far behind the Jeep I wouldn't want to do any
extreme 4 wheeling with the rack on. But unlike the roof rack it is very easy
to put the bikes on and off. And also unlike the roof rack you don't have to
always be looking up lest you forget about the bikes and drive into something.

If you didn't want it to hang off the back you could always put a front receiver
hitch on and hang them on the front. You'd never forget they were there <lol>

Good Luck
Dean
http://home.comcast.net/~1redcreek/j...pin-bumper.htm



On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:18:09 -0400, "denis roy" > wrote:

>I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I installed a
>new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing out
>carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep or
>behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or 4
>feet. Anyone have an option?
>

you can get three bike racks with a spare tire mount.


"denis roy" > wrote in message
...
>I have thought of that, but isn't there only a two bike option. If I could,
>I want a rack for 3 bikes.
>
>
>
> "Mike Romain" > wrote in message
> ...
>> What about the ones that go on the spare tire?
>>
>> Mike
>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>> denis roy wrote:
>>>
>>> I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I
>>> installed a
>>> new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing
>>> out
>>> carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep
>>> or
>>> behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or
>>> 4
>>> feet. Anyone have an option?
>
>

I'd think a bungee cord would do that.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
http://www.billhughes.com/

Gazoo wrote:
>
> you can get three bike racks with a spare tire mount.

denis roy wrote:
> I am thinking of getting a bike rack for my TJ. The thing is, I installed a
> new bumper which removes the tire on the back door and goes on a swing out
> carrier. So, my option are I find a rake that goes in front of the jeep or
> behind. But if I put it behind, Man that's going to be sticking out 3 or 4
> feet. Anyone have an option?
>
>


I cut down a Yakima Big Horn 4 hitch mount rack to go into a front 2"
hitch. The stock rack carried the bikes too high. This lets me carry
bikes on the front while towing a trailer.

Simply drill new holes in the Yakima upright, slide the arm assembly
down, shim the arms to slightly above level, and you're good to go.
Check for bottom clearance before drilling. If you leave the post
full-length, you can move the arms back up for other vehicles.

Be careful with racks that attach to the spare. I lost two door latches
using one. The rear gate hardware can barely handle the 30" spare,
much less bikes.

Barry