Receiver Bike Racks – The Bike Rack For Your SUV
If you’ve got a pickup truck or an SUV, you may think that you don’t need to make an investment in a bike rack of any kind, because there’s plenty of room in the back of the truck or your sports utility vehicle for a bike or two. Right?
However, after you’ve driven around with your bike rattling around in the back of your SUV or truck, you may change your mind.
It’s not only the noise that may get on your nerves. Grease and dirt can quite easily transfer from your bike to the upholstery of the SUV, and of course you’ll have to flip those seats up and down to ensure you have enough room.
Even if you don’t care about the state of your truck bed, it’s easy to scratch your bike as well and you don’t want that. Scratches turn into rust. And if you’re carrying more than one bike, the chances of scratches or staining is multiplied.
What can you do about it? You can’t get a roof rack for your truck, obviously, and the roof of your SUV will be too high to comfortably lift a bike up to the roof.
No problem – if...