Bike rack options?

[Rustymayes]

I am in the process of putting together the bits to flat tow the Canyon and for now I will just carry the bike in the bed of the truck. The wife has not committed to wanting to buy an e-bike for her to ride so for now this should suffice. If we get her a bike I will buy a rack to go on either the truck or the RV when we don't take the truck with us. Thanks for the input and ideas. Incidentally, I decide to go with Roadmaster for my tow rig. I am planning on installing the invisibrake system as I like the idea of not dealing with brake set up and break down every time I hook up the truck. There is enough to deal with just getting the truck into neutral for towing being that it is all electronically controlled.

 

[JRS]

I am in the process of putting together the bits to flat tow the Canyon and for now I will just carry the bike in the bed of the truck. The wife has not committed to wanting to buy an e-bike for her to ride so for now this should suffice. If we get her a bike I will buy a rack to go on either the truck or the RV when we don't take the truck with us. Thanks for the input and ideas. Incidentally, I decide to go with Roadmaster for my tow rig. I am planning on installing the invisibrake system as I like the idea of not dealing with brake set up and break down every time I hook up the truck. There is enough to deal with just getting the truck into neutral for towing being that it is all electronically controlled.

I've seen a couple pickups with bikes standing up on/in the bed. They could be hand made but question if there are there bike racks for use in the bed of pickups?

 

[Rustymayes]

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These look like they would do the trick

 

[Rich W.]

Some hillbilly engineering going one here (did I mention it might be ugly?), but I’m only in it for around $115 and it will keep the bikes safe. I bought the rack in the first pic used for $40 just to get the vertical support parts - it has everything for two bikes but I just used that much of it to go pick up a bike from my LBS. It might have been ok for two 60lb e-MTBs but I want more support under them than that rack could provide.

Bought a 4“ hitch riser ($50) because I wanted the tray higher, and when it was on the jeep hitch, the spare tire used up 11” of horizontal space of the tray. So now it sits 4” higher and further back enough that the spare doesn't interfere.

I’ve had the cargo tray in the barn for years. The wood is temporary (just sizing things up) and it will have tail lights (I’ll use my magnetic temps for now). I spent about 2 hours just strengthening the old cargo tray because even though its “rated” for 500lbs, it was a rickety POS. So I welded every seem and joint and with the help of a couple hitch stabilizers ($11 each) it doesn't move around much. I’ll also put some sheet metal in the bottom over the expanded steel ro keep the bikes a little cleaner.