[Spunger]

Hey guys,

Anyone have the instructions I've seen online to make a bike storage/rack for the back of a pickup truck? I know there was one floating around made with PVC pipe but wood would do fine too. I'd like to do this instead of tying all the bikes down. Just easier to get them in and out.

Just wondering

 

[ChrisKring]

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/bikerack/makerack.htm

 

[andym]

Here's mine. I'm going to change the mounts for the quick releases. The wood ones wobble a little so I'm going to make some out of metal. If you don't have a bed liner similar to mine it won't help much but it could give you some ideas.

 

[stoner_303]

http://www.rockymounts.com/bedmount.asp?nav=flash&page=bedmount

 

[Repack]

A friend has a Dodge Ram. He made a 2x4 rack like King's pic. Works very well. So well that he uses tie-downs only as an insurance measure when driving on the highway.

 

[ChrisKring]

Originally posted by Repack
A friend has a Dodge Ram. He made a 2x4 rack like King's pic. Works very well. So well that he uses tie-downs only as an insurance measure when driving on the highway.

That's not my rack, I was just posting the link that I had bookmarked for the info that he requested.

I just use moto tie downs if the bikes are in the back of my truck. I think it is more secure than PVC and bungies. I do have a rack made out of steel that bolts to a flat bed snowmobile trailer for shuttling up to 9 bikes at a time.

 

[trailhacker]

Originally posted by ChrisKring
I do have a rack made out of steel that bolts to a flat bed snowmobile trailer for shuttling up to 9 bikes at a time.

Mine started life as a 1976 Datsun truck, then became a 120" x 80" flatbed. Rack holds 14, 15 if it has too.

I also have a 2x4 rack in the bed that holds 5 bikes, no straps needed. At least for "normal" driving.

 

[ChrisKring]

Here is my steel rack in it's proto form

 

[mplutodh1]

Originally posted by stoner_303
http://www.rockymounts.com/bedmount.asp?nav=flash&page=bedmount

think he was talking about making a rack... why go to the hassle of taking the wheels off? heck get the sportworks pickup rack if you are going to buy one, but again think he was talking about building one.

 

[Spunger]

sportworks are expensive. I think it was $100 per wheel holder. Just seems alot (though I know they are nice)

I mainly wanted something to put in the truck bed or in the garage to store/hold the bikes.

The PVC idea looks like it might work though for what I need and it seems cheap enough to make!