After seeing Phil's (pjpvi) bike rack that he designed and had made I realized that I wanted somthing similar. I liked how the bikes were not hanging out off of a receiver hitch or up high on the roof. They swing out with the gate on the Aluminess bumper. Phil was kind enough to send his info and drawings and I ended up making my own rack. Mine is certainly not as pretty but it works.
All told I have about $110 into it as I already had the bike trays. I cut and prepped aluminum angle and then had a friend weld it, then I bolted it to the tray. The inside of the tray corners are reinforced with aluminum angle as well. So far it has been great. The bikes don't move around like the do when mounted to a receiver or mounted on the roof. Now if I could only figure out a through axle mount for the wheel on my Yeti.
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