Using rear ladder for bike rack

Just wondering if the ladder bike racks (2 bike carrier) are ok to use on the sundance trailers? Thanks

Some people do this - but it's not typically recommended as it's easy to overload most RV ladders. It's not just the static weight of the bikes, it's the dynamic/momentum weight of them bouncing back there.

Some have had success, others have not. Please be careful on loading if you do store them there.

Jim

Personally I would not recommend it. If you have ever followed someone with any thing tied to the ladder, you think, what would happen if it came off? Most of what I have seen, has been swinging and bouncing around. I removed my ladder after discovering all of the plastic ends that mount the rungs to the rails were broken or cracked severely. I have new plastic ends to replace all of them, but decided to leave it off and carry a folding ladder for now since we are not packed to the gills.

Not a good idea!

Here's what we use for our bikes and love it!! It folds up when not holding the bikes....The Swagman XC Bike rack holds 2 bikes... there is even a video showing you how it works...

http://www.bikerackshops.com/SG64650PS.html

I would not do it. I have had bike racks on every unit I have owned and have had to weld extra supports for them. There is an unbelievable amount of energy in those bouncing bikes. The one I have now is an expensive one that goes into a 2 inch hitch receiver I had welded to the Bighorn. On 5 week trip to Colorado from Ohio, the bouncing motion of the bikes bent part of the rack and I had to use some 1/2 npt black pipe to repair and strengthen it.

dieselsweetheart said:

Here's what we use for our bikes and love it!! It folds up when not holding the bikes....The Swagman XC Bike rack holds 2 bikes... there is even a video showing you how it works...

http://www.bikerackshops.com/SG64650PS.html

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Unless you have a hitch receiver mounted to the rear of your trailer, how do you pull with that rack in place?? Back with the TT, I would remove the front tires so I could rotate the handle bars parallel to the frames and lay them on a tarp spread on the bed. With the 5'er on a seasonal site, the bikes go up the second trip and home the one before the last.