Hitch Bike Rack - Bicycle Carrier For That Long And Winding Road

Did your bikes take up most of your trailer space that cramped your comfort on your last vacation? With a trailer hitch bike rack, you can safely mount your bicycles outside your vehicle and save your trailer space for other things giving you more room. A trailer hitch bike rack fits into the trailer hitch receiver hitch opening and provide specifically designed metal racks that hold and transport bikes.

A Trailer Hitch bike rack is of two different types:
- One that sticks up vertically behind the rear of the vehicle
- One that fits horizontally

That is, one holds the bike by the fork and wheels and the other clasps the crossbar. A trailer hitch bike rack can transport up to five bikes at once. These racks are larger and more troublesome than smaller racks, but they can be useful, especially when transporting several bikes.

A hitch rack is attached to the trailer hitch or tow ball on a car. The bolt on and the swan neck are the two main different types of towball. The bolt on is fixed with bolts on a mounting plate and the swan neck appears from beneath the bumper. It is important to know the type of your towball so that you know which particular hitch bike rack to choose.

A hitch rack from Yakima, Thule or Swagman are well built, safe and reliable. If canoeing or kayaking is your passion then any aluminium hitch rack will carry up to two canoes or five kayaks by using it as the rear carrier.