hey I'm Angie I'm Ronda and we were Adventures in NoMadness hey right now
we've got our bikes on the back of our truck and it's just not quite working out with us
so we're gonna explain why and we're going to move these bikes to the back of the RV
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bike rack systems it's kind of a hot topic among our viewers sometimes and we are going to move
to our third try with this we thought we were being kind of smart because we're like hey we
got this cool retractable tonneau cover we've got our Pod over there and I thought this would
be pretty slick to have the bikes up here and for the most part it is a pretty slick to have that
up there but there's a couple of flaws with it namely we cannot find any cover that's actually
gonna stay up there to protect the bikes so you know no matter what you do straps bungee cords
netting there's just too much air flow going over to not sort of rip up the cover that we had so we
we didn't initially want to put a bike rack on the back of the RV because it makes it about
two feet longer and you know if we want to just go be able to bike ride and take the bikes with
the truck and not directly from the campground we thought this is a great system to be able to just
have them on the back of the truck all the time but again you know it's if it's raining we can't
have the cover on the bikes are more exposed to the weather so we're finally giving in now because
I said this is our third system we actually had this is swagman here and I'll talk about that
more a little bit later but basically what we did have before was yakima racks with the taut
front tires on and the bar that held the bikes right here and it didn't work out very well it
kind of did but didn't work out the greatest just because there was just too much play I couldn't
get those tightened down enough and the bikes were kind of you know swaying back and forth I didn't
really like that at all so this is actually worked pretty good with the front fork down
and then we've got a couple of tire holders over there so we're gonna keep this on the back of the
truck so that if we do want to ride somewhere else we can just throw the the bikes up here
you could move the rack from the back of the RV to the back of the truck and do it that way
but adds 50 pounds you're moving each time just for the bike rack and we don't really want to do
that so let's go look and see what we bought next and you can watch me install it so hey we're in
a garage and you're probably wondering why well house sitting for some friends this week and we
thought it was a good opportunity to go ahead and order the Swagman Dispatch to their house
and then we can install it while we're here this week so Swagman is Canadian there at
Okanagan BC and this is an RV approved a lot of people really like this and we've I've seen it
on the forum this cost me about three hundred and thirty five dollars on Amazon the other
one that people absolutely love is considerably more money though is the One Up I believe it's
called and it's more money I'm kind of gonna try this one out for a while and see if it's as good
for a less price so I will let you know on that anyway let's get this thing installed there are
some assembly required so I've got all the pieces laid out and I'm ready to assemble this bike rack
just like that it's simple so I just needed a half inch socket to do four bolts bam bam bam
and bam and need a screwdriver because there's a set screw on the end of the bar so that these
things don't come off and we're ready to put it on the RV let's get fifty crowns
I lied you will need another tool 7/8 socket because this is supposed to be
torque to 50 foot-pounds I don't know where my socket set now so I'm gonna
have to come back and do that so real tight crescent wrench at this point but
this is threaded so this will get this in real tight without it swinging around
solid as a rock this comes with a really nice locking cable for your
bike so I'm gonna go and put it on the other side with the actual lock
okay so I have both bikes installed and it feel really solid to me these straps here one strap
there and one strap there and then the bar that goes over the top and they feel like they're not
really gonna move on here at all so pretty happy with this setup and we'll give a report maybe in
a couple months after moving around to see how much we still like these there's a couple of
spots where the bikes might possibly rub a little bit so we could put something in between there if
we need to but like I said we'll give a report in a while about how we like this and if you
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Angie and I can't see [ __ ] that's too bright out here it pays to be a lot taller I guess