bike rack mount with access limited roll up cover

Hi All,

Thought I'd share something I put together this past weekend. The problem I was having was I wanted to put a couple bike mounts along the front bed rail, but the rear bulk head of the access limited roll up cover that I have sticks out too far that mounting the bike's forks becomes difficult if the bike mount is mounted directly to the bed rail.

The solution I came up with is a combination of ideas I gathered from several threads I found here on TW, so thanks to all for that!

I basically have a 1"x1" square tube running parallel to the front bed rail about 2.5" away from the front bed rail. The square tube is mounted using three 4" bolts (3/8"-16) with associated hardware as shown in the picture. I was able to pick up the T-nuts (3/8-16, 9/16, item #2YJK9) from Grainger.

I think the square tube is great because I can mount other stuff to it in the future or use it as a light duty tie down. I also ordered extras of the T-nuts in case I want to bolt something else to the bed rails in the future.

Anyways, thought I'd share in case anyone else was trying to do this.

 

good idea. Like the mounting setup!