shortbox mountain bike hauling

Heres my setup Wiggs....Factory cargo bars with a Yakima tray mounted.It leaves basically your whole box underneath for gear.

 

For any of you that have the factory bed rail bike mount system, how do you lock up your bikes and to what?

 

Cable lock of choice thru your frame/rear wheel & loose front wheel to the rear bed floor D-ring. Unless perps have alot of time and the right T-10 to undo the D-ring its not going anywhere.

 

Ok, thats what I was thinking. I have a large cable for locking down construction equip, which should work fine. I just havent had to lock them in yet.
Thanks!

 

Hey man here is what i've done for a bike rack. Right now i hold the bike in place with light ratchet straps but once i get a tail gate extender it will be perfect. Hope this helps.

 

Very cool. You made? Are those 2x6's?

 

yes I made it .and they are 2x6's and painted with cheap spray on rhino coating

 

I use the cargo bars and a set of Thule trays. Works great and gives me room to put stuff under the bars like firewood when I go camping.

 

You could always go this route!

 

This is my way of travel.

Would LOVE to do this with a basket in the middle and two bikes on the ends.

TruckCoversUSA.com for info. on the bed cover.

 

all great .my problem is my forks have a 20mm axle

 

I was just about to re-post you had 20mm axel.

honestly I'd get a hitch mount, unless you camp really light. I go with 2 others in my truck, 3 bikes on the hitch mount and the bed is always rammed full of gear food bbq etc etc.

cable ran through all frames and wheels locked to the saftey chain hole on the hitch.

 

For a 20mm axle you could just buy the dakine tailgate cover or use one of these.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/kuat-bike-rack-2008.html

 

That's badass. I'm gunna do something similar for this season.

 

Do you have this new rocky mounts rack? The main thing that i liked is that it has a lock! which the factory ones dont!

 

Rocky Mounts are the best I have seen so far, I wanted something that locked because bikes are quickly stolen here in Germany.

 

I just picked up a Cannodale Rize 3 -- with a Lefty fork so my rack mount system doesn't work. Do the bikes basically hang over the tailgate? I would imagine that you would strap them down too. I am interested in anyone's experiences with the Dakar pad... Thanks

 

Sick Bike!!!

 

Thanks. Yea I can't wait to get it out on the trails. Looks like we will a period of dry weather so thats good. I am moving up from a C-dale F600 hard tail to full suspension - so its gonna be insane.

 

Hey I don't know if this helps but I just did the DIY bike mount where you take regular bike mounts and mount them to the bed track instead of spending the money on the ones from toyota. I had the fork mounts from my previous truck and used washers that fit perfects in the rail to secure it down. here are some pics. There is plenty of space in the bed because my two bikes one road bike and one mountain bike sit right on the side. Here on some pics!