If I’m pulling a pop-up camper with my SUV, how should I haul my bicycles?
I have a Chevy Trailblazer SUV, and I’m thinking about buying a pop-up (folding) camper. We would like to take our bicycles with us when we go camping. I currently use a bike carrier that mounts to my trailer hitch. So – if I connect the camper to my trailer hitch, what’s the best way to haul the bicycles? They don’t fit in the back of the SUV, and I DON’T want to put them on the roof of the SUV. Does the camper have a trailer hitch in the back?
There are several options.
It is possible to use a hitch rack for your bikes and use an extended reciever to tow a pop-up, but it will put more weight on your hitch.
You can probably get a rack that would mount to the back of the pop-up, but that might put too much weight on the back of the pop-up, making the tongue weight too light.
The best thing to do is to put some bars (like for a roof mounted bike rack) on the top of the pop-up and carry the bikes on top of it. That would put the extra weight of the bikes directly over the wheels of the trailer. Just make sure the pop-up that you get is strong enough to accomodate packing stuff on top of it.
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