Jimny bike rack

I've got a bike rack that clamps onto the towball and then locks on to it and is ultra light. When unclamped it folds up very compact. Will take a pic in the daylight over weekend and post here. It is Italian made, cool design and no need to remove spare wheel.

I like the smiley Diff

I've got a converted Freelander / Disco one -



(Pinched the idea from Richie! )

It's only a matter of redrilling the backing plate so the PCD matches the Suzuki bolt pattern.

So I just have a stub there day-to-day, and just slide the rack on and lock it on with a padlock...

They're on eBay for around £75...

HTH

Dave

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationI just bought this:



But so far I haven't found a sensible way to fit it! Basically its just two prongs. I assume all the jimny spare wheel carriers are the same, but basically mine has 2 studs at the top and one at the bottom, with two holes spare at the bottom. Ideally the bolts for the prongs would go through these holes. Unfortunately there is no way to tighten them at the back as you can't get in with tools with the spare in place.

I emailed the seller and they said just to bolt the progs straight onto the spare wheel and then mount that on the carrier, trapping the bolt heads between the wheel and the carrier. My problem with that is that the wheel would then not be mounted flat against the carrier as there would be gaps where the actual spare wheel studs are. I'm not sure that that would be good for the alloy wheel (it might not matter - I just don't know).

I was thinking of trying to get someone to make up a plate that could go between the spare and the carrier (the studs are long enough) and then the prongs could be bolted to that, sticking through the gaps in the alloy itself. This would mean that I could leave the bike carrier on pretty much all the time. No idea where I'd get that made though :dry:

Here is my bike rack.

Very compact, here it is folded up

Attaches in under a minute

My old downhill racer

Bike on bike carrier

Carrier is padlocked to towball, when bike is mounted the bar has a lock built in
Bike carrier weighs 3.1 kg
Details on Bike Carrier...
Meyster Spa Italy
Art: 18615T01P
Lot Prod: 7485228
Date 09/05/2003
2 bike Max 30 KG

I've had it for 5 years or more, cost $65 and I reckon it is the best thing since sliced bread :woohoo: