Just bought our first caravan and now my hubby wants to take his bike on our trips. Is there a special bike rack you have to buy to go onto the back of the car? we have a old and quite cheap cycle rack that straps onto the back of our Ford Focus but will that be ok when towing our caravan. I don't really want to put it inside the van because of all the mud he collects on the wheels. We don't want a really expensive one after buying our new van but we do want to be safe.
We bought one of the "strappy ones" from Toys R Us for £25. Does the job brilliantly for occasional use. We just use ours for taking the bikes camping.....ideal!
------------- 60% of the time it works everytime...........
i have a high level bike rack, keeps the bike clear of the caravan when we turn, i dont like roof mounting bars, know reason really just personal choice.
roof everytime as it spreads the weight across the car rather than add weight to the nose weight issue. I spent an hour trying to get 4 bikes on the roof last night but after much swapping and changing it worked. If you put them in the caravan I have wrapped in a dust sheet and strapped it to the bars under the front sofa.