Let's Go Aero - 429756 Jack-It Double Bike Carrier System

We have a 33 ft. travel trailer with a 4x4 inch rear bumper. After reading reviews of rear-mount bike racks warping similar bumpers, we decided against them. We purchased this front-mount bike rack and are very pleased that we did. The installation was extremely easy. The quality is exceptional. NOTE: if you have a side-mount hand crank, this will not work for you. As other reviews warned, learning how to mount the bikes in the air was a little tricky the first time. It took two of us and two step-ladders to get the 2 adult bikes up there (facing opposite directions) and adjust the hangers and anti-sway bars. The straps held the bikes very securely. On the 4-hour trip to the RV park, the bikes didn't move at all. The whole rack swayed just a little bit but still felt secure. There's was a sense of comfort being able to see the bikes from inside the truck. Getting them down the first time was also a lesson. By the time we were ready to mount the bikes for the return trip home, we had it down pat and only needed one step ladder (but still two people for now). I am so happy with this purchase and highly recommend Let's Go Aero Jack-It Double Bike Carrier System.

This is the perfect way to transport bikes if you own the NuCamp T@B 400! It would probably also work great for many other campers! This attaches directly to the tongue jack space of your camper. Very easy to install and allows complete access to your jack crank! Keep in mind that this will add probably about 100lbs or so to your tongue weight! The jack 35-40lbs + two bikes 50-80lbs depending on your bike weight. Hope that helps!

Sturdy bicycle carrier that works well. It mounts with the trailer's jack so no drilling/tapping, or other work is needed. However, if one has a power jack, it does block the emergency opening on the top so that if the power jack fails, it would be very difficult to use the manual handle to operate the jack. Otherwise, it is great. The arms can be removed when not needed. I only used it with one bicycle but two would work well. The hardest part is lifting the bicycle up to get it on the arms. If one can't lift easily, a lower carrier would be better. The bicycle(s) travel in an area where they are protected somewhat from road hazards. Since they are visible in one's rear-view mirror, it is easy to keep track of them. I used a cable lock to lock the bicycle on the rack. There is not a specific place to do so, but I was able to do this without much trouble. For what it is and what it does, it is worth the price. It is well built and the powder coat holds up well. This is a quality product and I expect it will hold up well for many years, understanding that the rubber straps might require replacement if left out in the sun too long.

Love this. Very solid. Assembly was easy. Getting the bars on the proper spots to fit bikes the easiest took a little time but luckily you don't have to move those after initial setup.

Not much to say that other reviews haven't covered, but I love this thing. The bikes would take up so much room in the bed of the truck, and then I couldn't cover it. The bumpers on most campers aren't made to support the extra weight of the rack and bikes. I tried that for a while, and the bikes bounced around so much it was ridiculous. It's also not great for your weight distribution. This rack is very sturdy. In addition to tie-downs where you hang the bikes, there are also 2 tie-downs at the bottom to eliminate sway. Yes it puts the bikes up pretty high. I hook the rear wheel first, then swing the front up.

OK. The summary on this thing is that it does what it says it will do with a great deal of difficulty and some risk of trailer damage when loading and unloading bikes. A few issues 1. The official picture included on the Amazon sales page of the bikes on the trailer is fiction. It shows 2 lace loops holding the pedals to the bike mount, and those lace loops are not included or part of the directions. The official picture does not show the lower 'sway pins. that are used solely to keep the bikes from swinging and are not load bearing. 2. The directions are a joke. They are half baked. The directions miss an entire step related to putting the mount together and placing pins and sway pins. In addition, the pictures incorrectly show the pads being spaced so that one pad on a given side is above a sway pin and the other pad is below the sway pin. Both pads will be together on both sides of the mount between the load bearing upper pin and the bottom sway pin. 3. It is extremely difficult for me to load the bike that is closest to the trailer. The bike facing the trailer MUST be lifted over the bike rack (note that the height is well over the height of most SUVs) and very carefully lowered so that the bike wheels catch on the load bearing pin on the trailer side of the rack. If you have any thumb arthritis, any soreness in your rotator cuff, don't bother. This carrier is not for you. Loading the bike that faces the SUV/truck is fairly easy. For one bike, this will hit the mark. Note that the smallest bike that this will carry should have the center of the wheels 31" apart. If they had drilled more holes it would better fit smaller kids bikes. In my opinion, the designers should have included some sort of tilt mechanisms to get the frame tilting away from the trailer to make the loading and unloading of the trailer-side bike easier. If this bike rack was more expensive, I would have rated it 1 star to mean "avoid it". For the price, I think it works OK for 1 bike, and is a fair value as a single-bike rack. And if you happen to be a fairly strong and fit person, it might work for you as a double bike carrier. Three tips: 1. Before you install this on your travel trailer, try sticking your bicycles upside down in your driveway or garage and get a sense of how the rack will work before you start lifting bikes into the sky on your trailer. 2. As someone else here suggested, put a foam cover on the pedal closest to the trailer to avoid damage. It is really hard to avoid the bike touching the trailer when loading and unloading. 3. As someone else here suggested, leave the 'sway pins' as low on the frame as you can before loading the bikes. Or you can just the leave the sway pins off the carrier altogether until the bikes are loaded and then install them. They are easy to take on and off with thumb screws. Finally, the way this thing works is it uses two hooks referred to as "pins" at the top of the carrier to hang your bike from it's wheels. This is similar to the hooks you might buy at a hardware store to keep your bike on the wall of your garage. It then uses two lower hooks referred to as "sway pins" to strap a different part of at least one wheel, which effectively keeps your bike upright and prevents it from swinging away from the carrier as you go down the road. The design in that sense is simple and elegant. Too bad the rest of the design didn't keep to those two themes.

This rack is amazing and works perfectly with our Wolf Pup travel trailer. It mounts solidly, keeps the bikes clear of the front of the trailer, and makes loading and unloading incredibly easy. Once the bikes are strapped in, they stay rock-solid and secure even on long highway trips. If you’re looking for a sturdy, well-designed bike rack for an RV or trailer, the Jack-It is worth every penny.

Really nice. Directions are not good so I recommend YouTube videos.

My girlfriend and I wanted a bike rack for our RV and trust me, there are a myriad of bike racks out there. We liked the idea that we could see the bikes at all times from our rear view mirrors and opted for this product. The installation is straight forward, many videos out there will help you with that. Of course it sits on the tongue of the jack so you have to have the right tool i.e impact drill to do it. Once installed, there were various trials and errors do have the right setup (adjustments of the arms, which holes should we use, which bike should be in front, oh no! My handle bar touches the other bike’s seat etc.) This was by far the most frustrating part as it took us honestly about 3 hours to figure it out. Once we figured it out, we took a photo of our contraption as a reference guide. Now it takes me maybe 1-2 minutes to get them ready and secure. So once it’s done it’s done and it works like a charm! The bike rack is surprisingly sturdy and we really love the option of removing the arms (with the pads and straps) to prevent unnecessary wear and tear. Tip for the installation: Because the bike rack goes in the hole of your RV’s tongue, obviously you have to remove the tongue. Three bolts and you are done. I’ve seen various videos where they put the RV on Jack Stands and I didn’t like that idea. We simply hooked our RV to the truck like we were going camping. Very easy and much more secure than the wobbly jacks.

The Jack it is easy to install. I really like that I can see the bikes when we are travelling and that they are solid, they don’t bounce around at all. Very happy with our purchase and what we paid for it as we found it at specialty stores but for significantly more.

This bike rack is a good solution if you're looking for a way to bring 2 bikes with you but can't mount a rack to the rear bumper due to warranty or weight concerns on those fragile rear RV bumpers. This space over your propane tanks and batteries is typically unused anyway. The bike rack mounts up pretty easily if you have a few tools handy, and an extra jack to support your trailer hitch while you remove the jack from your RV to mount this hitch under. Mounting instructions are straight forward, but the actual mounting of your particular bikes on this rack will be trial and error. This isn't the fault of the manufacturer, but simply that there are so many styles and sizes of bicycles available they cannot provide instructions for every scenario. The fitting comes down to finding the right height for the support arms to hook your bike's wheels in a manner that doesn't damage the brakes or the forks, and prevents the two bikes from rubbing each other. In my case I was mounting two heavy mountain bikes, which ended up taking about an hour (after the time it took to mount the rack) and 3 mount/dismount attempts with slight adjustments of the support arms. This highlighted the main drawback of this rack, being the height that the bikes are mounted at on this rack especially if you have a tall hitch height to begin with. My RV sits very high, with a 24" hitch height, so lifting my heavy bikes up onto this rack is challenging, especially the first couple times. The most difficult is the bike on the trailer side of the rack, getting it up and into place without scratching the trailer front with the handlebars or pedals. I found that NOT using the lower (included) stabilizing arms made the bike mounting a lot easier and didn't affect stability of the bikes in the least once moving. I found the best option for mounting the trailer-side bike was to enlist the help of a second person, lift the whole bike up and behind the bike rack, have the second person assist in maneuvering it into place without scraping the trailer, and as quick as possible stabilize the furthest wheel (front wheel in my case) and hook it on the bike rack hanging arm, while holding the rear wheel relatively low. Then once one wheel is in place it is much easier to lever the second wheel up onto the other hanging arm. The front bike is much easier, and can be done by one person, but hanging one wheel at a time is still recommended. Not using the lower stabilizer bars makes lifting the bikes into place less of an acrobatic maneuver, but means you will need to strap the lower part of the bikes to keep them from bouncing. I did this by running a long-ish flex strap around the bottom of both bike wheels, securing the bikes to each other and inward toward the bike rack, and then running the strap downward to the RV hitch helping to reduce swaying of the entire assembly. I attached one of these straps to each of the front and back wheels of the bikes. I've found on rough roads this setup does sway quite a bit still, but not so much that I'm worried. Construction of the rack appears very good and strong, and finish is nice. The design of the rubber strap retention could be better as I anticipate the strap holes will stretch over time and then not stay in place over the enlarged ends that they have to be stretched over. This is another advantage of using the lower wheel straps as I suggest as this places downward tension on both bikes ensuring that if one of the upper rubber straps failed the bikes would still (hopefully) remain in place on the upper weight bearing arms. Overall this seems to be a very good product with a unique mounting location. And if you eventually reinforce your rear bumper, or buy a different RV, and decide to move the rack to the rear bumper at some point, this company sells accessory parts that will accommodate this change. Or some ingenuity with a few trailer hitch pieces would make this relatively easy as well.

I’ve been looking at this bike rack for a few years now and it did not disappoint. There is plenty of adjustment to set the bikes up. The first time it is a little tricky to get the bikes on the rack. Take the time to adjust it correctly. It will make the use easier. You will avoid damaging the bikes or trailer.

Works really well, well made.