Bike rack on a Suburbban

[Les Gilliam]

My wife and I are going on an extended trip this summer in our Airstream and want to take our bikes. Has anyone carried their bikes on a Suburban? Have you any recommendations as to type or method? We stopped at REI today and they have theirs on sale until the 13th. They carry the "THULE" brand.

[j54mark]

Thule and Yakima are as good of racks as are available.

I assume you are talking about a roof rack. Roof mounted bicycles are possibly the only thing driven into awnings, garage doors, and other low obstacles more often than travel trailers.

Mark

[59toaster]

You have a couple of options. I'll be outfitting a Suburban soon and we plan to bring bikes as well. I'm planinng on putting a Wilderness or a Confer roof rack on ours. The bikes is a big reason. The big problem with a burb is the hight makes loading bike on the roof difficult. The bonus with a rack of this style is they can handle somebody standing on them. So one person could stand on the rack and another hand the bikes up.
http://www.wildernessracks.com/off_road_rack.html


Now I also plan to put a receiver on the front of my burb. I have one on the front of my offroad truck and it's great for moving a trailer around in a tight location. The reason I bring this up is you could use a receiver style bike carrier on the front if you had one. Much easier to load then the rook.