I’m going to give you a great solution to transporting your bikes by using a Curt Bike Rack connected to a Curt Trailer Hitch on the back of your vehicle but first let me tell you my story.

I’m an avid biker, the human powered pedal driven kind.  I have three mountain bikes (no suspension, half suspension and full suspension with disc brakes), two California Cruisers (a three speed and a single speed with wicker baskets and painted in pretty colors) and a Cannondale road bike, red while a blue.  I love to ride around town on all my bikes. 

The road bike takes me farther from home and the mountain bikes get me in the woods.  However sometimes I want to experience other great places to ride that are far enough away that it is not feasible to ride there on one of my bikes.  What I’ve done in the past was to toss my mountain bike in the back of my boyfriend’s pick up.  Then I got my own little pickup with jump seats in the back and tossed my bike back there.  It had a Tonneau cover so I had to roll it up to use it. Kind of annoying.

Then my kids got bigger so I needed a different vehicle.  Time went by. I gained more bikes, (lost the boyfriend), and wanted to use them far away so I opted for an on top of the car bike rack.  At the time I had an Escape, a small SUV.  But not so small that it was at the very edge of my capability to put those bikes up on top of the SUV.  It was worse if the car was parked on any kind of incline or decline or if I was putting my mountain bike up there after a long grueling ride.  I could barely lift it safely.

Then I sold the SUV due to high gas prices and got a very small car, so small that my mountain bike wouldn’t fit inside it without taking the wheels off.  And that was one more thing I didn’t want to do every time I’d ride.  So I decided to look for another solution to my bike rack needs.

This is what I came up with.  You can get a Curt Trailer Hitch and a Curt Bike Rack to that work together making carrying bikes a snap.

1. This kind of rack can carry up to four bikes.
2. It attaches to a trailer hitch on your car so you just slide it over the hitch and lock it with a pin and you’re done. No straps and tension to mess with. It won’t wreck the paint on your car.
3. This Curt bike rack tilts out of the way so you can open your trunk or lift gate easily.
4. The hitch cradle has a rubber coating so it won’t damage your bikes.
5. And the super cool thing about the Curt Bike rack is that you can pick your favorite color.  Yes. The Curt Bike Racks come in ten custom colors so you can match your racing team’s bikes or your car color or just make a statement!  That’s awesome!

If you are a do it yourself type person buy your Curt Trailer Hitch and Curt Bike Rack in Custom Colors online at HitchItYourself.com and they will help you with installation instructions.  Don’t worry about the install.  They will let you know what it takes and if you’re not up to it where to find an installer.