Rich,
I have a very long GRR, and found 2 choices to transport it with a hitch with the bike in a vertical
(front fork up and angled forward) orientation.
The first way is with
http://www.badgerrack.com.
Their's is very simple, but elegant. Five well-constructed pieces that easily come apart, and
reassemble very easily in less than a minute. The front fork of your bike (front wheel removed :>)
is held way up in the air by means of a quick release (QR) on the carrier.
Pros: less than $300.00, disassembles/reassembles in less than a minute into 5 pieces if you have a
storage problem. It is very well- constructed. Excellent customer service.
Cons: It is tricky to lift the bike up and then to support it while getting the front fork into the
QR, and then closeing the QR while holding the bike in the air.
Solution to this problem: buy/make (with a few scraps of wood) a simple small stool to support the
back wheel while freeing your one hand to work on the QR. The stool must be EXACTLY the correct
height. If too LOW you will still be lifting/supporting your bike while closing the QR (I won't get
into the annoyance of lawyer lugs which make for more work in closing the QR). If too HIGH, your
fork will be above the QR. If you are going to make this small stool, give it a little extra length
in the forward/back dimension so that as you move the supported rear wheel forward and back, the
front fork will move up and down for the perfect fit into the QR.
I have not actually gotten the stool yet (I will soon take an easy rear-wheel height measurement);
but will when the weather warms in frigid Minneapolis. I believe that it will be an easy solution.
Second vendor: draftmaster.com
I don't know much about this one, but it has been called the Cadillac of carriers. It may cost about
twice as much, and is much larger, and probably does not disassemble quickly into small pieces for
easy storage. However, I think that it does have some mechanism for easy lifting of the front fork
into the air, thus its larger size, and higher price. Users seem very happy with it. I think that
you might be limited to a 2- inch hitch with this baby.
Hope that this will give you some ideas to start with.
Happy biking. Hope that you are in a warm climate.
Sonny Taylor
> > I'm having a reciever hitch put on my car this week and I'm wondering which carrier is best for
> > a LWB.
> >
> > btw, anyone else notice this ng being sluggish in d/loading headers and msg's? Other ng's don't
> > seem to have this problem. I'm on a Direcway 2-way satellite system, btw.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > rich
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