# Looking for car rack for bikes...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 15, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031 "2002-07-15T10:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031/1 "2002-07-15T10:14:53Z")

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Specs:

1. Fits onto 1-1/2" trailer hitch
2. Can hold aluminum (fat tube) frames.
3. Can be secured to trailer hitch with padlock (I have a friend who’s rack was stolen off her car).
4. Bike can be locked on to carrier (I have several friends that have had bikes stolen off their car carriers).
5. Can hold at least 2 bikes.

Can anyone point me toward anything specific?

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**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031/2 "2002-07-15T12:04:28Z")

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Try [Yakima](http://www.yakima.com) and [Thule](http://www.thule.com) for starters.

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**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031/3 "2002-07-15T13:06:27Z")

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We carry ours on a Thule. My brother got it for his van about 5 years ago. It has held up well and is easy enough so that when just us girls bike ride, we can assemble it and get the bikes on and off pretty easily.

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**Author:** ![Popup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Popup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Popup)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-car-rack-for-bikes/119031/4 "2002-07-15T15:25:12Z")

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I have seen bike racks for cars, but never car racks for bikes…

I have used an early variant of [this](http://www.thule.com/thule/itempg.icl?secid=38&subsecid=27&orderidentifier=ID102674551885967D3C031562D&itmid=692&dirpage=dir2&eflag=0&curitempos=7&numitems=8&lang=eng), which worked great for my purposes.  
(The only problem being when you want to get to the boot…)