Has anyone put a receiver on the front of there truck too except a bike carrier?

 

Are you wanting to carry them up front because you are pulling a fiver?

Bob

 

Yes

 

Ah ha - - I highly recommend considering a kingpin mount. Keeps the bikes up high out of the way and less likely for someone to get sticky fingers, no mess in the front of the truck reducing your turning abilities. Google for kingpin mount bike carrier and see what you find. I know where pictures are for them but you have to be a member of a different forum to see them. I could copy one and email it to you.

 

That is the thing they are up high and would be hard to get down. My truck has a short turning radius so that is not problem.

 

People that have them sure brag about them and complain about their old front end haul rigs. Just a thought. Happy trails.

 

Thanks I thought that I would make a mount that would go between the tow hooks, so if I didn't like it could remove it easy and little $ lost.

 

I have another idea for you. You can buy Reese hitch receivers that clamp onto the rear bumper of your trailer. They are not strong enough to tow anything with, they were built so that you can buy a bike rack/holder that goes into a Reese receiver and ust bolt it onto the rear bumper of your trailer. Cheap and easy peasey.

 

If you don't have a molded plastic bumper like mine. .....

How about a receiver on the back of the fiver with a bike rack made for that in it? Lot's use that but some manufacturers do not want you welding on their frame.

 

You got it molded rear cap no bumper.

 

Ok - I didn't consider that (no bumper). I guess I forget that my 1985 17' 5er with steel box frame spoils me a bit. At 3,500 lbs, empty, it is prolly one of the heaviest 17' 5'ers still on the road but I don't camp in resorts. I usually take it places a trailer has no business going. It is nice to know that at the end of the trip my trailer will still be intact. Not pretty, stylin or modern, but intact none the less.

 

There is always a ladder rack, it holds two bikes. I tried mounting the bikes up front on a past truck but after arriving at my destination the bikes would be covered in bugs which attract wasps even if you cleaned most off. My last three 5vers I've used a rear hitch with jamb nuts to stabilize the bike rack welded to the frame at the rear of the trailer.

 

Well that is one negative for the front mount that I had not thought of (the bugs)

 

Scratch my suggestion of a "ladder rack". The last few weeks I have been reluctant to get a rear hitch installed on my new 5ver because the frame manufacturer said it would "void my warranty" but after spending part of yesterday playing with a ladder mounted bike rack (Horrible, just horrible.) When I come back from this next trip I will be getting a rear hitch installed just for a bike rack.