20 Best Bike Rack For Pickup Truck (2023 Updated)

The bike rod is too short for my Sport bed “C” channel. It works fine for the front wheel (forks). It is too short when hooked to the bicycle seat rod. I can extend the bike rod far enough to keep the pedals from scrapping the side of the bed; however when I do so, the bike rod only engages about 3/4 of an inch of the molded threads in the plastic cap.

Over a period of time these molded threads will fail and there will be minimal support for the bike. Manufacturer has no solution.

This device was easy to install and holds the bikes securely. I have a Toyota Tacoma with C-channel and these went on and off easily. When I made my purchase I called on a Sunday evening not expecting to reach anyone.

A person gentleman answered and knew a lot about the racks and was very helpful. I would strongly recommend.

I was looking for something quick and easy that wouldn’t need me to take the front wheel off my bike when I haul it around. After some research, I came across these bike racks. Out of the box, they don’t look like much and I was weary about how well they would work.

Installation only takes about 2 minutes and locks securely into place. Once the bike is in place, the rack does a great job keeping the bike secure. I transported by bike through some heavy winds the first couple uses, and the bike was solid as a rock as it didn’t move at all.

Unloading is extremely simple and literally takes about 30 seconds to be up and running. I was surprised and extremely pleased by the quality and ease of use. A great purchase and highly recommended.

I went ahead and bought two.

I was looking for a rack for my pickup bed that would be secure and also allow me to leave the front wheel on the bike during transport. The INNO Velo Gripper certainly meets those requirements. In my opinion, it was quite pricey (about $70) for a couple of small brackets, but that seems to be the going price and AutoAnything’s price was very competitive with Amazon’s price, but Amazon didn’t offer free shipping which is why I chose AutoAnything.

AutoAnything also had promptly answered some questions I had before ordering about the rack fitting my truck. The rack arrived promptly after I ordered it and I installed it in a matter of minutes with no problem.

I’ve used it a couple of times and the bike fits snugly and securely. My only complaint is that the instructions say to store the rack out of the sun when not in use. My truck sits outside, so I have to remove the rack after each use.

Not a major deal, but a minor bother. Overall, this rack fits my needs and I’m very pleased.

I have a mountain bike- specialized rock hopper/ my wife has a newer leisure bike I guess is the best way to say it and I forgot the brand name but it fits nicely too. The diamondback mountain bike will also fit with adjustments if she ever decides to write that again.

Some people mentioned their bikes wobbled around too much. I do not have this issue at all with either one of our bicycles in the back of my truck. Very secure ride and very happy.

Easy install, holds the bike very securely. I hit some rough roads and rail road tracks–no movement. Leaves room in the bed for other items. Only issue–I have a short bed, so either I turn the wheel–which takes some adjusting, or leave the tail gate down ( but not if my RV trailer is attached).

My suggestion would be longer arm attachments, which would also help clear the wheel well.

The OverHaul HD rack is a solidly built rack. YES, you will also need HD cross bars (they come in 3 lengths) and the features tab DOES indeed state this. I am using the longest available HD bars on my 2010 Tundra.

I can fit two sets of Thule Hullivators and a Thule Dock Glide mount up there. I have zero concerns that the rack system wouldn’t be able to support it. For Toyota and Nissan trucks you will need a bed adapter.

It stinks that it is an extra add on but it is what it is. Be sure to order them together. I can easily dismount the rack and leave the baseplates on during the winter months. I can take off both racks in about 3 minutes.

Hoping to add a rack mounted tent next year. Can’t wait for more adventures. This is the kind of rack that you go to the junkyard to reclaim if you truck gets totaled. It’s built that solid.

The bad: 1. I’m not sure why the call it a “Truck Rack” and have a picture of a truck rack because that’s not what it is. The Cross Bars (not Side Bars) to complete the rack make it much more expensive.

2. The locks are really just to keep honest people honest, to be honest, and I don’t know why they give you two instead of four when you pay SUCH a price for these things. That being said, The Good: They do look really cool, better than most other racks I’ve seen, and I love the black powder coating.

Makes my black Chevy Colorado look awesome and ready for adventures. I also like how quick and easy it is to take the racks on and off the bed if you don’t need them on. (but that also worries me a little) The adjustable height is also really useful; I just wish it was easier to adjust.

This is a departure for me, since the last several years I’ve been using a (very expensive) Yakima hitch-mounted rack to carry my bicycles with my truck. However, this year a new development foiled that plan – I bought a travel trailer, which kinda has priority on the hitch now.

Not wanting to throw my expensive 29’er into the bed of the truck with the ice chests and firewood when we go camping, I set out to find an alternative. This carrier kept coming up in every search that I did.

After deciding to give it a try, I’m happy that I did. My first impression is that it’s heavy – much more solid and substantial feeling than it appears just looking at the pictures. It seems to be well-made.

Already off to a good start. It’s also easy to install, and just cams right into place in the bed. I was worried about the amount of force required, thinking this was a good way to bow the sides of your bed rails out, but it really doesn’t take that much to lock securely into place.

If you set it back about five or six inches from the bulkhead of the bed, it gives you a place to slip your front wheel in for transport. I used some buckle-type hook and loop straps to secure the wheel to the horizontal bar.

For what it’s worth, my install vehicle is a 2016 Ford F-250. I secured the bike to the rack and left it in place for a day while I ran errands all over town, and the bike never budged a bit. This weekend, I’ll have two bikes on it for 6 days as we take the RV up to the northeast part of the state for Memorial Day Weekend.

That will be the litmus test, but I don’t expect any problems at all. (Interesting anecdote: The first time I went to this lake three years ago with my brand-spanking-new $400+ Yakima, the Yakima rack fell apart on the way.

) There’s one recommendation I would make for installation. Swagman supplies some pins that screw into the mounting feet of the carrier for cases where you have a slick drop-in bedliner. I don’t have a bedliner, but the location of the pins is thoughtfully just below the bed rail, so I suggest installing them anyway.

It provides a little extra security – if anything should go wrong, the pins will keep the carrier from getting up and off of the bed rail. And now for an important announcement: The manual says keep your fingers out of the way when you lock down the Swagman bar.

PAY ATTENTION. I got the web of my right thumb in the wrong place as I cammed that bar down, and it bit the holy *&^#%@ out of me. I’ve still got a big blood blister. Just keep your hands where they should be and it will be a happier experience!.

Great product, best bang for your buck! So I’ve used it like 5 times now. It was super easy to install, feels secure and I usually just leave it installed. I just took a trip from AZ to Bryce Canyon, to Yellowstone/Grand Teton, to Mount Rushmore, to Rocky Mountain National Park to Durango and back to AZ.

My bikes stayed secure the whole time, with all of that driving and bouncing on dirt roads I never once had an issue nor worried about my bikes coming loose. Works great in the back of my 2019 Ranger with 5′ bed with a slight angling of the rear bike tires.

I’m sure it will be perfect in any other truck with 5′ bed or longer. Does appear to adjust pretty wide as well. Solid!.

Very sturdy and secure bike rack. this is the second bike rack i buy from Swagman and I have to say they build quality functional racks. I’ve spent more money in the past on the recognized (Yakima, Thule) Racks only to find that the Swagman brand racks are just as good or sometimes better than higher end brands and Swagman is much more affordable.

This Rack i keep behind the seat of my truck ready for install at any moment. I use it on a 2011 Ford F150 short bed and it is perfect for it. the only thing to watch out for and I believe another reviewer mentioned it too is when you unfold it to install make sure you don’t catch your hand or finger on the fold-able hinge cause it will hurt.

other than that this rack is great, you feel like you’re getting a high end rack for a fraction of the cost.

Once retired, I had a yearning to go on road trips to ride in new and scenic places. After 30 years of hoisting bicycles up to a roof rack on my sedan, it was time for a new car and a new approach to bicycle transport.

I took my bicycle car shopping and wouldn’t even go on a test drive if the bicycle didn’t fit in the vehicle. (Note: SUVs with extended moon roofs give up several inches of height in the cargo area. ) After I selected a mid-sized SUV, the next challenge was securing the bicycles inside.

I live in a large, bicycle-savvy city, but the bicycle stores here were unaware of the Saris Traps Triple Track. I am fortunate to have a lot of friends who cycle and it was a friend who pointed the way to Saris.

My friend first put fork mounts on a 2×6 but found that the 2×6 shifted around too much. He discovered the triple track online and has had several years experience with it. Based on his recommendation, I placed my order.

I have now been on two road trips with the triple track and cannot rave about it enough. I show it off to everyone every chance I get. I am thrilled with how easy it is with just a crescent wrench to change the position of the fork mounts.

We usually create a triangle with our bikes, forks apart and rear wheels together. When more luggage space is needed, we put the bikes close together in the center of the cargo space. I did not buy the wheel mounts.

Instead we got Trans It wheel bags at Performance Bicycle. The bags make it easy to tuck the wheels in between the two bikes. The triple track is a brilliant idea and I hope it makes it’s way west soon.

I bought this rack specifically so I could easily lift off my tent and rack between camping trips. Yakima advertises quick removal. Well. after install I tried removing the racks and they won’t come off unless you also loosen up the top bars.

This is a MISS. You basically have to disassemble it to remove it. NOT quick removal like it claims. Otherwise very nice rack, easy assembly, aluminum construction.

The boxes arrived in good shape. The instructions were clear. The installation was a simple one-person effort. The components are of the highest quality. The bottle opener functions perfectly!

Solid mount. Only complaint is you have to have a flat mounting surface for the rack to work correctly. This is a problem for my truck as the bed rail cap has raised section for about 95% of the cap.

There is only one good mounting point and i cannot add another one of these mounts. However i can shake my truck with the forks on my bike when attached definitely a quality product.

Easy to install and holds my bike firmly. Yakima is certainly proud of this mount with it costing $60 but it is well made. When the box arrived it was heavier than I would have expected and all I thought was “what on earth have I ordered” but opened it and was impressed with the mount.

I like it because I didn’t have to drill holes in my new truck. I would buy this product again.

I have been bungeee cording my bikes against the inside of my f350 bed to for years. The bikes shift and rub together sometime falling over as well. I just bought a new truck and i didn’t want it to get scratched up.

This mount from Yakima is a god send! The mount has foam pads that cushion the clamping action on the rail and it has absolutely no negative effect on the plastic bed rail. It is super sturdy and mounts the bike up high showing off the bike (it’s vain to but it’s a nice looking bike).

While in motion and taking turns the bike sits rock solid. If you want to lock the bike just buy a cable lock and lock it to your tie downs. Buy this mount, you won’t be dissapointed!! As a side note, by mounting your bike or bikes sideways in the truck bed you leave 3/4 the rest of the bed open for storage of other items.

bonus!.

At first glance the product looks awesome. But after useing it the bike carrier just can’t hold up to daily use. The thumb knobs to tighten the tire stiru and the arms that go over the bike constantly loosen up leaving your bike flopping.

On the first trip this resulted in the bike flopping and wearing thru the foam that protects the bikes and leaving both bikes scratched up from metal to metal. I have tightened them so tight I broke one thumb screw off and still they come loose.

All this can be fixed by having some welding done on carrier but then it will no longer be adjustable. The tire stirrups are always sagging down and loose and over all after 15-20 miles down the rd your bike looks sloppy on the rack.

I have not contacted anyone from the company about these issues yet but hope to at least get a new thumbscrew to replace the one that I broke. It is reasonably priced and folds up great but other than that not much good to say about it.

My wife & I purchased two E-Bikes for our 37th Anniversary; then we began our search for a 2-Bike rack. It was then that we realized our bikes were just over 55lbs each & should have a more substantial rack than the standard bike racks that Ive looked at.

Wow! Did we get STICKER SHOCK! To purchase a Bike rack that could handle 150lbs or more are outrageous! Most All of the Name brands that I was familiar with are $600 & up! You literally can spend All you want too for a heavy duty bike rack.

I am so glad we found the Guide Gear Fat Tire 2-Bike Rack. For a fraction of the price it does a great job hauling/ holding securely our e-bikes. We paid just over $200 which included shipping & sales tax since we live in Arkansas.

If I was going to be real picky, I would like for the tire cradles to be slightly narrower; however, it is a Fat Tire Bike rack. Nevertheless, it holds our e-bikes tight. We have used 4-5 times & would highly recommend it.

This bike carrier is designed so it can be assembled as a single bike carrier or a 2 bike carrier. I began with it as a single bike carrier and the square tube plugs directly into the receiver without the extension pieces and all that extra weight.

also, as a single is several inches lower. I’m pulling a trailer so I need a bifurcator in the receiver. The Lower hole is for an extension and the hitch ball and the upper hole is for the bike rack.

I had done this before with the Allen 4 bike carrier. This design supports the wheels rather than hanging the bikes by the frame top tube. with a heavy fat tire , or worse an ebike this is much easier to load the bike on.

Lift the front wheel into its wheel support loop, then lift the back wheel onto it support loop. with the frame hanging design the entire bike weight has to be lifted at once. Also my ebike is a step through, so there is no upper tube to hang it from.

tThis carrier is rated for 200# so that is enough to carry two 70# ebikes with capacity to spare. This carrier is 55% the cost of the Amazon versions and has more weight capacity. The one down side is the plastic topped “wing bolts”.

cannot be tightened enough by hand to secure the wheel support loops in place or the inverted “vee” frame holder. This 71 year old had to put a wrench on to wing to tighten them adequately, and the plastic wing was obviously distressed.

It didn’t break. Might have been better to just leave the hex bolt heads exposed.

I bought this last year instead of a nice expensive one but boy oh boy was that a crucial mistake. Used it once last year and it worked great, had no trouble at all, kept it in the back room till I needed it again.

I use it today, it goes on no problem, bike is nice and secure and I go off riding. I get home and go to take off the bike rack and here’s where the nightmare begins. Instead of a traditional trailer pin through the bike rack, its a bolt, lock washer, washer.

This gets threaded through the bike rack out the other side and you put a pin through the end. So I go to remove it and it just spins and spins to the point where it won’t tighten anymore. Thought the threads stripped out so I try to hammer it out and it will not budge.

Now I have to figure out how to get it out without damaging anything. Why, just why, would they design it like this? if they wanted to use a bolt why not just thread it all the way through and put a nut on the end or just use a traditional trailer pin??? If you’re considering this, just don’t.

Or if you really want it, just drill out the threads and use a regular trailer pin. Only other complaint its that its not the most gentle on your bikes, it did damage one of my decals. If they fix the bolt issue I would definitely recommend this but until then STAY AWAY!!!!.

My favorite thing is that the vertical bar easily pivots away from the vehicle so I can open my GMC Canyon pickup tailgate and canopy door with the bike still attached. It’s also lightweight enough for one person to handle.

I had no problem with attaching the bike to the straps; I think that the little cradles are designed to rotate on the bar to accommodate a variety of bike designs. The rack was easy to install with the exception of having to screw in the hitch pin.

That was kind of a pain as you need to lay on the ground and use a wrench, but I think that makes it a bit more secure as a thief would have to have the correct sized wrench and some time to steal it.

But, the hitch was loose even with screwing in the pin tightly on my 2″ receiver (that’s why only 4 stars), which my brother solved for me. I had a locking hitch pin that I wanted to use which doesn’t fit this adapter.

So, my brother drilled out the hole to fit my locking hitch pin & I got rid of the screw-in pin. But the rack was still loose and swayed a little, so now he’s going to add some shims to tighten up the fit.

You could use straps from the rack to your bumper to keep the sway to a minimum, but shimming it up hopefully will solve that problem. All in all, this is a great deal at $39 and I would recommend this bike rack especially for pick up trucks.

We had to haul a granddaughter’s bicycle half way across the county with family travelling that direction but didn’t want to send our nice bike carrier and then wonder when we’d ever get it back. I shopped Amazon, ebay, and the internet and found this one at Harbor Freight for $20 less than everywhere else.

I figured that for the price it might be on the lower quality side. but all it had to do was make one trip, so I bought it. After I assembled it, it was clearly not an el-cheapo model. Granted it’s not your super fancy, pay a fortune, bike carrier, but it was solid and even had a few features I didn’t expect.

Since our daughter was driving a Toyota Sienna I worried that once mounted in the receiver they wouldn’t be able to access the back of the van. Not so. The carrier actually folded down with the bike on it so the back of the vehicle (pickup, sedan, SUV, etc.

) could be accessed. In addition, it had a separator between the two rubber bike rests/straps so two bikes don’t slowly slide together and scratch each other up. Well worth the purchase.

Been using this for a couple months now. It’s a solid high quality pad. We toss four bikes. sonetimes five on it. It fits my 2022 Honda Ridgeline perfectly and the premium backing prevent scratches. A little spendy but as with all Thule products the quality, design and durability add up to an excellent value.

Bought to haul around up to five bikes at one time however this has room for seven. Best use is for mountain bikes however you could use this for road bikes. It securely holds down the bikes with plenty of padding and secure straps.

The straps that this comes with are oversized and meant for burly bikes. Any smaller hard tail or this framed bike will have a hard time being strapped down but does a good job overall.

the bike tie down straps don’t hold bikes well enough. I expected the straps to be snug around the frame but there is enough room to stick my hand in the loop. If getting the rack, you should expect several inches of lateral movement where the frame hits the rack.

Given how close the bikes are, this is enough for them to hit each other on short drives. If you have really chunky tubes on your bikes, it will fit much better. Because this rack has no stabilization at the rear tire, I expect the bikes can shift at the rear during transport.

My guess is that a bit more Velcro on the straps would solve the problem so that bikes with smaller tubes could have the strap tight enough.