We'd really love to take our ebikes with us camping this summer but can't think of a good way to haul them with a RV trailer already attached to the hitch. They are about 50 lbs apiece. Anyone have any good solutions for this type of problem?
Even if you take the batteries out of the bikes during transport you are still looking at about 90lbs of bikes plus the weight of the rack, which will have to be fairly substantial to support that kind of load. Adding that weight to the tongue area on any RV that an X can pull is going to very likely put you over the hitch rating. Putting a rack plus bikes at the rear of the RV is going to mean having to add more weight at the tongue to compensate.
That said, a few months ago at a campground in Whistler BC I came across a
Safari Condo Alto F2114 owner who had two e-bikes on a Thule rack that can handle the weight, using a custom made support for the rack attached on the tongue just above his battery. He was towing with some kind of medium sized ICE SUV, can’t recall the make. That trailer has a dry weight of 2,356lbs/1,069kg. Safari Condo does not provide tongue weights on their
Specifications page. Safari Condo also makes other trailer sizes, smaller and larger. They are very lightweight for their size and very high quality.
