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Summary: Bicycle car racks are featured on many SUV and other automobile models, but trunk racks are removable, less expensive options for toting your bike. Compare racks for transporting multiple bikes by car with product tips from a bicycle specialist in this free video on bike transportation.
Travis Martin is manager of the Mad Dog Cycles in Provo, Utah. Mad Dog Cycles has been in business more than 12 years, and Martin has been in the bicycle business for more than 20....read more
"Hi, I'm Travis at Mad Dog Cycles here in Provo, Utah. We're talking about bike racks. For the rear of the vehicle, there's two types really. We have the ones that go in the receiver hitch of your vehicle, such as this one here. You can carry, you know, two bikes, three bikes, four, or five. There's various different types of those racks, or if you don't have a receiver hitch under your bumper, we do have trunk mount racks that actually just hook onto the trunk. Straps hook around the crack of the trunk. And these varies in the type of vehicle you have. And last we have the ones that now, on top of the vehicle, which you've probably seen, which you can carry you know, bicycles, snowboards, skis, cargo boxes, what have you. The benefits of having a receiver hitch rack, which we sell a lot of, if you have an SUV, a minivan, what have you, it's a lot easier to put the bicycles on the back instead of trying to put them on the top of the vehicle and it's less expensive. The benefits of going with a trunk mount, really, is just the expense. It's very affordable and you can two to three bikes on a trunk mount version."