Miss you are one smart cookie and you just saved me over $100 from buying a commercially made ramp just for this purpose, from Ontario, Canada, thank you.
Which commercially made ramp was available to you? And was it just for your bike rack? I would like to make this ramp but want to see whatever is available.
I have been having such a hard time even wording my search to where I can come up with something practical. After having shoulder surgery I'm extremely limited on the type of exercise I can do and lifting my bicycle was not on the list! Thank you so much for this video
Thank you Deidre! I love how you stayed with the K.I.S.S. principle! This is American ingenuity at its best! I'm so tired of seeing ad after ad and video after video showing young, fit men and women lifting their light bikes onto their carriers and then proclaim, "See how easy that is?" They never show an older person or a person with a bad back lifting their ebikes onto these types of bike carriers. What you showed is what is really needed in the market place. I have written to several bike rack companies about simplifying their designs so older people like me can get their ebikes onto the carriers. The emails all came back with ZERO interest in doing that! *
Right on! Aging boomers are a huge demographic group with dollars to spend. The bike rack industry needs to get with the program here! The age wave is upon us and those who market to this group will be kings and queens.
Deidre, This also works great for lifting my ebike onto a dual hitch that tows my car and bike rack on our motorhome. I just knew that bike was going to take me out and not riding it, till I found this video. For fatter tires just get a larger diameter pipe, also the tire guide on my rack is easy removed and replaced once bike is loaded, so that is what I did. Thanks for the tip, also great job presenting, using easy to find parts, and cheap!
Your idea worked beautifully. I modified your design a little by using 3 " dia. pvc, and placing the center t-section on top of the hitch tube, so I could run the pvc the full length of the rack. I also made my ramp a little different. Maybe I should post some pics. The whole rack fit perfectly into the hitch on the van. Thanks for your idea. I will use it to transport an electric bike to the bike trails.
Thanks, Diedre! You really explained your modifications well! My husband and I just got electric bikes, so will want to do something like you did. We already have a different hitch rack, so, hopefully, we’ll be able to figure out how to make a ramp for it.
I am so impressed both with your idea as well as your video/instructional skills! I just bought an e-bike and I need to come up with a way to get it onto my hitch-mounted bike rack, so you've given me food for thought!
Thank you Deidre, this video is awesome and relevant! I have a ecells super monarch and cannot pick it up. So I had been trying to find a solution : yours is great!! Thanks again,
Deidre- Very cool. I bought an E-bike (over 50lbs) and had the same issue. Hard to lift onto my rack with 2 tire trays (in the shape of hoops). Went to the hardware store and purchased one of those plastic molded ramps that mount at the bottom of your gutter spouts and mounted conduit hooks on the end of it which simply clip onto the hoops. The E-bike can now simply be pushed up the ramp and placed into the trays with very little exertion. Brainstorming indeed similar to your great idea. Love the 2" PVC. That would work great on my rack as well in the middle section. Not worth all those trips to the Chiropractor without it! Thanks for sharing!
Bob A I hope you get notified of this. I can’t picture what you are using. Can you attach a picture? Or make a video and let me know the title. I am researching my e bike still but will order soon.
This is awesome. I’ve got a 60 lb fat tire ebike and I’m going to try this with 4” pipe and see if I can’t figure a way to get it to work with my hitch rack. Thank you!
Awesome video, Deidre! I just bought an electric bike and wondered how my wife was going to load it on the rack without me. You've solved that problem! I noticed the NCSU engineering sticker on your car. Chalk one up for the ingenuity of State engineers!
Ingenious. What a great solution to a problem many of us have. My bike has tires that are 20" by 2.125". You used 2 inch PVC. Wondering what size your tires are. Can find 4 inch PVC but am not sure the 2 inch will work. Just may be a tad tight. Thank you for solving my problem and thanks for your greatt demonstration.
Awesome video, but be very careful about buying cheap bike racks for an ebike. When looking at a rack you must look at the specifications and make sure that the rack is designed to hold heavy bikes. My e mountain bike is 47 lbs and my bike rack is NOT designed to carry that much weight. You you need to make sure your rack is designed to hold a heavier bike before you purchase it.
Fantastic & creative solution! I need just the ramp portion to get my bike up. The rack I have already has the 'tray' to hold the bike. However I cannot remove the part that holds the tire as that's an integral part of the way my rack works (1Up USA 'Quik Rack'). I'll have to think about how to use this solution on my rack.
WOOOOOOOW! THANK YOU SO MUCH! And you explained everything so thoroughly!! My problem is that I don't have a car but where I live in an apartment complex there's 8 carpeted steps that I have to bring my bike up and down and I can't carry anything over 15-20 lbs bec of my back as a senior person. I need to make something lightweight and portable like this bike ramp to fit the length of 8 steps. I REEEEEEEALLY miss riding a bike and I'm looking to also buy a new lightweight bike (there's a shortage of inventory in a lot of Philly bike shops). BUT BEFORE I BUY ANY BIKE I NEED TO MAKE A BIKE RAMP THE LENGTH OF 8 CARPETED STEPS! ADVICE PLEASE!!! Tx
Hello… My husband is getting ready to build me the same ramp for the back of my 2012 Honda pilot. I am wondering if you can tell me if the bike rack interferes with the back up camera on a Honda pilot?
The bike rack in your Amazon link shows the "center bar" is on the "underneath" side and yours is on the "top" side. Are you sure this is the bike rack you used???
Thank you so very much for this wonderful informative video instruction. Now, my problem is over. I will go to home depot & buy what I need for this project. You see, I have been searching online for a loading ramp for my Rockymount bike carrier but non is available & I refused to spend $700.00 for a Thule bike carrier that comes with a removable ramp. THANKS !
Jenn- I know the Thule is way overpriced indeed. Many racks out there for a fraction that you can do simple mods from your local hardware store. Sometime a lot of gimmicks out there. Good Luck!
@@RickyG225 I bought an over-priced rack with ramp and I'm still in trouble! The ramp doesn't fit the size tire that it claims to fit, it's too narrow. Thanks to this video, I may be able to work around it, not sure yet.
Deirdre.. delighted to find your video as I struggled to put my bike on a borrowed back rack.. hard to lift!. Your bike rack is no longer available can you suggest another model that could be adapted? Many thanks for your video.
I recently purchased a tricycle. I am older and cannot lift it to put onto a bike rack that works on a sedan. Do you recommend this set up for a sedan? I hope to be able to create the ramp and get an opportunity to bike outside of my community by being able to travel to parks and other scenic routes. tricycle an
I really like your ramp idea. I've been thinking about doing the same thing. The rack you are using, however, doesn't look that sturdy for carrying a bike safely. I'll use your idea, but I need a beefier rack for an ebike. Thanks for the idea.
You mentioned a link to the $60 bike rack which you have modified. What is the manufacturer,or the link, to which you referred? Thanks for the reply, all the best…
Nice, but I would use something besides the PVC pipe for the tire channels. PVC being in the outside weather for a year or so has a tendency to crack. Maybe aluminum channeling might be better. It's not round but it still will accept a tire.and last forever.
@@FairElectionsWI A few months ago I Googled "aluminum channeling" and zI found lots of companies selling them and cutting them to the length you want (I had ordered a 4 foot long, 4" wide one with 1 1/2" sides!).
*Really great **Latest.Bike** trunk mount rack! Works well with my Honda civic & the price is affordable. Would recommend ✔*
Miss you are one smart cookie and you just saved me over $100 from buying a commercially made ramp just for this purpose, from Ontario, Canada, thank you.
Which commercially made ramp was available to you? And was it just for your bike rack? I would like to make this ramp but want to see whatever is available.
I have been having such a hard time even wording my search to where I can come up with something practical. After having shoulder surgery I'm extremely limited on the type of exercise I can do and lifting my bicycle was not on the list! Thank you so much for this video
Thank you Deidre! I love how you stayed with the K.I.S.S. principle! This is American ingenuity at its best!
I'm so tired of seeing ad after ad and video after video showing young, fit men and women lifting their light bikes onto their carriers and then proclaim, "See how easy that is?" They never show an older person or a person with a bad back lifting their ebikes onto these types of bike carriers.
What you showed is what is really needed in the market place. I have written to several bike rack companies about simplifying their designs so older people like me can get their ebikes onto the carriers. The emails all came back with ZERO interest in doing that!
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Right on! Aging boomers are a huge demographic group with dollars to spend. The bike rack industry needs to get with the program here! The age wave is upon us and those who market to this group will be kings and queens.
@@sanitycruz It's not a wave, it's a steadily-increasing proportion of the population who is older. The next generation of oldsters is even bigger.
I have this rack and just bought an E- Bike and I will modify my rack. THANK YOU !!!!!
Deidre, This also works great for lifting my ebike onto a dual hitch that tows my car and bike rack on our motorhome. I just knew that bike was going to take me out and not riding it, till I found this video. For fatter tires just get a larger diameter pipe, also the tire guide on my rack is easy removed and replaced once bike is loaded, so that is what I did. Thanks for the tip, also great job presenting, using easy to find parts, and cheap!
Your idea worked beautifully. I modified your design a little by using 3 " dia. pvc, and placing the center t-section on top of the hitch tube, so I could run the pvc the full length of the rack. I also made my ramp a little different. Maybe I should post some pics. The whole rack fit perfectly into the hitch on the van. Thanks for your idea. I will use it to transport an electric bike to the bike trails.
Truly awesome, Diedre! Thank you so much for taking the time to create this video. What a great solution!
Thanks, Diedre! You really explained your modifications well! My husband and I just got electric bikes, so will want to do something like you did. We already have a different hitch rack, so, hopefully, we’ll be able to figure out how to make a ramp for it.
Deidre, thank you so much for this video. This has been immensely helpful.
I am so impressed both with your idea as well as your video/instructional skills! I just bought an e-bike and I need to come up with a way to get it onto my hitch-mounted bike rack, so you've given me food for thought!
It really is an easy modification and you will be so happy with how easy it is to load your bike!
I loved your video: well narrated and well executed with effective video
This is a really great hack, and it solves a problem for me. (Bad back) Thank you very much for sharing!
Thank you Deidre, this video is awesome and relevant!
I have a ecells super monarch and cannot pick it up. So I had been trying to find a solution : yours is great!!
Thanks again,
This was awesome!!!!
Deidre- Very cool. I bought an E-bike (over 50lbs) and had the same issue. Hard to lift onto my rack with 2 tire trays (in the shape of hoops). Went to the hardware store and purchased one of those plastic molded ramps that mount at the bottom of your gutter spouts and mounted conduit hooks on the end of it which simply clip onto the hoops. The E-bike can now simply be pushed up the ramp and placed into the trays with very little exertion. Brainstorming indeed similar to your great idea. Love the 2" PVC. That would work great on my rack as well in the middle section. Not worth all those trips to the Chiropractor without it! Thanks for sharing!
Bob A I hope you get notified of this. I can’t picture what you are using. Can you attach a picture? Or make a video and let me know the title. I am researching my e bike still but will order soon.
Bob A I would also love to see pictures of what you did. I am a visual learner. Thanks
Great description and demonstration thank you
I can't believe the industry has not been keeping up with issues that relate to carrying the much heavier ebikes.
Very clever! Great, easy 2 understand; mostly very helpful video.
You are awesome. Genius!!!
Awesome modification. Thanks a lot for showing. You’re the best. I will buy now in Amazon and I will follow what you did. Awesome project 👍👍👍🚴🚴🚴
This is awesome. I’ve got a 60 lb fat tire ebike and I’m going to try this with 4” pipe and see if I can’t figure a way to get it to work with my hitch rack. Thank you!
excellent. good ingenuity. something to keep in mind.
Awesome video, Deidre! I just bought an electric bike and wondered how my wife was going to load it on the rack without me. You've solved that problem! I noticed the NCSU engineering sticker on your car. Chalk one up for the ingenuity of State engineers!
Thank you! Yes, I am a graduate of NCSU in Civil Engineering. :)
Thank you!! Yes, we have 4 engineers in our house. :)
Neat little piece of DIY engneering.
Great solution!
Good job 👍
Ingenious. What a great solution to a problem many of us have. My bike has tires that are 20" by 2.125". You used 2 inch PVC. Wondering what size your tires are. Can find 4 inch PVC but am not sure the 2 inch will work. Just may be a tad tight. Thank you for solving my problem and thanks for your greatt demonstration.
Thanks!
Awesome!
Thank you!!
Deidre you are brilliant! I copied what you did and it worked!! Too bad i could not post the pictures but I love it!! ty ty!
You are welcome!!
When you at the end rolled up your bike on the ramp. I saw that the front tire went in nicely but what about the back tire. ?
Well done, and thank you for sharing. Oh, and Go, Wolfpack!
:) We are a family of 4 engineers from NC State.
@@deidre-restlessmind4305 Runs in the family, eh? :) My father went to NC State, and I live not far from Raleigh. Thanks again for the video!
Thank you.
Awesome video, but be very careful about buying cheap bike racks for an ebike. When looking at a rack you must look at the specifications and make sure that the rack is designed to hold heavy bikes. My e mountain bike is 47 lbs and my bike rack is NOT designed to carry that much weight. You you need to make sure your rack is designed to hold a heavier bike before you purchase it.
Fantastic & creative solution! I need just the ramp portion to get my bike up. The rack I have already has the 'tray' to hold the bike. However I cannot remove the part that holds the tire as that's an integral part of the way my rack works (1Up USA 'Quik Rack'). I'll have to think about how to use this solution on my rack.
photo--Contact 1 Up C/S. They may have a solution. Great company!
Yes, this!!!
WOOOOOOOW! THANK YOU SO MUCH! And you explained everything so thoroughly!! My problem is that I don't have a car but where I live in an apartment complex there's 8 carpeted steps that I have to bring my bike up and down and I can't carry anything over 15-20 lbs bec of my back as a senior person. I need to make something lightweight and portable like this bike ramp to fit the length of 8 steps. I REEEEEEEALLY miss riding a bike and I'm looking to also buy a new lightweight bike (there's a shortage of inventory in a lot of Philly bike shops). BUT BEFORE I BUY ANY BIKE I NEED TO MAKE A BIKE RAMP THE LENGTH OF 8 CARPETED STEPS! ADVICE PLEASE!!! Tx
How did you attach the 4 foot section of pvc to the stabilizing metal piece? (I can't remember what it's called)
What size self tapping screws? And can I use self drilling screws?
Hello… My husband is getting ready to build me the same ramp for the back of my 2012 Honda pilot. I am wondering if you can tell me if the bike rack interferes with the back up camera on a Honda pilot?
The bike rack in your Amazon link shows the "center bar" is on the "underneath" side and yours is on the "top" side. Are you sure this is the bike rack you used???
Deidre could I buy a ramp from you? I would only need the 4’ section
Thank you so very much for this wonderful informative video instruction. Now, my problem is over. I will go to home depot & buy what I need for this project. You see, I have been searching online for a loading ramp for my Rockymount bike carrier but non is available & I refused to spend $700.00 for a Thule bike carrier that comes with a removable ramp. THANKS !
Jennifer Snyde
Jennifer- Did you ever manage to build the ramp for the Rockymount and if so, would you be willing to share
Jenn- I know the Thule is way overpriced indeed. Many racks out there for a fraction that you can do simple mods from your local hardware store. Sometime a lot of gimmicks out there. Good Luck!
@@RickyG225 I bought an over-priced rack with ramp and I'm still in trouble! The ramp doesn't fit the size tire that it claims to fit, it's too narrow. Thanks to this video, I may be able to work around it, not sure yet.
Deirdre.. delighted to find your video as I struggled to put my bike on a borrowed back rack.. hard to lift!. Your bike rack is no longer available can you suggest another model that could be adapted? Many thanks for your video.
Can not find the wide wide shelf standard any where, Anybody help me?
So how do you address the obscuring of your license plate? Illegal for EzPass, and Possible local Police problem as well.
I recently purchased a tricycle. I am older and cannot lift it to put onto a bike rack that works on a sedan. Do you recommend this set up for a sedan? I hope to be able to create the ramp and get an opportunity to bike outside of my community by being able to travel to parks and other scenic routes.
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This is great! But how long are the self-tapping screw you use, and how to you secure them after drilling?
Self tapping screws don't need more security. The threads hold like any other screw. Not sure the size, but just enough to go thru the thickness.
What electric bike do you have that's 30 lbs
I really like your ramp idea. I've been thinking about doing the same thing. The rack you are using, however, doesn't look that sturdy for carrying a bike safely. I'll use your idea, but I need a beefier rack for an ebike. Thanks for the idea.
The rack carries two regular bikes very well. Not sure about eBikes.
@@deidre-restlessmind4305 What about 1 ebike that weights 55 pounds without the battery?
You mentioned a link to the $60 bike rack which you have modified. What is the manufacturer,or the link, to which you referred? Thanks for the reply, all the best…
The link is in the notes. amzn.to/2Oum6Zd Currently $47.
Amazon has it for $85?
Brand name?
that T piece isn't the same as you showed out of the package. Looks like you welded stronger sides that bent down to hug the rack.
You are so cute, i have the same bike rack, thank you.
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I can't find the bike rack on line, that you have modified. Please supply a Brand & style #. Your http link does not find it.
The link worked for me. $69.94.
Does your rack fold up out of the way? I can't find that info
No, it doesn't. I remove it from the hitch after using it.
Nice, but I would use something besides the PVC pipe for the tire channels. PVC being in the outside weather for a year or so has a tendency to crack. Maybe aluminum channeling might be better. It's not round but it still will accept a tire.and last forever.
Good idea. I take my bike rack off after each use and it sits in the garage.
An aluminum channel sounds good, but I cannot find one that is 2 to 3 inches wide, at either Home Depot or Lowes. Did you find one?
@@FairElectionsWI A few months ago I Googled "aluminum channeling" and zI found lots of companies selling them and cutting them to the length you want (I had ordered a 4 foot long, 4" wide one with 1 1/2" sides!).
U THINK THAT COULD HANDLE A 70 LBS BIKE?
Great solution!