Sounds more like a fishing pole, pendulum effect and is creating stress/metal fatigue at the bolt pattern holes. Very interesting that you found it and were able to easily correct it before something happened. It always scares me to see RV’s carrying bikes and gear off the back of their rigs. Lots of stressing going on…
I haven't measured the tongue weight, but I'd guess that with just the bike rack installed, it's not much more than it was coming out of the factory, since I replaced the very heavy lead-acid battery with a LiFePo battery which only weighs 23 lbs. Add to that the weight of the bikes, which isn't too much as one is carbon…
I don't mean to concern anyone, but I think it best to let people know of a potential problem to watch for with the Jack-It bike rack installation on the T@G. We just returned from a 4,300 mile 3-week trip in which we carried our 2 -relatively light- street bikes on the rack. The last couple days of the trip I noticed the…
(“Caution” added to title to draw attention to findings of frame crack 10/20/21. Moderator) When we got our T@G, one of the first things I tried to figure out was how to haul our bikes. I found a lot of articles/blogposts saying don't carry them on the back of a trailer, which was my initial plan. I then thought about…