Pipeline Bike Rack - Thoroughly Tested and Reviewed

What's the best mobile bike rack for your truck or trailer? Well, Pipeline just may be the answer you're looking for. In this short video, you'll find that this rack is versatile enough to fit into the bed of your truck, obviously, but also mount the floor of a trailer! After spending so much money on solutions that didn't work and after spending hours upon hours researching bike racks, this is the one I choose. And I wasn't disappointed. Let me show you why in this review.
** DISCLAIMER ** This video was not sponsored by Pipeline (but I am an Amazon affiliate - read below). I researched this product myself and paid for its full price with my own money. It just happens that there wasn't much publicity for this rack, so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring to give a good overview of what this thing is and why I'm so happy with my purchase.
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Partial Transcript from "Pipeline Bike Rack - Thoroughly Tested and Reviewed #cyclinglife #biking #mtb #bikerack"
If you’re an avid cyclist, or even just a weekend warrior, you’re going to want to see this.
So what are we looking at here? Well, this is, what I consider to be one of the best bike racks in existence. Stick around and I’ll show you why.
Now, I need to ask you a favor: stay tuned until the end because I have two important questions for you. And your future answers just may change as you watch this review…
If you’re like me, you’ve been through the gamut of bike racks. Too hard to load the bikes, to long to install on the tailgate every time, this thing would be a pain to lift on and off the hitch each time, not to mention find a place to stow it, and this didn’t work very well either. At one point, I even resorted to using this flatbed trailer and just layed the bikes on their sides. And that didn't turn out too well.
I needed something that I could take long distances and that wouldn’t interfere with our travel trailer, yet versatile enough to haul in our adventure trailer. Will this next one fit the bill? Well, let’s take a closer look.
So what we have here is the Pipeline Truck Bed Bike Rack - and this is the full size truck model. But, as you can see, it’s clearly not in the bed of my truck, and that’s because it has a trick up its sleeve.
Instead, we have it mounted in our cargo trailer by way of these optional Surface Mount Conversion Kit brackets.
Just mark out where you want them installed, drill, thread in some hardware from Ace, and we’re done. Oh, I did have to get some of these quick-release pins. These were fitting too tightly, so I had to drill these holes out just a tad. Ah, much better.
Assembly, you say? Well, how hard can that be? If you’re considering buying one, you’re going to want to see this because I’m going to offer some retrospective that will save you some hassle.
This came in a box - a very large and heavy box. And within the box, there is, more boxes. And within those boxes are a million pipes and other fasteners. Now, wait just a moment before you freak out - the instructions do work, but take it slow or you’ll end up attaching and un-attaching and reconfiguring - not that this actually happened to me… twice. Other than that, it’s a breeze! It only took about 2 and a half hours to assemble- …. Well, ok.
You know, assembling this really reminds me of my favorite childhood toys. Have you all seen these before? We’ll do a RUclips Short on these soon.
So there are some challenges. Like this step here!
I would recommend applying some kind of oil or something similar to make this a bit slicker for these rods. The first one went in alright, but the second, well, it was a bit of a wrestle. I ended up rotating the rod while working it through the rest of the cradles. Now make sure you leave these cam locks for the tire cradles loose as we need to come back and figure ...
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