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Hi there, adventurers. Today, we're going to be taking a look at Stromberg Carlson's Bike Bunk. The Bike Bunk is a two-inch hitch receiver that mounts to the front of your A-frame trailer. This allows you to place your bike rack in it so you can bring your bikes along with you. Your camper is going to go into the receiver on your hitch at the back of your vehicle, so you've got no place to put your bike rack, but now you do, right on your trailer. This is going to be ideal if you want to keep an eye on your bikes because you can mount them in the front of your trailer.Some other options you have is a hitch here at the back of your trailer.

But if you have it at the back, you often can't see your bikes so you don't know if maybe one of them fell off if you didn't have it strapped down properly until you get to your next location. Other issues you might run into is your trailer might be too low to put a receiver here at the back. My popup here, I attempted to put one at the back, but the clearance was just so low. I wasn't able to, so my only option is going to be to have one here in the front.It's unique design that is wide enough and tall enough to go over top of your propane tanks at the front of your trailer. It'll also clear most other things that you might have up here as well.

If you don't have propane tanks, such as a toolbox or battery box. The unique shape of our arms allows you to install it at various locations at the front of your trailer. The arms can pivot inside of your bracket assemblies to allow them to pivot out to get the appropriate cross distance that you'll need for your top bar here.This unique design allows it to be custom fit for your trailer since you can place it further up and down your frame rail, avoiding the objects that are already on your trailer as you see necessary. The only thing you need to keep in mind when doing this is your clearances between your rack and your trailer as well as the clearances between your bike rack and your vehicle at the front. The design of the arms is offset towards the rear to help increase that clearance between your bike rack and your vehicle at the front.It features a two inch by two inch receiver, so to work with any bike rack that uses a two inch receiver that is rated for use with an RV or trailer.

The receiver features a 100 pound tongue weight. Now you want to keep that in mind because the tongue weight is whatever's inside the receiver, so that includes your bike rack plus the bikes loaded on it. A hundred pounds should be more than enough though for a bike rack that can carry two bikes, loaded up with two bikes. If you are planning to bring three or four bikes with you, then you'll want to make sure that you get a bike rack that is going to be low in weight and also that your bikes are low in weight in order to bring those with you.All the hardware you need to get it installed comes included. It clamps onto the frame of your trailer so there's no drilling into your trailer required.

Once you've got everything set up you will need to drill into the arms here since they are adjustable and custom for your specific application, so it is necessary to drill through the arm to install the bolt. Once you've got it set up with the proper clearances. A similar option out there is inaudible 00:02:48 jacket. This is a a frame mounted bike rack that installs in the front here. The difference between the jacket and our Stromberg Carlson here though is how it attaches to your frame.Our Carlson clamps around our frame where the jacket would go underneath your jack at the front of the trailer, usually found here right behind the tongue. Now my trailer doesn't have one here. I've got a side mounted Jack so I don't have a place to put that on my trailer so the jacket's not going to work for me. But the Stromberg Carlson worked out great. One of the thing that I do like about the jacket, however is that the bike rack is integrated into it so you don't have to purchase a separate bike rack to get your bikes up and running. It is limited to only two bikes, but it is rated for 80 pounds total, so yeah, it's 40 pounds per bike so you should be able to put just about any bike on it.I've got some measurements for you now to help you determine the appropriate fit for your trailer. The minimum distance between our brackets here at the bottom where it mounts on our frame is 12 inches, so we can have at least 12 inches bet