What is Weight Capacity of Saris Door County Bike Rack with Electric Lift
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Bought a Hollywood bike rack i believe from you a while back for our two Rad ebikes. It is mounted to our Ford F150. Even with a ramp it is now getting more difficult to load them at our age, 74 and 75. we are now looking at the Saris motorized rack. Some Rad bikes may weigh the amount you indicated was to much however ours are just regular street type step thrus and the specs according to our manels is 65 pounds with battery. battery weighs about 5-6 pounds. Just dont want you to possibly discourage all Rad owners from considering this rack. Next how about an actual video of mounting this to an F150 pointing out the couple of extra things you may have to do to get it to operate like having foot on brake or putting truck in and out of park first? just some things i have read. might be different for different years. F150s are very popular these days! LOL hoping to order a saris soon. Thanks
asked by: Ken T
Expert Reply:
The weight capacity for the Saris Door County Bike Rack for 2 Electric Bikes # SAR42RR is 60 lbs per bike so to use this with your Rad bikes that are 65 lbs you would want to take out the battery like you mentioned.
The newer Ford F-150s are pretty odd to get the 12 volt circuit active on the 7-way like what this bike rack needs to activate. One solution would be to bypass all of that by running a length of 10 gauge wire like part # 10-1-1 from the battery positive post to the 1:00 pin of the 7-way.
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Saris Door County Bike Rack for 2 Electric Bikes - Electric Lift - 2" Hitches - Frame Mount
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