Bike Racks

Lifting bikes up onto a vehicle's rear rack can be difficult, especially if they're heavy electric mountain bikes or even motorbikes. The Bike eRack is designed to make the job easier, as it uses a motor to lift the bikes.

While car-top bike racks are quite popular, they do leave bikes vulnerable to collisions with overhanging obstacles such as garage doors. The KTOP Bike Rack addresses that problem by carrying the bicycle horizontally.

We've seen a car-top bike rack that uses electric suction cups before, and we've also seen a rack that carries the bike upside-down. Fovno's new ES-H1B, however, combines both features in one unusual product.

Designed to seek out remote trailheads, the new Outside Tails camper van is a venture-anywhere mountain bike support vehicle and base camp. It comes optimized to work as a mobile mechanic's station, off-grid power plant and cozy mountain cabin.

Front racks certainly are handy for carrying gear on your bike, but you might not necessarily want one on there all the time. The Jack rack, however, is designed to quickly mount on and come off of almost any bicycle.

Yakima gets more out of the vehicle hitch with the EXO system. Adventurers can mix and match bike racks, cargo boxes, ski racks and other components into a two-story stack behind the tailgate. It's the most versatile cargo solution the hitch has seen.

The new Land Rover Defender 110 is one of the best vehicles for venturing outdoors with loads of sports gear. Front Runner makes it easier with a modular roof rack that has dozens of mounts for bolting all kinds of gear to the Defender roof.

Rear racks are certainly handy for carrying cargo on your bike, but they're not always long enough, wide enough, or just handy enough. The PedalPorteur was created to address those shortcomings, with a transformable design.

​If you run a bike-share co-op that extolls the virtues of a car-free lifestyle, then you might feel like a bit of a hypocrite on the odd occasion that you have to use a car or truck to transport multiple bikes. Well, the Exozox is here to help, as it lets you tow a couple of bikes behind your own.

​We've seen suction-cup car-top bicycle carriers before, although you've gotta wonder if users would constantly be worrying about them coming unstuck. Albike's Wox offers a solution, in that it incorporates a motorized vacuum pump, and it wirelessly notifies users if the seal breaks.

​Rear racks and panniers are handy for carrying stuff on bikes, although so are frame-mounted cargo boxes. Otek Bicycles' sleek aluminum/ABS Aerocarrier combines a box with a rack, that can also accept third-party panniers.

Simpler and more affordable than a camper van or trailer, the Roofnest Sandpiper is a viable alternative, turning an Outback or 4Runner into a gear-hauling mini-RV. A roof-top tent with factory-mounted roof rails, the Sandpiper offers flexibility in carrying shelter and gear deep into the wild.