Bike Rack Weight

[Casita Greg]

At 67, I find that lifting a 65 Lb. E-bike up any higher than into the bed of the pickup is about as much as I want to do. Those high mounts made for putting bikes way up in the air are just not gonna work for me anymore.

[Denise T]

Anyone have experience using one of these hitch mounted racks with an ordinary pedal bike, more like 30 lbs?

[John in Santa Cruz]

My 21' Escape has a factory 2" reciever in back, labeled "MAX 150 LBS". my RV rated Swagman Escapee2 bike rack weighs about 30 lbs, my bike weighs 27-30 lbs (depending if its got the rack trunk bag on, and water bottle), my wife's homebrew ebike weighs about 50 lbs without its battery pack, and when I load this, the tongue weight of the fully loaded trailer is barely 400 lbs, which IMHO is too light for a 4500 lb trailer. that said, we towed that combination 3000 miles last spring, California -> Nevada -> Utah -> AZ, and home. But I'm towing with an F250 longbed diesel, thats an incredibly solid and heavy ride, so not much bothers it.