Bike rack in the Peak yesterday

Saw this on the back of a VW van parked in the Peak yesterday. Probably the most sturdy rack I’ve seen

Got home and googled it. I would think that price wise it must belong to some one on here 🤣

https://grooveliner.com/

😲

You could buy a decent bike for that….

That is quite eye wateringly expensive.

Its also heavy enough that I’d not really want to put it on anything other than a two inch receiver or a flange mount.

Wonder if it actually worked with a transporter tailgate.

The world’s first electric loading lifestyle tool

I’ve got nothin’

I’ve often had bikes worth more than my vehicle, not a bike rack though.

“I get just as much as a workout loading my e-rack as I used to from my manual one”

I’d not really want to put it on anything other than a two inch receiver or a flange mount.

I got bored waiting for it to electrically extend in the video on the homepage.  I’m out.

The world’s first electric loading lifestyle tool is now at your fingertips.

Can we do a ‘vomiting smiley’ on this forum yet?

I love a bit of over engineering

Obvs made fi (unobtainium) girders 😉🤣

Obvs made fi (unobtainium) girders

That would explain why it appears to be the same weight regardless of which one you get

And yet still looks like it fails to meet road traffic regs for visibility of lights and the number plate

The world’s first electric loading lifestyle tool

There’s been an electric boat to roof rack loading system in Oz for almost 20 years.

Weight wise that’s actually really not bad. I looked at several models in Oz before getting a hitch mounted one. They’re normally steel and the lightest I found uses an alloy crossbar and is about the same weight as that. Still would be over the towball weight on many vehicles including all Subaru IIRC.

However mine cost about 1/4 of that and the tyres are the only part of the bikes that touch it…plus my 12 year old can load it so really no need for electrical nonsense.

Abigale has one of these out in NZ. Sturdy and a fraction of the cost. Not sure if it would be legal in the UK

They’re similar to what most people have over here now … but for some reason the Yakima rack straps to the forks but only suspension forks, so I ruled it out.

The world’s first electric loading lifestyle tool

I’m sold. The perfect tool for people who are too lazy to pedal a bike can now have them automatically loaded onto their vehicle. Just stop now – you may as well just get a fkn AI powered robot to go riding for you and just watch it back through some VR goggles whilst you’re sat on the sofa

Yay! Free fitting!

Yay! Free fitting!

Actually that’s a good point. I can remove my vertical rack in 5 minutes … that looks a bit more involved.

It’s not a bike rack though, it’s an “electric loading lifestyle tool”!

Can we do a ‘vomiting smiley’ on this forum yet?

🤮

Edit: Obvs too expensive as my work’s internet security/tracking my every move system has blocked access to the website! Either that or it thinks ‘grooveliner’ is inappropriate! Obvs I haven’t started work yet…honest guv 😉

Just seen the attachment mechanism. The pinch bolt into the back of the crank arms looks great. I’m sure carbon cranks will love that.

The lights and number plate are marginal. If the bikes don’t protrude more than 1m behind the lights then it looks likes it’s legal, if you squint.

If you have to put your bikes on the outside of your van you’ve got the wrong sized van

Engineering is terrible – the mounting points are far too close together and one of them is super flexible (the tyre) so it wangs about all over the place as shown in that video.

Also

hot_fiat
Just seen the attachment mechanism. The pinch bolt into the back of the crank arms looks great. I’m sure carbon cranks will love that.

this and

markspark
If you have to put your bikes on the outside of your van you’ve got the wrong sized van

this

I can never get my head around why people have their bikes on the outside of a van.  Surely they’ve bought the wrong vehicle?