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When you’re hauling rides for the whole family, space matters. The Curt rack handles up to 5 bikes with a total capacity of 225 lbs, giving every rider a secure spot. Each bike can weigh up to 45 lbs, so even heavier models are covered. It’s a simple way to load up everything from adult frames to kids’ bikes without juggling multiple carriers.
The dual arms taper from 16" near the mast to 10" at the ends, making it easy to mix large and small frames. Adult bikes fit snugly at the wider end while kids’ rides settle naturally into the narrow spacing. Anti-sway cradles stabilize each bike at three points—two straps on the top tube and one on the seat post—to cut down motion and keep paint safe from scuffs.
Need to grab a cooler or duffel after loading up? The rack tilts down (with bikes removed) so you can open the rear without unloading everything. A tethered pull pin and spring-loaded T-handle make it quick—drop the mast, grab what you need, and lock it back in place when you’re ready to roll.
Long trips and bumpy roads can shake a rack loose, but the included threaded hitch pin keeps the connection tight. Just snug it up with a 3/4" wrench for a solid, rattle-free hold. The result is a quieter ride and fewer vibrations where the rack meets the hitch.
A welded rung on the back of the mast gives you a solid anchor point for a cable lock (sold separately), adding theft deterrence when you’re parked. The black powder-coated steel construction resists rust and stands up to years of use. At 43 lbs, the rack feels sturdy without being a burden to handle.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
93% were satisfied with this product
7% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
It has a strong sturdy construction and its easy to attach to hitch. It is also very easy to raise and lower the rack and to lower it for entry into the back of an SUV. It is to crowd for five bikes and you have to be extra cautious when mounting bikes that you don't break spokes or rip cables. The worst part is the plastic rests that the bikes sit on. They have buttons and arms that catch every cable of your bike you mount it or dismount it. Because of the price, I have stuck with it but every time I load I mumble to myself 'I hate this thing" One day I may sell it but I really don't want to sell to somebody something as obnoxious as this is to use. I will probably just trash it when I feel I got my money's worth and buy a better and more user-friendly style of rack.
I have to honest I have not used it yet. But by checking it out closely and mounting it on my truck for how it actually fits, it's as good as I can get for a reasonable price. Would definitely recommend to someone looking for a well built bike rack.
I am lining up with other reviewers on this site who say how remarkable the customer service is. etrailer.com provided exceptional service and assistance to me as I wound my way through researching the options for a bike rack that could accommodate 5 bicycles. Delivery was great, too - within several days, the bike rack was on my doorstep.
There are a couple of more sophisticated options, and I am the person who dislikes purchasing anything twice - I typically run toward the most expensive. However, this rack is not only functional but also well-built, handsome and incredibly well-priced.
Assembly was a breeze, particularly for someone who is disinclined to read instructions. In less than 15 minutes, the rack was sitting pretty on the back of my SUV.
I have yet to load the bicycles and take a trip, but it should easily accommodate our eclectic mix of adult and children's bikes.
Depending on what kind of bike you have and how much space there is in the void between the top tube, down tube and seat tube will determine if this is the bike rake for you. I have an older bike and there is a lot of room but my wife, daughter and son have more modern bikes and there is hardly any room to fit the mounting bars through the bike and if you just mount the bike from the down tube it is not very stable.
Brooke M.
6/22/2023
It sounds like you would benefit from a bike adapter bar like part # MPG2165. This holds your alternative frame bike at the handlebars and seat to create a bar for the bike rack to be able to hold the bike easily.
Josh
6/26/2023
Thank you so much Brooke! I just ordered them, cant wait to try them out!
Rack is performing very well after one year. Extremely sturdy and a very good value. Design is very utilitarian compared to the more expensive ones. The two main bike support tubes narrow a bit too much for my liking at the end. The red reflectors at the end of the support tubes are a nice touch. I have used this on numerous occasions to TRANSPORT five full sized bikes and with the addition of a few straps and bungee‘s extremely confident in stability. Would definitely recommend.
David P.
7/24/2020
Very Good, no changes
It was going to cost $50 to rent bikes for the week in Florida, per bike, that's $150 for the week, which i was going to spend so we could ride bikes for the week. After doing some research, i decided to just buy a rack, and take our own bikes. I got this rack for like $$$. I couldn't be happier. Now i have this rack to take our bikes anywhere we want to go!! We had such a great trip and got to take our own bikes and didn't have to worry about renting some. This rack is very solid and was great for the 15 hour drive each way from Illinois to Florida and back. I only took 3 bikes on this 5 bike rack, but I believe could have easily put on 2 more. I do have 2 more small children that didn't take this trip with us, but will be traveling with me in the future, which is why i got the 5 bike rack. It is really convenient how the kids bikes fit on the narrower part. I purchased the SR0901 locking pin to go with this after researching and finding the review that said it would work. [link]
it worked perfectly and gave me piece of mind my rack was secured.
i also purchased this cable, RKY3850 and just used a lock i had at home to secure the bikes to the rack.
I would say this rack would be better if it had the lock and cable already in it, like some of the more expensive racks. It would also be better if the tilting points were simple handles like some of the more expensive racks. The pin and clips can be a bit of a pain and take some getting used to, but they aren't that hard to work. It would just be more convenient to have handles to tilt the rack to get into the trunk, etc. The convenience of having the handles and built in cable and lock is definitely not worth an extra $150-$200 more in price in my opinion.
There is also a screw handle that you have to tighten up to get the rack solid and not wiggle, you will see on the video reviews. I found that after a few hours of travel, this screw began to wiggle loose, and needed tightened. I simply checked this, and re-tightened every time we stopped for gas. not a huge issue, but i definitely think this is a design flaw. it didn't need re-tightened every time we stopped, but it usually did, about 75% of the time.
Lastly, the kids bikes did not fit on very good, so i had to purchase 2 of these bike adapter bars. I bought them on [site]
All in all, i think i made a very solid and affordable purchase. instead of just throwing away $150 to a rental place, now i have this rack to use anytime we want to go out of town. It is certainly not the most expensive rack and doesn't have all the fancy features that the more expensive ones do, but for me and my family, it is perfect. We are not avid bike riders and won't use it every single weekend. If you are looking for one to use every weekend, you may want a more expensive fancier Thule or such. If you are looking for one that you may use a few times per summer, etc, this is a great choice. The rack is also very solid and feels very nice. It is not flimsy. It certainly doesn't feel cheap. Curt has really made a nice product here. It looks really nice as well. It looks pretty fancy and expensive. If would definitely recommend this Curt bike rack and make this purchase again.
Rack worked very nicely for our 5 adult bikes. It was built very solid and we did not experience any issues on our first long road trip. I would HIGHLY recommend this rack and HIGHLY recommend getting it from etrailer. Quick customer service response and shipping times.
Christian
8/8/2021
The bike rack is still amazing! We use constantly and it only gets easier and easier to use every time. Still highly recommend
Solid product. Actually fitting 5 bikes on is not realistic unless you want to damage the paint/handlebars on the bikes, or you've got some smaller kids bikes. Does not fit women's bikes with angled cross bars, at least not mine. There isn't enough space between the two bars to fit on the rack. I just ended up buying one of those crossbar adapters and it works well with that. I would buy again
Jenny N.
10/14/2021
This bike rack is made for standard bikes. You can stagger the bikes to allow for 5 to fit. The use of bike adapter bars will also help.
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We have a 2007 Toyota Sienna. I haven't installed bikes on the rack yet, but it appears to be of good quality. I like that the arms pivot down, and the rack pivots down so we can get the hatch open. I also like the multiple straps and that the bike holders rotate at different angles for different sized bikes. I also like the reflectors at the end. I don't like that the main arm seems wobbly. There's a plastic sleeve at the bottom to help it fit more tightly, but it still moves, a lot. Maybe after it's fully weighed down with bikes, it will be fine.
Kevin
7/12/2021
After a year, its been working out great as our first bike rack for our 3 boys mountain bikes. Its designed for 5 bikes, but honestly, I dont think 2 more adult bikes would fit on it. Maybe after some reconfiguration. The rack still wobbles at the hitch even when bikes are added. If youre concerned about security, this may not be the rack for you because it doesnt have any built-in locking mechanism. Youll need to use a separate cable lock. All in all, its been a good rack for us.
Good rack. Holds all the bikes without trouble, though some smaller framed bikes take a little more effort to get over the triangular cradles. Those cradles do spin for adjusting the length of the support on the bikes, and slide forward and back to adjust how close bikes are, but they are tough to move. Probably good they are, since you wouldn't want them moving around without your express desire for them to migrate.
4 of 5 because it is a heavy rack, and it has to be to be strong enough to support 5 steel bikes. Be aware. I have found it is good to have a second person involved in mounting in the hitch. I hold it up while a child guides the post into the hole.
More importantly, it wobbles a bit. Just a bit, though. I don't know if some rubber pads could be engineered in the pivot joints, or if that would make it too hard to move and the pads would fall apart anyway.
Would definitely recomend this if you need a strong bike rack, and can lift the weight.
About product: comes as advertised and truly holds 5 bikes. solid quality. has a threaded pin when attaching to the hitch and an extra pin by the joint to reduce wobbling. there's still a bit of swaying, but performed very well on the road. the only disappointment is that no locking mechanism was included to secure the bike rack (minus 1 star). there are 2 points where the rack has to be secured to avoid potential theft. at hitch and at the joint. you'd need a threaded locking pin and a normal locking pin, which gets pricey. i used 2 luggage locks that fit through the pin holes instead.
About service: etrailer delivered this fast and without hiccups. great follow-up service to ensure that i am all set.
Chris
7/31/2021
still holding strong. still very happy.
Needed a 5-bike rack, loved the price of this product. My wife and 3 daughters all have challenging bike frame shapes...it was a struggle the first time figuring out how to get them on. The first 2 bikes that go on are the adult bikes, then the 2 bikerack bars narrow for the last 3 bikes to go on, which is a feature I think is good for kids bikes. I will have to get at least one bike adapter bar to make my wife's bike hang level (due to it's odd frame shape). The triangular mounting pieces on the rack bars are sometimes tricky to get through the corner of a tight, small bike frame, but I was able to get 4 bikes on (haven't tried 5, because my youngest has not learned how to ride yet). The triangular plastic pieces rotate and also slide along the rack bars for even more flexibility of positioning. I like the tilt feature, works great. I like the rubber straps included, they work great. No regrets with this purchase, at this pricepoint it's all and more than I expected as far as quality and ease-of-use.
Jay W.
7/29/2019
Still love it! I got an adapter bar for the wife bike and that makes it much easier to load them all. Worth the investment, which is more affordable than most fancy brands.
Very nice design overall but it is geared to larger framed bikes. The limitation is the plastic mounts that the bike frame sits on. They are fairly tall and prevent smaller framed bikes from sliding past. We ride 20" bmx style bikes and 26" dirt jumpers. We had one 20" bike that wouldn't fit on the rack at all. A work around we use is to install a girls bike bar that goes from the seat post to handle bar on the 20 inchers. Most 20" frames will fit in the first 3 spots but we use the girls bar to get the 20" inch frames to the back two spots. The 26" DJ's will not slide onto the back 2 spots either. Making the mounts that the frame sits on a different/smaller shape really would have helped the smaller frames. Thankfully we are able to make it work with the girls bar and can get 5 bikes on. Another slight draw back is the hitch pin, it's threaded. It works pretty good as long as you don't mind threading on the pin each time you use the rack. Not too much of a bother to me until the pin got misplaced/lost. No where local had a replacement, rendering the bike rack unusable until another could be shipped out.
Aaron
5/16/2022
Wrote the original review after owning the rack for about 1 year. Original comments still apply.
We used this bike rack for at least 2 RV trips. The third trip we took we lost one bike off of the rear most rack. Ended up having to replace this bike rack with one from another store. Would only recommend for local trips only.
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Mike L.
4/10/2026
Let me check on that for you....
After much research, I settled on this Curt bike rack as the only one that could both hold my large, square-framed BikeE recumbent, plus four daughters' standard bikes. It works wonderfully! It can bear the extra weight of my recumbent, plus all four standard bikes (although getting all to fit on is quite a jigsaw puzzle!).
I received the bike rack and was pleased at how easy it was to set up and install. I drove around for a day with it on the truck before loading it up with 4 bikes and heading out for a weeks vacation. I have not tried the tilting feature yet but am pleased so far with this product. Right after my purchase I received a thank you email from George at etrailer.
Works great! We were able to fit 3 adult bikes and 2 kid bikes on the rack without issue. Just have to tilt the bikes differently depending on design but it works!
This product has brought us joy in biking as a family of 6. It can take awhile to get all the bikes loaded but the price was much lower than the Thule brand and to me it’s an ok trade off. Plus we can even open the trunk of the car with all the bikes on if we really need to...with two people.
Best part was the customer service of e-trailer.
We are excited to use our new bike rack. Attached it to our hitch with no problems and was able to get 5 bikes on.
Great customer service from etrailer. We tried ordering this product through three other places and all were on back order and couldn’t get it to us in time for our trip. etrailer guaranteed their product was in stock and even price-matched it for me. I was able to track my product through the entire process from order placement to delivery. Thank you etrailer!
It was obvious that we received a product that was returned by someone else when the box was overly taped shut, a support collar was broken, and most of the pieces were out of their ripped plastic bags. However, it was a great price to hold 5, 26" and/or 27" Trek bikes. I used a piece of the broken collar and went ahead and assembled the rack. Due to the weight of the 5 bikes it did not wobble that much when driving, as one of the bike tires was up against my car. I can only imagine that if we received an untampered product that this review would have been 5 stars. The picture is a little hard to see, but there are 5 Trek bikes on the rack on my 2020 Toyota Seinna.
The rack is sturdy for 3-5 bikes and only for 3-5 uses. The purpose of the screwed in pin (pic attached) is to eliminate rack swing but it got stripped after few bumps on the road and caused the rack to swing front and back. There’s no way I can avoid bumps on the road unless you drive 10 mph on highway. There’s no way a tiny pin can hold 5 bikes weights load including the rack! I’m not the only one that has this issue so this must be a flaw on the rack. So I called Curt manufacturer because it’s still under only ONE year warranty. They did send me a new shank but If your bike rack swings after 3-5 uses, will you use it? I won’t. You might get away to fix the swing by getting a U clamp but …
Very solid product. Well constructed. Doesn't bounce around and rubber bike straps hold bikes in place very well. I'm very confident when using that nothing is going to break or come apart. Comes mostly assembled, so that's nice. Only reason for marking product down comes from the fact that it's a bit overly complicated. Still very manageable, but more complicated than it has to be. Don't expect to keep the rack on your SUV and drive around with it when not bike riding as there are three pins to remove and replace just to tilt it down to open your back hatch. Again, it's easy enough to manage, but just enough of a pain. I showed my wife the three-step procedure and she said "oh heck no!" Plan on packing a pliers with you to more easily pull lynch pins (there are several). Also plan on purchasing a socket wrench with a 3/4" socket to more easily get the main pin screwed on (using a crescent or fixed wrench will take you forever).
Also, there is a really good chance that this bike rack will NOT hold kid bikes 20" and smaller. My middle kids' bike (24") barely fits. Not sure if a smaller bike would fit if you purchased an additional seat stem to handlebar adapter.
This bike rack is for 5 bikes, but have not been able to get 5 bikes on it so far. Most can get on is 4 bikes. from all the reviews of this rack and other brands, it was the longest and also had the highest weight capacity. I think if you have like 2 adult bikes and 3 kids bikes, then 5 is possible. We have bikes, 2 cruisers, and 3 regular all more than 24in size. So we use to carry 4 bikes on it, and need to put 1 in the trunk, in van.
For the rack it self, it is straight forward to assemble and hook up to van hitch. Also got a Curt 2in hitch installed on van from uhaul. The little pin to tighten the vertical portion of the bike rack lost its threading after like 4 - 5 uses and so it is not useful. They need to redesign so that is it firm and there is no play in it. I called etrailer and they said nothing they can do from their side. I will try local hardware for another screw to see if that will help.
The overall order and service from etrailer, was good, i placed order on a Saturday and they also matched another online price and i received my order on Wednesday the following week.
To fold down need to unpin, as compared to some other brands that have a 1 pull handle to perform same operation.
The hitch is solid and very well crafted. Our only issue is some of our bikes don't fit very well over the bars because their frames aren't big enough. Especially the kids bikes.
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Ron M.
7/7/2021
Good product. Little tight for 5 bikes but seems to well made