Starcraft Rear bike rack & spare wheel carrying ?

dosmos

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Hi all, I'm thinking of carrying an extra spare wheel on my factory fitted bike rack on the rear of my 2014 Starcraft OB caravan. Weight will be 29kg. Bike rack should be able to carry up to 60kg. My concern would be that like the bikes, the spare wheel would bounce around on rough roads/tracks. However, I guess if the rack can take up to 60 kg and the spare wheel will be 1/2 that it should be ok?? Thoughts ? Regards DOS
 

Drover

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I don't think it would be okay as the wheel loading would be concentrated not spread out like a set of bikes, when bouncing the stress of the wheel would be more than the actual weight ............................I would use a dedicated rack myself.......... I thought about an extra spare but have never needed to use the one I have and thats over 10 years and 100K km or so........ only one blow out on tug thanks to a cattle grid and while I can repair tyres this was way beyond repair.