Hi , i have a fiat ducato 2017 which has been converted . It has double rear doors and i am looing for a 2 bike carrier . Any suggestions please ?

[Victoria Jordan]

Hi , i have a fiat ducato 2017 which has been converted it has double rear doors and i am looking for a 2 bike carrier . Any suggestions please ? It doesnt have a tow bar.
Many thanks

 

[Guigsy]

The Fiamma carrier that clamps to the rear door does work. It'll happily carry 2 bikes and the door and hinges doesn't seem overly stressed. You can still open the door with bikes on it if you are careful.

Downsides:

• You'll brain yourself every time you slam the door and forget there's a rail poking out at head level.
• It's quite a long way up... I'm a short-arse and needed to use the step to get my heavy mountain bike up there.
• The rail pokes out the hinge side quite a long way. If you forget and press the release to open the doors back beyond 90 degrees, it dents the body. You can undo the bolts and slide the rail away in a bit. But a bike will be cantilevered out further, putting more stress on the hinge and even then, the tyre will probably still contact the paint.
• If you've got a full suspension mountain bike with chonky 2.6" tyres, the tyres don't fit in the rail channel, and worse, modern mountain bikes are so long that it hangs off either end of the rail. Fiamma do sell a longer 'ebike' rail which fits much better.
• The view from your reversing camera is largely blocked by a bike rack.
• You can't open the rear windows very far (if you have them).

Although I drove all over the place with two bikes on it, I'm not sure I'd trust it with more. A pair of ebikes might also be pushing it...

Overall, they are a pretty good solution. But they aren't perfect.

 

[Lenny HB]

BusBiker is very good it bolts to the chassis and swings out of the way of the rear doors not cheap around £1500.

 

[tonka]

Fiamna DJ ?? Something. They certainly do one and allows you to open the door. Used to have one on a panel van conversion.

 

[Victoria Jordan]

Thanks for all your replies , i think im gonna go for the fiamma dj.

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[Howard B]

I have a sliding rack for sake in the classifieds.

 

[mofurt]

I went the other way and fitted a tow bar. A good tow bar cycle rack can be moved between our vehicles, and there's no strain on the doors when using it. I fitted the tow bar myself, the total price for the tow bar and high end Thule rack was roughly equivalent to a Fiamma dedicated bike rack.

The tow bar also allows me to pull a trailer (obviously!) for the motorbikes, so is far more flexible. But a tow bar bike rack is a bit more awkward if you're using the rear doors.