Well... Let me just say that these racks take a licking and keep on ticking. My wife and I travel by road quite a bit and our rack has well over 30,000 miles of carrying bikes across the USA and Canada (some of this on back country fire/logging roads). Last year (2025), we were sideswiped from the rear by a gravel carrier in Canada as he attempted to pass us on the left. The truck's rear mudflap caught one of our bike rack's wheel trays. Part of the truck's trailer proceeded to rip the front of our car off as it caught the front left wheel well. (More than $20,000 in damages) Nevertheless, the rack and our bike wheels sustained only minimal scuffs and a slight bending downward of one of the rack's driver side wheel trays. (It wasn't enough for me to replace the part).
This year (2026), on the Blue Ridge Parkway in VA, we had to swerve drastically to avoid hitting a black bear cub that was darting out of the woods from our right. We managed not to hit the cub with the car. However, as we were swerving and braking, the bear cub ran into the right side of our bike rack (mounted behind the car). The good news, the cub then ran off into the woods apparently scared but, with no major injuries. When I stopped to check on things (cub/car/bikes/rack) the only evidence that the cub had bumped into our vehicle/rack was some dirt rubbed off of the rack's wheel tray. I couldn't believe my eyes. No fur/hair, no blood, no damage to the car, bikes, or the bike rack. I can only assume that the cub didn't sustain any major injuries but I'm sure that he was spooked by the event. Hopefully, his mama will teach him to look both ways before darting out into the road again.
Point of this review, these racks are pretty tough if you can handle their weight. They are heavy but they are built heavy duty so keep that in mind. Did I mention that in all of our travels, we have not had any issues of the bike racks failing or almost loosing one of our bikes.
