Supernan

Thank you for that, we do have a similar one that we use when not towing our caravan! The issue was with the hanging rack and finding a false crossbar that would bear the weight, I have since found a suitale one!

Yes I agree over the weight and correct loading. However, our caravan is very small but we load it so one bike can be carried inside and one on a flange attached cycle rack. We prefer our small caravan, don't want a large one as we do a lot of touring. Before retirement, my husband was an engineer and part of his job meant he had to be able to drive an articulated vehicle, so has the appropriate licence and, like you, finds reversing and parking is second nature even with articulated vehicles! But even with our small caravan, the weight loading for both caravan and car has to be carefully balanced!

Our caravan is too small to take two bikes, we carry one inside and one on a bike carrier.

Thank you Flecc, I think if we can get one bike really stable on the carrier , we can then look at how we can cope with two! When we are not pulling the caravan, we have a 'proper' platform carrier which easily takes the two bikes. Incidentally we will remove the batteries before carrying as they are so heavy!

Thank you for all your suggestions, when buying the bikes even though we mentioned what we intended to do with them, none of the sales staff ventured an opinion that carrying could be difficult!

I think your suggestion of extra straps to help take the weight from low down is probably the best idea and I will purchase one of the false crossbars from the USA and try with one bike only to see how the bike sits on the carrier.

Hi Andy, the bike carrier we use is a flange carriwr off our tow ball as we also pull a small caravan! The bike carrier is a post with two forks which go off it for tbe bikes to be carried. It will take the weight of the two bikes as max load is 60kg, although for safety we are considering only carrying one bike on rack and the other in caravan. There is no platform for the bikes to rest on. Furthermore they are 'stepthough' bikes so that is why a false crossbar (which is telecsopic) is required.

Yes we do have safety straps to tie them to the car, we always did this with our 'normal' bikes, but it is finding a false cross bar adapter that will take at least 25kg/30kg each is the difficulty. We have found one that can be imported from America, but was hoping somebody on Pedelecs might have overcome this problem already!

Thank you Bluemoon7, unfortunately the ones we have found in Halfords will only take up to 15kg!.

We have purchased 2 Cube Town Hybrid Pro 500 e.bikes which we love, so easy to cycle. Despite the advice they should be carried inside a vehicle (which we hadn't realised when we bought them), we have a small caravan and we carry our cycles on a Witter flange attached tow ball. This will take 60kg in weight so will carry the 2 e.bikes. However finding a suitable false crossbar is a nightmare. We have identified one on Amazon US that might be suitable, but decided to check out this forum to see if anybody else has faced this problem and if there is a solution. Any help would be appreciated.