I saw this idea a while back and seemed like a good solution for me as I wanted a way to carry my mountain bike securely as I tend to have it in my truck often and don’t want it visibly out in the open (I have a full cap over the bed). Built a bracket that attaches to the threaded holes in the bed so I can remove it when I want to use the bed for truck stuff. The Saris rack bolts to the bracket, and I use a Rockymounts fork mount in the Saris rack. Not for everybody, but works for me. Thanks for the idea Komek.For my road/gravel bike, I'm looking into doing something like this:
Instead of drilling directly into the bed to mount it, I'm looking into a few options using molle panels, a deck rail at the bed header, or even finding some sort of L-bracket that could utilize these two holes in the bed to mount the fork mount thing.
It’s pretty strong and stiff like this and I can pull the whole thing it out quickly if I need to and the bed is the same as new. This just seemed simpler than putting holes through my bed mat and truck bed (and having them line up) and there were structural members under the bed that seemed to be perfectly in the way of trying to install the rack in the right place. I actually started on this route and changed to this bracket method as it seemed simpler.
