Safe or Danger to Others?

TARider

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I want to use my old hitch mounted bike rack on the wrangler but it doesn't fit with the spare and with just an extension I can't open the tailgate (rack has a swing-away feature).
Found this at Tractor Supply, supposedly you can tow with one end and the other opening is for racks, etc. but it says to use it upright. If I flip it over it allows room for my rack and allows it to open.
The last thing I want to do is have my bikes wind up on the highway taking out a poor unsuspecting cell phone using tailgater, so what says the collective wisdom here? Strong enough to hold the bikes like this or am I asking for a lawsuit?

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For the bike rack - I wouldn't sweat it. Actually I can't think of a reason it would be any more dangerous that way that the other way
 
Portable trampoline mount. You're onto something.
 
Just find out what the listed weight capacity of the rack itself and load accordingly. The adapter you're using won't be the weak link.
 
It's the exact same thing right side up or upside down. It's just a piece of square tubing at a right angle to another tube, and it's welded symmetrically to the other tube, and the only difference is the direction of bending depending on whether it's right side up or upside down, so the weld that is normally in compression is now in tension, etc.. The weight of the rack and the bikes directly downward is pretty small with respect to the amount of bending that the welds see because of that weight.

If it can safely support a bike rack (which is pretty easy to do), it can safely support a bike rack in either direction.
 
Looks sturdier than the rest of the bike rack or for that matter infinitely stronger than one of those that just strap to the trunk of a civic with 2-3 bikes on it. Good to go
 
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