I've had the thing fitted locally, without parking sensor cut off. The cost of that was about half the price of getting the proper unit from the UK and I've no confidence in UR doing the right thing. I condsidered selling it, but who'd buy it?

Realistically, even if wired correctly, I'd still have a problem reversing with the bike on the bike, which is how it's going to be used on a regular basis.

If reversing a trailer, I'll just have to put up with the warning lights. You may quote that ridiculous statement in a year's time when I'm complaining about it

I've bought stuff from Italy direct, some are good others are less so. I bought a pair of headlight protector grilles for the classic 4x4, only for one side to have more bars fitted than the other. Unfortunately I'd had them in a box for 3 months before fitting so no chance of getting it sorted. I fitted them anyway, six months later I've taken them off as they are just rusting away, complete crap. Do not buy anything from Rizali 4x4 Italy, their lifting kits aren't fit for purpose either.

First day using the carrier.

The bike sits nice and low - plenty of ground clearance for the wheels but you're looking over the top bar which is nice.

Once at your destination, you can either remove the carrier, leaving the gooseneck locked to towbar, or you can remove both.
Pity UR didn't supply a key to lock the towbar - I'll have a chat with a locksmith before following that up. This meant that I'd have to remove both.

To get the gooseneck off, you release and remove a shaft (you can see its handle next to the gooseneck in the first photo), then rotate the gooseneck 90 degrees and pull it out.

Why not remove both at the same time? I thought.
So I did.







I then just put the whole unit in the boot - carrier still attached to the gooseneck. It fits really well.



The beauty of doing it this way is that is saves a lot of dicking about fitting the gooseneck and then fitting the carrier.

The gooseneck removes and remounts easily, the carrier not affecting that at all.

The Thule carrier clips onto the ball very easily. However, there is nothing positioning the carrier, except practice I guess. Leaving it attached allows me to get it 'right' (bike top bar horizontal in my case, I'm a bit OCD that way) without having to guess it everytime I put it back on.

The combined unit fits so neatly (and easily) in the boot I won't have any qualms driving with it there either. If I need more room in the boot, it's a simple matter to remove the carrier and if still more needed, collapse the arms on the carrier (it makes a rather small package).

It's a matter of a minute to remove the gooseneck and carrier combined and pop it in the boot. Considering the car is left parked in public places, the security of having everything inside and out of sight is appreciated.

That looks pretty good.

Just as a test, have you tried putting a piece of tape over the middle sensor when the bike carrier is fitted. It'll probably still bleat, but perhaps because the tape is attached to the sensor it might not register distance as it might do with the bike rack a small distance from the sensor.


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smittict said:

That looks pretty good.

Just as a test, have you tried putting a piece of tape over the middle sensor when the bike carrier is fitted. It'll probably still bleat, but perhaps because the tape is attached to the sensor it might not register distance as it might do with the bike rack a small distance from the sensor.


1.2 - are you mad?

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I'll try that however, when the bike's on the carrier, the wheels hang in front of the outer sensors so I'd have the same problem. Might be a solution for using a trailer though.