Here’s another example of why I love this forum:
For six months I’ve been thinking that no way could I haul bicycles on my bike rack with it attached to the rear of our PC and at the same time pull a toad because I thought that I would need to remove the bikes when we had to disconnect the toad before driving around the campsite. Removing the bikes before moving the toad would be too logistically difficult. Barry and Ron have helped me see some other possibilities.
First Barry told me that he can accomplish my desired task with his set-up and then Ron helped me see how I might maneuver the tow bar that was causing the problem in my attempts.
Ron, I had never thought of operating the tow bar in any way other than what I had always done—push the two “arms” together, lift them vertically, then fold them horizontally into the stored position. From the photo you included in your last post, it looks like you usually leave a part of the baseplate attached to the two tow bar arms when you disconnect your toad, and that keeps the arms in a triangle shape. That’s something that I might like to do when I don’t have my bike rack on the PC. But, our bike rack is similar the Barry’s (see his in the first photos in this thread) that has the dual track bars where the bike wheels sit. Those track bars block lifting the tow bar arms up to vertical. Your thoughts here of using a different approach helped me start thinking.
Perhaps instead of lifting the Roadmaster All Terain tow bar arms to vertical when I disconnect the toad, I could just push the arms together and then swing them right or left horizontally to a position under the bike rack track bars. The arms will not lock in that position, so I would need to strap them up to the track bars well enough to be able to drive the PC around in a manner suggested by Ron.
Barry, your photos show a tow bar the looks like a Blue Ox, so maybe that make it easier for you to disconnect your toad and drive the PC away without removing the bikes. Am I right on that? Any comment or suggestion on the possible plan I’ve laid out above?
--Bruce