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Shingleback Off Road make some very tidy and
solid racks right here in Australia. I had one of
their Vertical Bike Racks sent up to review, and
from the moment it arrived I knew the team at
Shingleback meant business and this was going
to be one solid bit of kit. As the delivery driver
leant the heavy rack against my door, I was
momentarily stuck inside. After a scene out of
Mission Impossible I was out of the house and
bear hugging the box into the garage ready to
assemble some Aussie engineering brilliance.
The rack does take a little bit of setting up.
Once you open the box lay all your parts out
(you will need about the same amount of space
a car takes up) perhaps also grab your wheelie
bin and lay it on its side, this was a great
tip we found in the instructions to help withassembly. You may have guessed already this
rack is heavy, but with that comes stiffness and
Shingleback make perhaps one of the stiffest
bike racks I have ever used to date – with just
about no scary wobbly bikes seen in the rear
vision mirror.
Your rack (should you follow the instructions)
will be built in 15-20 minutes and ready to
install. Perhaps one of the best reasons to look
at a Shingleback rack is the fact that is takes up
so little space being a vertical style rack. This
means your car is not twice the size it normally
is, or if you’re using a 4X4 you can still get up
a lot of things when doing shuttles even with 5
Downhill Bikes on the the back.
So it’s heavy that means its stiff, right? Well
it is plenty stiff on the highway and around townWORDS: BEN MORRISON PHOTOS: NICK WAYGOODShingleback
Vertical
Bike Rack