It works. The bike tracks behind like a tailer and you can move two bikes at once by lowering one bike by letting out the freeloader straps and tightening them as far up as possible on the other side. This keeps the handlebars from clashing. The trick is to put the sidewinder strap around the outside of the freeloader and wheel. Put the center strap of the freeloader through the spokes and pull tight. Then take a separate strap and wrap it around the fork crown and across to the far h-rack and pull tight. This holds the front wheel pretty steady. I used the extra strap woven under the deck method shown in the manual.

The advantage is no extra weight added to the bike from the rack and you’re only putting part of the towed bike’s weight onto the xtracycle. It’s surprisingly stable once you get moving.

The disadvantage is that the freeloaders wear a lot where the axle bolt hits them and where the fork hits the v-rack. It also could scratch the towed bike’s fork paint. I carried a short piece of pipe insulation to put on the fork for nice bikes. Also if you try and turn really tightly you could flop the towed bike over on its side. This only happened when trying to make a right angle turn at walking speed in a very tight situation.

I moved hundreds of bikes using this method over a year and a half of doing the job.

SWEET Specialized SX too!!!

I can’t really make it out from the picture…where does the fork mount actually mount to? Is there a tube back there?

In any case, all of these bike carrying tricks are fantastic!

Used to do it that way to meet her at the bus stop when she was getting out of work.

Makes for an odd looking but effective arrangement.