 - Model 103D
- Fits sedans, hatchbacks, minivans, and SUVs
- Single configuration design eliminates headaches during set up and installation
- Patented individual tie-down system secures and protects bicycles
- Lifetime warranty on workmanship and materials
List Price: $134.99
Lowest Price: $77.95 
Product Description: The Allen Deluxe trunk-mount bike carrier holds up to 3 bikes with a construction that's designed to easily install on sedans, hatchbacks, minivans, and SUV's. The patented tie-down system helps keep the bicycles protected. Product Description: This Deluxe Trunk Mounted Bike Carrier by Allen holds up to three bikes and is ideal for weekend biking trips with friends and family. Compatible with sedans, hatchbacks, minivans, and SUVs, this rack features 15-inch long carry arms and a tie-down system to securely holds and protect each bicycle. The rack comes fully assembled, so it can be set up and attached quickly. About Allen Bike Racks
In 1967, after a few years of working on the aerospace technology for the Apollo missions, Dick Allen was out of a job. Government cutbacks led Allen, a Harvard-trained physicist, to transform his garage hobby into a new industry. A cycling enthusiast, inventor, and family man, Allen had a personal need for a bike-carrying device. On weekends, he would take his sons and wife to Cape Cod or the White Mountains of New Hampshire. What proved difficult time and again was the transport of his family’s bicycles. Rather than fight through inconvenience with twine and a dinged car, Allen sought an answer for himself as well as a market in which he foresaw major growth possibilities. Always a pathfinder, Allen took to work in his Lincoln, Massachusetts garage in search of a more efficient way to transport bikes. Drafting designs during the day and constructing them throughout the night, he put together a model made of electrical conduit, metal strapping, and fire hose casings (for padding). At first, the Allens tested the prototype on weekend excursions. Finding the first trunk-mounted rack to be a success, Dick started Allen Bike Racks. Dealer acceptance came quickly, and by 1971 Allen Bike Racks were sold nationally through a number of major bicycle distributors. Today, the company owns over three dozen patents and offers a versatile product line of bike racks while Dick’s son Alex now owns and operates the business. What started out as a small garage run operation now operates three warehouses nationally, two factories abroad, and has products sold in more than a dozen countries around the world.
Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-16
Great bike rack for the price.
PROS: light, easy to set up, versatile (fits a lot of different cars)
CONS: wobbles side to side a little with larger bikes.
This is a great bike rack. Very secure, easy to install and remove, and the saddles to strap the bikes to swivel to adjust for weird frames. Just keep the larger, heavier bikes towards the inside row to minimize wobble.
We have an 08 MINI Cooper and an 08 Nissan Altima; this rack fits great on both. Very well designed with no "scratch your car up" areas. The hooks are rubber-coated, and the contact-the-car points have thick, dense foam to cushion the rack from your paint. Rating: 
Date: 2008-02-17
Excellent product at a great price
I bought it after an extensive search, 5 months ago. No regrets. You install it in a breeze, stays in place even after a week. Although I have not carried more than two bikes yet. Higly recommend it Rating:
Date: 2007-07-28
Great Bike Rack
Just returned from a 400 mile round trip with two bikes on the new rack. It was fantastic. Extremely easy to put on and remove, high quality construction, and very stable with bikes on it. Not one iota of shifting of the bikes in transit. An excellent item in every way...would reccomend it to anyone. Rating:
Date: 2007-07-19
Great rack for the money!
I used the site's drop down list to be sure it would fit my car and it does, nicely. I haven't yet tried carrying more than one bike, and while it appears to be well made and up to the task---it just looks like a tight fit for three bikes. Once fitted to the car, it's an easy on, easy off operation. I like it. Rating: 
Date: 2005-09-05
Damaged my car!
I bought this rack for my hatchback and am very unhappy with it. Set up was a pain the first time, but once you get the hang of it, it would be much easier. The reason I will return this rack immediately is that despite following the set up directions precisely, after driving just 10 miles with it, it put a 2 square inch gash in my trunk. I set it up and put the bike on it, but the bike pedal was rubbing against my car (it could not be rotated enough to lose contact with the car), so I took it off and adjusted the straps for a different angle (angled up away from the street more) and put the bike back on. The pedal could still touch, but it looked fine once I followed the directions to simply, rotate the pedal away from the car if necessary. After I parked and went to take the bike off, though, I was quite annoyed to see that the pedal apparently rotated back into the paint while driving and rubbed the paint off in a 2 square inch area. More of a hole than a scratch. I'm guessing it'll cost me a few hundred dollars to repair. This could have been avoided by putting some padding on the bike pedal, but this being my first bike rack I assumed following the directions would prevent such damage.
I'm so annoyed I felt compelled to review this product, which I've never done before! |
