Originally Posted by unterhausen

I was thinking about going to a welding shop. It's not too difficult to get the parts made, but the parts are thicker than I can weld. The company that makes the ecohitch is essentially a welding shop, the picture of their building on their website looks like a small garage.

The kuat nv2 extends way back behind the car, so there is some possibility of scraping. A converter makes it worse. If it weren't for the anti-rattle system, I would cut it down to put the bikes closer to the car. I have no idea why it sticks out so far.

My experience with 1 1/4" racks probably is biased by the fact that the ones I have used were much cheaper. But Kuat agrees with me to some extent, they don't allow 3 or 4 bikes on a 1 1/4" rack.