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Bike Rack
for our Ioniq 5

Mark D Larsen
August 4, 2026

Not long after I installed our Stealth Hitch on Rocinante, my wife bought a new e-bike with 3” fat tires. Our old bike rack was not built to accommodate such tires, nor would it work with the 2” receiver on the new hitch. I found another bike rack for 2” receivers that was designed to carry bike tires of practically any size, but I had never yet had an opportunity to use it. We recently discovered that a different e-bike with thin tires that my wife uses on an indoor trainer would not start, even though its battery was fully charged, so we decided to take it to the dealer to fix the problem. The time had come to use the new bike rack for the first time, as described below.

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The first step was to attach the 2” receiver bar to the Stealth Hitch. This photo shows the hitch looking up from the floor underneath the car. You can see that the hitch has a rubber plug over the hole where you insert the receiver.

You have to use a key to unlock the mechanism in the hitch that secures the receiver inside the hole.

With the mechanism unlocked and the plug removed, I could now insert the receiver.

Here is the receiver ready to slide up into the hole.

I inserted the receiver and it clicked into place so it was now protruding out the back of Rocinante.

This is the new bike rack that I had hung on a wall in our garage.

I carried it over to the car, ready to insert its bar into the receiver.

To secure the rack’s bar in the receiver, I had purchased a locking hitch pin.

I had also purchased an anti-rattle hitch tightener.

Here you can see the hitch tightener securing the rack to the receiver, with the holes lined up to receive the locking pin.

Here the pin is locked through the holes, with rubber o-rings dampening any rattles it might make.

Now the rack was securely mounted, but still in its folded upright position.

The bike rack sports a lever that you pull to lower it to the intended horizontal position.

I pulled the lever and then swung the rack down to the horizontal angle.

The rack also has a middle bar that is shown here folded down and secured with a bronze pin.

I removed the bronze pin and now the pole can swing upwards in the middle of the rack.

I swung it up vertically and re-inserted the bronze pin to hold it securely

You can see that the middle pole has some padded hooks that slide up and down to secure bikes in the front and back of the rack.

I have raised the hook on the back side of the rack.

I then lowered it down, and tightened its clamp securely over the middle frame of my wife’s e-bike.

The last step was to tightly lash velcro straps over both wheels and the rack's wheel holders.

Voilà! We're now ready to haul the e-bike to the dealer.

When looking in Rocinante’s digital rear-view mirror, I could only see the top of the e-bike’s handlebars.

Out of curiosity, I flipped the switch to the non-digital mirror and could then see a bit more of the e-bike —but not much.

Putting the car in reverse, the bike rack and e-bike were clearly visible in the rearview camera on the screen, but when I tried to back up a loud alarm sounded and the emergency brake engaged.

Apparently the proximity sensors on the back of the car assumed that the rack was an obstacle that the car would hit. An instruction to override that safety feature appeared on the screen.

I found the menu in the car’s control panels that sets this safety warning.

It is possible to turn that setting off by selecting the option lower down in the menu to disable it. Oddly, when disabled, the alarm still sounds while backing up, but at least the emergency brake does not engage. Even more oddly, I later learned that the system automatically reverts to the safety setting by default, so you have to disable it manually every time you restart the car. Tsk!

We managed to haul the e-bike to the dealer without any problem and unloaded it. I then raised the rack back up to its vertical position while we drove around town to run more errands. I noticed that, with the rack raised, it wasn’t at all visible in either the digital or the regular rear-view mirrors. Maybe this is why the Hyundai software always defaults to the safety setting to remind you than an empty bike rack is there when trying to back up —like is often the case at DCFC stations.
Later in the afternoon, the dealer called to let us know that the e-bike was fixed and ready to be picked up. We drove there and paid for the repair. I then lowered the rack again and loaded the e-bike to return home. Although mounting a bike rack on a car can be a tedious, cumbersome chore, it is well worth the effort to haul bikes safely if you ever want to ride them in recreational areas with dedicated bike paths —like in Zion National Park. We hope to do so in the near future!

The first step was to attach the 2” receiver bar to the Stealth Hitch. This photo shows the hitch looking up from the floor underneath the car. You can see that the hitch has a rubber plug over the hole where you insert the receiver.	You have to use a key to unlock the mechanism in the hitch that secures the receiver inside the hole.
With the mechanism unlocked and the plug removed, I could now insert the receiver.	Here is the receiver ready to slide up into the hole.
I inserted the receiver and it clicked into place so it was now protruding out the back of Rocinante.	This is the new bike rack that I had hung on a wall in our garage.
I carried it over to the car, ready to insert its bar into the receiver.	To secure the rack’s bar in the receiver, I had purchased a locking hitch pin.
I had also purchased an anti-rattle hitch tightener.	Here you can see the hitch tightener securing the rack to the receiver, with the holes lined up to receive the locking pin.
Here the pin is locked through the holes, with rubber o-rings dampening any rattles it might make.	Now the rack was securely mounted, but still in its folded upright position.
The bike rack sports a lever that you pull to lower it to the intended horizontal position.	I pulled the lever and then swung the rack down to the horizontal angle.
The rack also has a middle bar that is shown here folded down and secured with a bronze pin.	I removed the bronze pin and now the pole can swing upwards in the middle of the rack.
I swung it up vertically and re-inserted the bronze pin to hold it securely	You can see that the middle pole has some padded hooks that slide up and down to secure bikes in the front and back of the rack.
I have raised the hook on the back side of the rack.	I then lowered it down, and tightened its clamp securely over the middle frame of my wife’s e-bike.
The last step was to tightly lash velcro straps over both wheels and the rack's wheel holders.	Voilà! We're now ready to haul the e-bike to the dealer.
When looking in Rocinante’s digital rear-view mirror, I could only see the top of the e-bike’s handlebars.	Out of curiosity, I flipped the switch to the non-digital mirror and could then see a bit more of the e-bike —but not much.
Putting the car in reverse, the bike rack and e-bike were clearly visible in the rearview camera on the screen, but when I tried to back up a loud alarm sounded and the emergency brake engaged.	Apparently the proximity sensors on the back of the car assumed that the rack was an obstacle that the car would hit. An instruction to override that safety feature appeared on the screen.
I found the menu in the car’s control panels that sets this safety warning.	It is possible to turn that setting off by selecting the option lower down in the menu to disable it. Oddly, when disabled, the alarm still sounds while backing up, but at least the emergency brake does not engage. Even more oddly, I later learned that the system automatically reverts to the safety setting by default, so you have to disable it manually every time you restart the car. Tsk!