Anyone attached a bag to the *folded* OEM bike rack?

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Here's my extra storage completed.

I had 2 bags made by bags4everything.

• 1 bag in a "D" shape to sit high up on the tailgate bike rack and clear the bikes on the towbar rack. This is with zipped panels at each end, and eyelets in the back so I could mount it to the rails. This is going to be for light bulky items such as bike helmets and levelling ramps. Or if it is raining when we leave a campsite we can put anything wet in there.
• 2nd bag to sit in between the rear windscreen and the bike rack. This will carry a Burley flatbed bike trailer https://burley.com/en-uk/products/flatbed in space that is otherwise unused.

Pics of the 1st bag and the mounting - it is empty.




Pics with a shower tent in the 1st bag and the 2nd bag in position. This pic makes it look a little unwieldy but that's just because it is a closeup. I'll take a photo from further away if anyone is interested. I could probably put a strap around the trailer bag to keep it off the windscreen.

 

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Couple more pics in use.

The good thing is the bag cleared the bikes on the towbar rack, and the boot lid stayed up with a few fairly lightweight bulky things in the bag.

There's about 5 to 7kg in the bag and nearly 60kg of bikes on the rack. There's also a few extra kg of stuff in the chair storage compartment.

I did get the van weighed fully loaded in this configuration. We were 40kg under the 3080kg overall limit, but the rear axle was 30kg over its limit, so we reshuffled some heavy stuff in the boot forward.