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Originally Posted by nuke
Does anyone have experience with roof or hitch mounted bike racks for their X-Trail?
We do a lot of mountain biking and had a convenient rack mounted on the spare tire of our old CRV. I don't know it I would want to lift the bikes up to the roof all the time. The other option would be to install a trailer hitch and have a swing away hitch mount. It appears that the bumper must be cut away somewhat for the hitch to be installed.
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We had the factory hitch installed on our vehicle. The only other hitch option we found was from hidden hitch. One important note, the hitches on the X-Trail are 1-1/4" CLASS 1 and can only support 200 lbs. You might be able to get someone to custom build something stronger. The swing-away hitches typically require 300 lbs, so you will be very limited. We bought the Saris T-RAX rack. Its a fold-down rack and can hold two bikes (a third if the bikes aren't heavy). We haven't road tested it yet, but it seems pretty sturdy. Nissan has a factory rack as well, but I don't know what the quality is. The bumper is just trimmed slightly, nothing major.