Awning, Bike Rack. & power tongue jack

But wait!  There is more... thinking I wanted to take my bike with me, we also installed not only the Jack It bike rack from Lippert, but while we (  - well mostly he) had to take the tongue jack apart to do that, he also installed a power tongue jack!  As to the bike rack...as you can see in the pix it can be very high off the ground... I couldn't carry the bike up the step ladder to put it up there (there are no instructions anywhere to be found on guidelines for doing thing)  it was by trial & error I learned that my big bike had to go on the top - and I ended up having to readjust the stabilizing posts * foam guards several times to get them in the correct position.  As to the height... my brilliant son suggested to me to just lower the jack as far as possible while I load the bike...  DUH!  but okay it worked and although I did have to get on the ladder still it was mainly to  get the straps on!  If you are wondering about the propane tanks, I was able to get the pliable cover off & on  to change the tanks without having to remove the rack.

As to the tongue jack... should have gotten one that wired directly to the battery instead of hooking to the 7 prong adapter...I am looking for instructions on how to adapt it as I understand there are some out there... having to back the TV in close to get power to the jack while I raise & lower it to get the bike on is bad enough, but the TV is so close that I have to unhook the jack, move the TV to make room to put the bike up/off and then move the TV back so I can raise the tongue again grrrrrrrr... live & learn!!!

And is that the F45 or the F65?

The bike rack looks very interesting, but also a PITA to load and unload.

My doctor told me I need weight bearing exercise! Actually just running the tongue jack all the way down gets it to a point where I can get the bike down fairly easily...I just haven't figured out how to do that without getting the grease from the chain all over me!  Little WD-40 gets it off every time!.  Actually, my spare is on my hitch & I was told that FR says no to bikes on that hitch (one would think they would actually be lighter than the spare???) Anyway as to checkers... Tootsie has no opposable thumbs so she is really quite useless when it comes to board games... no matter how large they are!