Bike rack bolted to bed rail?

[bghurc]

Folks,

 

1up makes high quality bike racks. I've invested a lot of time and money into my bikes and don't want to just throw in the bed. I'd like to buy one of these racks, but most people mount them on a track system, with 2 bars that run across the bed. I use the bed of my Silverado pretty often, so I thought about drilling 2 holes in the bed rail and bolting the bike rack directly to the rail.

 

Any thoughts? I'm concerned that the rail may flex too much under the side to side force from the bike as I'm going down the road. Only have 11k miles on the truck...don't want to screw it up too much yet

 

https://www.1up-usa.com/product/roof-rack/

 

 

[rbrjr1]

I've got a RETRAX Pro XR bed cover on my truck and utilized Yakima's options for mounting the round bars.

I already had the XL bars so I just needed the Landing Pads and Skyline Towers.

 

it's ROCK SOLID as are all of yakima's options and I absolutely love it.