Transporting a Tadpole Trike... How?

I f-i-n-a-l-l-y ran across some old pictures of the rack I'd made to haul both Jo's Catrike Road and my RANS Force 5 recoumbents. When Jo was hit head-on by a drunk driver (just after a bicycle ride), this rack was totaled in the accident so it no longer exists.

With both her trike and my bike loaded, the pictures get pretty busy and it's fairly hard to see how it's done. Luckily, I had some pics of the rack w/o the trike & bike loaded so I've tried to place them in a reasonable order so one can sort of see what was done to create it.

In short, the rack was a simple aluminum cargo hauler for coolers, etc. Her trike was just a bit too wide to fit onto, but I had a cheap/old JC Whitney receiver rack for two standard DF bikes. So I somewhat cannibalized it, using a pair of the wheel holders. I simply added a pair of 2x4's beneath the cargo rack, then mounted the wheel holders to them. Lastly I mounted a single, vertical 4x4 with a fork mount atop it, to hold my RANS Force 5 fork.

All we had to do was sit her trike in place first, then I removed my bike's front wheel and attached it into place via the fork mount. We would then bungee-cord Jo's trike down and I had a foam block that was inserted between my right M5 seat-stay and Jo's Catrike frame. If I recall correctly, I think I also bungee'd my bike to the side of Jo's trike frame.

Anyway, I thought I had taken some pictures of it at one time and they turned out to be on a backup drive of one of my (very) older computers. While it may/maynot work for others, I thought it might at least get folks to thinking sort of outside the box in how to make their own trike racks.

 

Hey Gene,
I'm visualizing what you've described and just have a question. Is your vehicle a van? If so, I can picture what's going. If not, how do the front wheels of your trike reach over a trunk to the roofline?

If you ever get a chance I'd love to see a picture of it, or perhaps when we cross paths next time I can see it for myself.