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May the new year bring everyone peace, joy, and many safe, enjoyable journeys in their Oliver. Bill

Personally, I don't miss it at all. I wish it was an option each user could set. Right in the way when using my smartphone

During a visit to the Oliver factory in October, I picked up the new bike rack without the Thule components installed. I had a local bike shop modify it by welding a new piece of aluminum to the Oliver bike rack frame. The bike shop ordered components from Thule that are part of the Thule T2 Classic bike rack. The components that Oliver uses will not accommodate fat-tire bikes. I plan to carry my Felt D30 fat bike that has 4" wide tires and my Salsa Cutthroat that has 2 1/4" tires so I needed something different from the rack Oliver offers. This modified rack will handle these bikes and even a skinny-tire road bike if I decide to travel with one in the future. The modification was pretty simple. The bike shop sent the Oliver frame to a welder who works with aluminum. He welded a new member in the middle of the rack as shown in the first photo. The Thule components are mounted on that new member. I've included photos I took when I picked up the completed rack at the bike shop showing how it looks like with a bike mounted. I've also included photos of the Thule T2 Classic bike rack that the components are from. I'm looking forward to traveling to the rally with my fat bike. The temperature will hit 14 to 15 below zero tonight here in Iowa. I rode my fat bike a couple of days ago after we received 4-5" of snow. It was about 13 degrees. The weather in Alabama will be much better!

Ditto ditto ditto. Please permanently do away with it or put it at the bottom of the screen. It takes up TOO MUCH SPACE on the side of a phone screen.

Just drill the 1/2” hole out to 5/8” and put a regular hitch pin lock in it.

John, you're so shy, have you ever thought of counseling to bring you out of your shell and better express your feelings... ;) I don't disagree with your visual assessment of the body styling. Some do actually like them though, so all options make for better decision making.