Patent ID: 7757917

Claim:
An anti-sway arrangement for stabilizing a bicycle supported upon a cradle borne upon an elongate arm of a vehicular mountable load carrier, said arrangement comprising: a cradle borne upon an elongate arm of a vehicular mountable load carrier, said elongate arm being insert-received in a through-hole located in the cradle and the cradle being configured to abuttingly receive a portion of a bicycle frame thereupon; an anti-sway device having a substantially Y-shape with two upper arms straddling the cradle, and said two upper arms being joined together at a lower common leg thereof; and each of said two upper arms having an arm engaging portion having a releasable clasp that is operator transitionable between a clasping configuration in which the anti-sway device is secured to the elongate arm and an open configuration in which the anti-sway device is installable upon and removable away from the elongate arm in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the elongate arm and whereby said anti-sway device accommodates installation onto, and removal off of, the elongate arm of the vehicular mountable load carrier without disengagement of the cradle from the elongate arm, wherein the cradle and said anti-sway device engage one another in a tongue-in-groove adaptation at a location radially outward from the cradle, said tongue-in-groove adaptation being configured to accommodate independent relative rotation of the cradle and said anti-sway device about the longitudinal axis of said elongate arm.