Patent ID: 8534522

Claim:
An anti-sway device for stabilizing a bicycle supported upon a cradle borne upon an elongate arm of a vehicular mountable load carrier, said device having a clasping configuration and an open configuration and comprising: a first portion having a retaining strap, an elongate aperture configured to engage said elongate arm, and a bull-nose portion; and a second portion having an arm engaging portion and a bicycle engaging portion configured to abuttingly engage a tube of said bicycle, said arm engaging portion having a releasable clasp that is operator transitionable between a clasping configuration in which the device is secured to an elongate arm of a vehicular mountable load carrier and an open configuration in which the device is installable upon and removable away from the arm in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the elongate arm; wherein the bicycle engaging portion is concave shaped to receive the tube of the bicycle, and has a bull-nose receiving portion located adjacent to the arm engaging portion; and wherein said first portion is operatively engageable with said second portion at the bull-nose portion and engagement of the first portion enables clasping said first portion and said second portion to said elongated arm.