{"id":271192,"date":"2026-06-12T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/can-you-trust-suction-cup-technology-allens-smart-suction-go-rack-might-change-your-mind\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:45:14","slug":"can-you-trust-suction-cup-technology-allens-smart-suction-go-rack-might-change-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/can-you-trust-suction-cup-technology-allens-smart-suction-go-rack-might-change-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Trust Suction Cup Technology? Allen\u2019s Smart Suction Go Rack Might Change Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can You Trust Suction Cup Technology? Allen\u2019s Smart Suction Go Rack Might Change Your Mind<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-12 09:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The technology has been around for a while, but it\u2019s still not easy to trust your however-many-thousand-dollar bike on a suction-cup bike rack. But what if that rack came with an app that let you know if there was anything to worry about? When the folks from Allen reached out to me to see if I was interested in giving the new Smart Suction Go Compact 1-Bike Rack a try, I figured it was time to put my hesitations about the technology aside and put the rack to the test \u2013 especially once I heard that I would be forewarned if anything was going wrong before my bike disappeared off the top of my car. <\/p>\n

For those who aren\u2019t familiar with Allen bike racks, the company got its start way back in 1967 when Dick Allen, a Harvard physics graduate, was laid off from his job working on NASA\u2019s Apollo program thanks to government budget cuts. Since he wanted to take his family on trips to Cape Cod and into the mountains with their bikes, and there weren\u2019t affordable rack options available, he started drafting up bike rack designs and then building them in his garage. By 1971 he was selling Allen Bike Racks across the United States. Over the years the brand expanded beyond trunk racks to add hitch racks, spare tire racks, bike trailers and strollers to the mix. <\/p>\n

Last year Allen added another innovative product to the line up \u2013 the Smart Suction Bike Rack, its first venture into the suction-cup rack world. What made the Smart Suction rack different were the bluetooth sensors that monitored the pressure and provided warnings if you needed to check on the rack. This year the company released the Smart Suction Go, which offers the same real-time monitoring, but in a more compact form factor than the original Smart Suction rack.<\/p>\n

Easy Set Up and Installation<\/h2>\n

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The folks at Allen are not joking when they talk about how compact this system is. Things are really easy to set up \u2013…<\/p>\n

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