Anyone have a Bak Roll X tonneau cover

[Art-n-Marge]

I had a Pace roll back on a short bed truck and didn't like the canister since it took up so much room especially on the short bed. Then I traded for a new truck with a long bed and changed to Bak Industries BAKFlip and loved that other than getting used to the cover blocking the rear window when it was flipped backwards (learned to use the side mirrors real well), that a roll bak would probably have been okay. The BAKflip now sits in the garage because in my commercial RV towing days, I bought a low profile tool box for the truck bed that interfered with the cover. I hear that the bakflip has been improved, but mine was having trouble when the tape they use on the sharp edges started to fray away. I liked either cover even though neither was the Bak Industries roll back.

I no longer commercially tow, but the tool box is so large I now use it for security and the BAKflip is still in the garage. If I can ever design a 1 or 2 inch riser for the truck bed front and side rails so that it clears the tool box so I can reinstall the BAKflip, then that's what I'd like. For the tail gate area I'd have to design some kind of dropdown that attaches to the BAKflip. Being able to have the whole truck bed secure short of a camper shell is nice, hence the popularity of a tonneau type cover.

Btw - I have been to BAK industries in the San Fernando Valley about 90 miles from my house in southern California. I went there when I complained about the design of an early BAKflip. I had purchased this product when it first came out (probably a bad idea to buy version 1.0) They offered that if I brought the truck to them, they'd retrofit one of the improvements from their new design that fixed the problem. They converted the struts from the BAKflip to a more reliable rigid brace when the BAKflip was folded back against the truck cab.

I wonder if the heavy duty model means that you can stand on it. I didn't like that Bak Industries products could not hold much weight, IIRC about 50lbs? That's pretty much nothing. When I helped people move and used my truck. the BAKflip had to be left open since nothing could be placed on top of it (like a boxspring or mattress). This defeats the security I was hoping to gain with being able to keep the cover closed.