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Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we're going to be test fitting the Thule Vertex 4-Bike Rack, part number TH9029XT. As you can see we already have a bike installed on our rack. Let's go ahead and get in closer, take a look at some of the features. How the bike is actually attached to the rack, there's three points of contact to your bike's frame. You have the two straps up here, and the one off to the side. The one off to the side is the anti-sway strap, which keeps it moving back and forth, possibly crashing into the bike rack or into the bike in front of it, maybe damaging it. Let's go ahead and take that off. It's always good practice to go ahead and re-install the straps once you take them off, just so they're not flapping around while you're driving, and so that you don't lose them while your driving. Next, I'm going to give you some measurements that will help you with knowing the distance it's going to add to your vehicle once it's installed.



Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we're going to be test fitting the Thule RoadWay Two Bike Rack, part number TH912XTR. Now we already have a bike on our rack. Let's go ahead and take a closer look at some of the features. You're going to have three points of contact on your bike's frame to hold it in place. You have the two straps up on top as well a the anti-sway strap which keeps it from going back and forth, possibly hitting the bike in front of it. Let's go ahead and take that off. It's always good practice to go ahead and reinstall your straps so they're not flapping around while you're driving or you don't lose them while you're driving.



Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge. We're test fitting the Swagman XC2 platform style 2 bike rack. This is designed to work with inch and a quarter and 2 inch hitches, and the part number for that is S64650. As you can see we do already have our bikes on here. We're gonna show you how we secure the bike down and also some features of the bike rack itself. Now the only thing holding down the bike.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we are test fitting the Kuat Transfer Platform-Style 2 Bike Rack. This bike rack is designed to work with inch and a quarter or 2-inch hitches. There's an adapter that comes with it for the 2-inch hitches. The part number of this is TS02G. Now, as you can see, we do already have our bike on the rack. I want to show you how we secure the bike down and then also some other features of the rack itself. Now, this is a tilt-away bike rack.



Yakima FullTilt Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Presenter: Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we are test fitting the Yakima Full Tilt hanging style 4-bike rack. This bike rack is designed to work with 1-1/4" and 2" hitches and the part number for that is Y02462. Now, as you can see, we do already have our bike secured onto our rack. We're going to show you how we secure that onto the rack and then also some extra features. As you can see here, we do have 3 cradles and straps that are keeping our bike to the rack itself. We've got 2 on the frame here and the one which is on the seat post that's going to be our anti-sway strap. To release those, we're just going to press down on each grey lever on either side and pull the straps straight out.



Softride Element Parallelogram Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we're test fitting the Softride Element Parallelogram tilting-style 4-bike rack. Now this bike rack is designed for 1-1/4" and 2" hitches. It comes with an adapter for the 1-1/4". The part number for that is going to be SR26248. Now as you can see, we do already have our bike on here. We're going to show you how we tilt it away first, because a nice feature about this bike rack is that it can tilt away with the bike still on the rack. So how do we do that It's pretty simple.



Yakima StickUp 2 Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting the Yakima StickUp 2 Bike Hitch Mounted Folding Bike Rack for both 1-1/4 and 2-inch hitches, part number Y02420. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply slide the bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pin hole, and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. And with the bolt tight, our bike rack is secured to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and give you a few measurements. Our ground clearance at the bike rack is 11 inches and from the closest point of the bike rack to the back of the vehicle is 2 inches. We'll now go ahead and unfold the bike rack platform and open our cargo door.



Thule Parkway 2 Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting the Thule Parkway 2 Bike Carrier, part number TH958. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply slide the bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pin hole, and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. With our bolt tight, our bike rack is secured to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and pull the pin at the bottom of the bike rack mast to tilt the mast down. We can then open our cargo door. And as you can see, we can gain full access to this cargo area with this bike rack.



Thule Hitching Post Pro Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting part number TH934XTR. This is the Thule Hitching Post Pro with Anti-Sway Cradles. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply slide our bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pin hole, and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. This will secure our bike rack to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and give you a few measurements. At our bike rack, the ground clearance is 10 inches and from the closest point of the bike rack to the back of the vehicle is 6 inches.



Thule Doubletrack Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting the Thule Doubletrack Platform Style 2 Bike Carrier, part number TH990XT. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply slide the bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pin hole, and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. With our bolt tight, our bike rack is secured to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and give you a few measurements. Our ground clearance at the bike rack is 10 inches and from the closest point of the bike rack platform to our rear bumper is 3-1/4 inches. We'll now go ahead and pull the switch at the bottom of the bike rack platform to bring the platform down.



Thule Apex 4 Swing Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting the Thule Apex Swing 4 Bike Carrier for 2-inch Hitches, part number TH9027. Now, all we'll need to do to fit this bike rack to the vehicle is slide the bike rack shank into the hitch, making sure that the integrated locking hitch pin is pulled out. Once the pin is over the collar, we'll push it back in and allow it to lock in to the hitch pin hole of the hitch. We'll then move to the back of the shank here where we'll tighten the knob down, securing our bike rack to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and give you a few clearance measurements. Our ground clearance at the bottom of the bike rack is 11 inches and the anti-rattle knob is 2 inches from the back of the vehicle.



SportRack EZ Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge, we'll be test fitting the SportRack 2 Bike Hitch Mounted Bike Carrier with Wheel Mount Cradles, part number A30901. To begin our test fit, we'll simply slide the bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pin hole, and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. And that will secure our bike rack to the vehicle. We'll now go ahead and give you a few measurements. Our ground clearance at the back of the bike rack is 15-1/2 inches and from the closest point of the bike rack to the back of the vehicle is 7 inches. We'll now go ahead and unfold the bike rack platform and open our cargo door.



Rhode Gear Highway Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on our 2012 Ford Edge well be test fitting the Rhode Gear Highway 2 Bike Carrier for both 1-1/4-inch and 2-inch hitches. This is part number RG80152320. Now, to begin our test fit well simply slide our bike rack shank into the hitch, line up the hitch pinhole and install and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt. With our bolt tight, our bike rack is secured to the vehicle. Well now go ahead and give you a few measurements. Our ground clearance at the bike rack is 10 inches and from the closest point of the bike, rack mast to the back of the vehicle is 6 inches.



Thule Vertex 4 Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Today on this 2012 Ford Edge, we're going to do a test fit of the Vertex 4 Bike Rack part number TH9029. A few quick notes about this bicylcle rack is that you can use it of 1-1/4" receiver hitch both class 1 and class 2. However with a class 1 receiver hitch, you are limited to two bicycles. This will also work in a 2-inch receiver hitch as shown here with the provided spacer. We'll start off our test fit by installing our bike rack into the hitch and then tighten down the anti-rattle bolt. All right with the bike rack installed we'll get a couple of clearence measurements.



Thule Apex 4 Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Alright, today on this 2012 Ford Edge were going to do a test fit of part number TH9025 from Thule, the Apex 4 Bicycle Rack. Now were doing our test fit in a 2-inch receiver hitch. This bike rack will also work with 1-1/4-inch receiver hitch both class I and class II. However, with class I receiver hitches you are only limited to two bikes. Alright, we'll start off our test fit by installing the bike rack into the hitch. We'll make sure that the integrated hitch pin engages into the hitch pin hole.



Softride Dura Hitch Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Edge

Alright, today, on this 2012 Ford Edge, we're going to do a test fit of a Softride Bicycle Rack. This is a Dura Parallelogram Bike Rack, part number SR26247. One note about this bicycle rack is that this is designed for 2-inch receiver hitches only and then the bicycle rack does have two sets of hitch pinholes to allow you to adjust the depth of how far the bike rack goes into the hitch to give you different amounts of clearance. In this case, were going to be using the hole that gives the most amount of clearance. We'll start off our test fit by installing the bike rack into the hitch. We'll tighten down the anti-rattle bolt and then we'll go ahead and install the lock.





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