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Swagman Fork Down Roof Mounted Bike Carrier - Fork Mount
Goes together quickly, appears that it will fit my needs in terms of being cross-compatible on a variety of vehicles. Fit on a Subaru Outback factory crossbar and transported bike locally with no issues when I got it out to set up and test (not quite warm enough to ride much yet where I live). Instructions are not super, but the assembly is pretty straightforward so that is not a problem. At the price point, if this rack indeed holds up to swapping onto multiple vehicles and lasts me a few years, I'll be thrilled with the purchase.
I purchased two of these racks, along with another rack that is meant to hold bikes with both tires still installed. I am extremely happy with all three of them. This rack specifically is very sturdy. Installation was sort of a pain, but that was mostly due to me installing it on the top of my 2004 GMC Yukon XL...it is so high that it was a little hard to install. But now that it's installed, it's actually very simple to take the bikes on and off. I've made one round trip with these racks, so I've put the bikes up there and removed them twice. Both trips (about 100 miles each way) they bikes were super sturdy and I had no concerns about them falling off or anything like that. I would definitely recommend this rack if you're looking for a fork down roof mounted bike carrier. In fact, I will very likely get another one when we add another bike to the family. I think I'll be able to fit four racks on the top of my Yukon easily. One last note - I was initially concerned about the height of my vehicle when bikes were on top of them. I brushed a couple of tree limbs when pulling into my camping spot, but it was no big deal. I think the total height of my load was about 10 feet, which was lower than the camper that I was pulling.
# 2
Swagman Upright Bike Rack for 1 Bike - Roof Rack Crossbars - Frame Mount
Planning on bringing bikes while camping. I mounted 2 of the Swagman bike racks to my new Sportrack on my pop-up camper. The bikes fit perfectly. The racks seem sturdy enough. Not heavy duty, but for my needs they should be fine. Assembly was relatively fast and easy.
We have used the Swagman Roof Rack a number of times when we have needed the additional bike carrying capacity. It took a couple attempts to get the initial spacing of the bike rack properly balanced on the van’s roof rack as recommended by the instructions. But it was easy to do and once set was very easy and quick to put on and take off. The rack works great, the bike is easy to put into place and secure. The bike and rack are very stable and quiet and haven’t required any mid-trip adjustments. We always put the cheapest bike on the roof (lol) but do use a bit of duct tape to protect the finish just Incase. We are very satisfied with the rack and consider it quite a deal for the money.
SportRack Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2013 Nissan Xterra we're going to be test fitting the Sport Rack Fork Mount Roof Bike Rack part number SR4622. With our Thule Rapid Crossroads Roof Rack already installed on our Xterra, we're going to begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto our load bars. Here at the front of the carrier, we're going to bring the two black metal, rubber coated U-bolts around the underside of our load bars, fit them through the head of the carrier, and secure them in place using the wing nuts. With all four wing nuts here at the front tight, we'll move to the rear. Here we're going to take two carriage bolts, place them through the appropriate holes in the base of the rack, being sure that we have one coming out on each side of our load bar, we'll then take the black plastic spacer, place it between our load bar and our rack, being sure that our carriage bolts go through that, then we'll put on the black rubber coated metal portion of our clamp. This will go under our load bar, and we'll secure it in place using the two wing nuts. With these two wing nuts tight, our rack is secured to our vehicle and we're now ready to load our bike. We'll want to undo our rear wheel strap and open our front skewer. We'll then grab our bike, place it onto the rack, guiding the front forks down onto the skewer where we'll secure it first ...
Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2013 Nissan Xterra, we're going to be test fitting the Kuat Trio, a fork-mounted roof bike rack, part number Ru01. With our Tuley Rapid Crossroads Roof Rack System already installed on the Xterra, we're going to begin our test fit by placing the trio directly onto our load bars. At the front of the carrier, we'll bring one of the black, rubber-coated metal U-bolts around the underside of our load bar, fit it through the head of our carrier, and hold it in place using two of the cylinder nuts. On the other side of the front of the carrier, we'll do the same thing. Bring the U-bolt around the underside of the bar, put on the two cylinder nuts; then we can tighten all four of our cylinder nuts down, to secure the rack to the vehicle, here at the front. We'll now move to the rear, where we're going to loosen our clamp and remove one of our wing nuts completely.
Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2013 Nissan Xterra, we'll be test fitting the Thule Domestique fork-mounted bike carrier, part number TH513. Now to begin our test fit, we'll go ahead and place the carrier on top of our crossbars. We'll then make sure that the head of the bike rack is directly over the front crossbar. We'll take the clamp, put it underneath the crossbar, where we'll use the included Allen bolts and wrench to secure it in place. With our head secured, we'll go ahead and move to the rear mounting location where we'll use the Allen bolt and the Allen wrench to secure it to our rear crossbar. Now with the bike rack secured to our Xterra, we're ready to load our bike.
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2013 Nissan XTerra well be test fitting the fork-style roof-mounted bike rack from Swagman part #s64710. With our roof-rack system already installed onto our vehicle, well place our bike carrier directly onto our crossbars. To secure the front part of our carrier well feed the U-bolts underneath our crossbar and up through the holes in the platform. Well secure the front part of our carrier by installing wing nuts on each U-bolt and tightening them down. Well move to the rear. Well feed the U-bolt through the top of the carrier making sure that it goes around the crossbar. Well install the wing nuts and tighten them down securing the rear part of our bike carrier. Now we need to make sure that the skewer is open and that the rear wheel strap is undone. Well grab our bike; place it onto the carrier dropping the front forks down onto the skewer.
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2013 Nissan Xterra we'll be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number rky1011. Now to begin our test fit we'll place the bike rack on top of our crossbars. We'll make sure that the head of the bike rack is over the front crossbar where we'll bring the rubber-coated steel straps underneath the crossbar and secure it back to the head of the bike rack.With that done we'll take the large Allen wrench that comes with the TieRod Stretch and tighten down the bolt here in the center. This will bring the rubber-coated steel straps tight securing the head of the bike rack to the front crossbar. We'll move back to the rear crossbar where we'll make sure that the rear mounting point is slid through the rear crossbar and tighten it down using the smaller Allen wrench that also comes with the TieRod.Now that we have all our bolts tight our bike rack is secured and we're ready to load our bike. We'll make sure that the front fork skewer is undone as well as the rear wheel strap out of the way.
Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Nissan Xterra
Today, on our 2012 Nissan Xterra, we'll be test fitting the Yakima FrontLoader Wheel-Mounted Bike Rack, part number Y02103. With the Yakima Round Bar Roof Rack System assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing our FrontLoader directly onto our crossbars. Here at the front, we'll want to be sure that our front clamps go around our front bar. Once we have that set, we can then use the handle at the front to secure our front clamp around the front bar. With that tight, we'll move to the rear and bring our rear clamp around our rear bar. We'll drop the T bolt through the appropriate slot and then use the hand knob to secure it. We'll go ahead and open up our wheel mount, and we'll undo the rear-tire strap.
Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2012 Nissan Xterra
Today, on our 2012 Nissan Xterra, we'll be test fitting the Yakima Forklift roof mounted bike rack, part number Y02098. With the Yakima Round Bar roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the Forklift directly onto our load bars. Here at the front, we'll want to remove our skewer, slide away our slotted bracket so we gain access to our T bolt. We'll bring our clamp around our front bar, fit our T bolt through the appropriate slot, and tighten it down with a T handle. Once we have that in place, we can slide the slotted bracket up around the T handle and reinstall our skewer. At the rear, we'll bring the rear bracket around the rear bar, drop our T bolt through the slot, and tighten it down using the T handle. We'll go ahead and undo the rear wheel strap and make sure our skewer at the front is loose. We'll grab our bike and place it onto our bike rack.
Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Nissan Xterra
Today on our 2012 Nissan Xterra, well be test fitting the Thule Big Mouth Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number TH599XTR. With the Thule crossroad roof rack system on our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the big mouth directly on to our load bars. Here at the front platform, well bring our bracket around our rear bar. We can then fit our T-bolt through the T-slot and use the wing nut on top of our platform to secure it around our bar. We can then repeat that process for the other side of the front platform. Here at the rear, well drop our bolts around our rear bar.
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