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Code: Y02450
Retail:$219.00
Price:$197.10
Shipping Weight: 36 pounds
Shipping SpecialThe DoubleDown Ace offers a full house of great features, including a locking, anti-wobble knob that tightens the rack in your hitch without the use of tools. Anti-sway cradles, folding arms and a tilting mast help this rack trump the competition.
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Deal yourself a winning hand and pick up the Yakima DoubleDown Ace - a souped-up version of the classic DoubleDown. This hitch-mounted bike rack offers a veritable full house of features, including anti-sway cradles, a tilting mast, folding arms and easy, tool-free installation.
You can leave the annoying wrenches at home when you transport your bikes with the DoubleDown Ace. To install this rack in your hitch, simply insert the shank, slide in the hitch pin, and give the built-in SpeedKnob at the front of the rack a spin. This hand knob tightens the rack in place, eliminating play inside the hitch. The knob also includes a Yakima Same Key System core that locks your rack to your hitch. SKS lock cores can be swapped out to make all your Yakima accessories keyed alike.
The DoubleDown Ace comes with Yakima's SwitchBlade anti-sway cradles, which ensure that your bikes travel safely and securely. The cradles hold your bikes to the rack in three places - two along the top bar and one along a downward bar, such as a seat post. This third point of contact prevents not only sway, but also front-to-back movement and bike-to-bike contact. These cradles also slide along the rack arms to keep your bikes properly spaced - simply flip the integrated switch to release the cradle and slide it to the desired position. Soft rubber straps are also included to anchor your bikes in place.
This rack has narrowly spaced dual arms that offer excellent bike support and easy bike loading. And dual-arm support means that you're less likely to need a bike adapter bar. Some bikes, however - such as women's, children's and ones with alternative frames - may still require an adapter bar for level mounting. For security, an ArmLock cable lock is available (Y02453 - sold separately) to lock your bikes to the rack. This SKS-compatible cable lock installs inside the end of one arm, loops through your bike frame, and locks back on itself to secure your bikes.
The dual arms of the DoubleDown Ace fold down for storage. Simply press the TriggerFinger button at the head of the mast.
The rack body tilts forward, away from your vehicle, for easy access to your rear cargo area. Just pull the spring-loaded pin at the base.
For peace of mind, the DoubleDown Ace includes a tethered hitch pin. This pin holds the rack in place in your hitch and - since it's tethered to the rack - you never have to worry about losing it.
The 1-1/4-inch RocSteady steel shank comes with an easy-to-use adapter to convert the bike rack for use with 2-inch hitches.
And, as always, this Yakima rack comes complete with handy bottle openers built into the end of each arm.
Video of Yakima DoubleDown Ace 2 Bike Carrier for 1-1/4" and 2" Hitches - Tilting
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installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today well be taking a look at the Yakima DoubleDown Ace 2 Bike Carrier for both 1-1/4-inch and 2-inch hitches, part number Y02450. The DoubleDown Ace features an anti-wobble knob that tightens the rack in your hitch without the use of tool, anti-sway cradles, as well as folding arms and a tilting mast. Here at the shank of the bike rack youll notice the adaptor for 2-inch hitches. To remove the adaptor, using the included Allen wrench well remove the Allen bolt here at the bottom of the shank to remove the adaptor. Now our shank is ready for 1-1/4-inch hitch. Today well be using a 2-inch hitch so well go ahead and reinstall the adaptor.
Now here at our hitch, well go ahead and slide our bike rack shank into the hitch lining up the hitch pin hole. Youll notice that the DoubleDown Ace has an attached hitch pin. This hitch pin has a ball at the end giving you the confirmation when the pin is installed that its locked into place. Now here on the back of the shank on the mast of the bike rack, we can then turn the knob securing our anti-wobble device to the hitch. Here on the knob youll notice Yakima used one of their SKS lock cores to lock and unlock the knob.
When the knob is locked, the knob will turn freely although will not turn the anti-wobble device preventing the bike rack from being removed from the hitch. Youll notice when its tight that your bike rack is solid with the vehicle. Youll notice the pull pin here on the back of the mast. In order to tilt the bike rack mast down and gain access to your trunk youll pull this pin and tilt the mast down. You can then open your cargo door.
Up here at the top of the mast, youll notice the trigger switch. This switch will allow you to bring out your dual arms in preparation to load your bikes. Now here on the dual arms we have four cradles. Two of the cradles have an anti-sway device, one on each arm. Youll also notice the cradles are molded in a way to hold the bike frame and still protect the cables that run along the top bar of your bike.
Now well go ahead and undo the straps to expose our cradle. Well place the bike into the cradles and bringing the straps around the frame of the bike, well resecure them to the cradle itself. Here on the front cradle there are two attachment points. You can put the strap either on one side or the other depending on your bike configuration. With the strap secured, our bike is secured to the bike rack. Now also included with the DoubleDown are two straps. The short strap can be used to hold the front wheel to the down tube of your bike preventing your handle bars from turning in the wind. The longer strap can be used to further secure your bikes to the bike rack. Now that our bike is loaded, well go ahead and take our bike rack out on a test drive and see how it reacts on the road. Thats it for our demonstration of the Yakima DoubleDown Ace 2 Bike Carrier for both 1-1/4-inch and 2-inch hitches, part number Y02450.
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Just what I needed. Durable and solid construction. Very easy to use and assemble. 70285
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I haven't yet mounted this on my car. I have to get the hitch mounted first but everything looks solid and in good working order . 78813
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