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Yakima SprocketRocket Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review
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Yakima SprocketRocket Roof Mounted Bike Carrier - Fork Mount
Y02090
$169.00
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Review of a Yakima SprocketRocket Roof Mounted Bike Rack
Today we are going to show you part number Y02090 from Yakima. This is their SprocketRocket bicycle rack, and what this rack is intended to do is carry your bicycles by their front forks. And this will mount onto round roof-rack bars or square roof-rack bars. A couple of features of this bicycle rack is a sliding adjustable wheel tray for the rear wheel itself, so you can accommodate bikes of varying lengths. On that wheel tray are also the double-sided straps. It has ratchets on both sides to help keep the rear wheels securely in place. And the best feature about this bicycle rack is the easy-to-use, one-handed, front fork skewer. We will go ahead and show you some more details of this bicycle rack and give you a better idea of how it looks.
With the bottom jaw open and the red tab pulled up, we will go ahead and set our SprocketRocket into place. We will line up the back screw in the clamp. And then the front half, put it over your crossbar and then simply push up the bottom clamp into position and then push down the red tab. And the front half is installed. Then go to the back half and put your little handle nut on. Leaving the front loose, take a few minutes to put it on the bars the way you want them - you want them centered or toward the end - and then clamp everything down. Just tighten up you handle nut, and then push down the red tab up front. Once you have the rack in the position you want, let us go ahead and install the skewer. You are going to have to unlock it up front. Do it about half-way and then install the skewer, and then you can go ahead and clamp it back down into position. We have got out skewer installed. Just put the other end of the skewer the actual clamp itself, just slide it on and rotate the red knob until you get it into position it may skip a little bit there you go and thread it into position. And then you can leave it just like that. Tighten the clamp down on the rear and keep the rack in its position right now. We will actually load the bike and show you an interesting trick that you can do with this.
We will start off with the rack as far over to the side as possible. Just leave it alone like that. We will go ahead and install our bike. Starting off, leave the rear strap off the bicycle rack too. Then install the bike like normal. Tighten up the front fork mount. Do the back wheel tie-down. And you can slide this to match the wheel. Install our strap. And there is a ratchet on both sides. OK, now our bike is secured on the bicycle rack. Now the trick is that you can actually slide this whole assembly now more toward the center of the vehicle if you need to. Once you have it in the position you want, go ahead and just snap the red lever down and tighten up the rear, and you are ready to hit the road. And that covers it for part number Y02090 from Yakima, the SprocketRocket bicycle rack.
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