Malone Paddle Carrier for Roof Rack Crossbars - Clamp On - 4 Paddles

Video Transcript for Malone Ratchet Style Paddle Carrier Review

Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be taking a look at the Malone Clamp-On Paddle Carrier, part number MPG121. The Malone Paddle Carrier enables you to carry up to four paddles on the roof rack system of your vehicle, and has ratchet style straps to hold them all into place. By ratchet, whenever you pull it down you'll hear this sound, and you'll know it's secured down. You can use this with several different configurations. Right now we have a kayak paddle in place, obviously because we have our kayak, but this can also be used with stand up paddle board paddles, as well as sail board masts. This is a universal fit, meaning that thanks to the Jaws Universal Mounts here, we can fit around the arrow bars that you see as well as square, round, elliptical, and most factory style roof racks as well.This is very easy to install.

Simply just clamps around your existing roof rack system with the two turn knobs. This has a max diameter of four inches when all four paddles are installed, and has a limited lifetime warranty.When comparing this with other products, two that come up are gonna be the Thule Get a Grip, part number TH839, and the Yakima Multi-Mount Strap, part number Y04034. As far as the most economical choice, that's gonna go to the Malone, followed by the Yakima, then the Thule. As far as load capacity is concerned, that's gonna go to the Yakima Multi-Mount, because it actually has a five inch diameter capacity, as opposed to the Malone and the Thule, which only have a four inch diameter capacity. And finally, as far as what roof rack systems it can work with, the Malone and Thule both work with a wider variety, ranging from round, square, arrow, elliptical, and most factory roof rack mounts, while the Yakima Multi-Mount works with Yakima bars, but it does require an adapter which is sold separately to work with arrow bars.Now that we've gone over some of the features of this, let's go ahead and show you how it installs.

We have our ratcheting paddle carrier top here, we have our Jaws Universal Mount, and then we have two sets of screws to choose from. In this particular case, we'll be using the shorter screws. Then we have the washers and the turn knobs to tighten down around our roof rack system. So let's go ahead and get this installed.First take our bolt. Place that in on the top here.

And then, we'll take our Universal Mount, loosely install it on one side, followed by our washer and our turn knob.Put it on the end here. And then we'll tighten this down the rest of the way.Now we can load up our paddle. To do that, we'll go to our ratchet strap, push the top portion in, like that, that'll open it up. We'll do this to the other as well. And this can fit up to two paddles, if necessary.

We only have one kayak today, so we'll just be using the full one. Set it in nice and even. Make sure our little pad here is on top to hold it in place. Alright. Secure, and we're ready to hit the road.And there you have it for the Malone Clamp-On Paddle Carrier, part number MPG121.