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Swagman XTC2 Bike Rack for 2 Bikes - 1-1/4" and 2" Hitches - Frame Mount
Solid bike rack for the $ ... easy install on our '16 Outback and it's been issue free for over a year with a fairly decent amount of use.
The Swagman XTC 2 bike platform carrier was mounted on a 2010 Subaru Outback equipped with a 2" receiver. I will also use the bike carrier on a 2008 Saturn Vue. Ordering from etrailer was straight forward, shipping was fast with continuous texts from etrailer as to shipping status. Impressive. The bike rack works perfect for my wife's extended wheel base-pedal forward Townie bike and my Giant Sequoia trail bike. Bike positioning is important, but not difficult. Retaining hooks ratchet into place easily, and rubber straps secure the wheels. The anti-rattle receiver mount with threaded locking hitch pin works well. No slop there. The only concern we have is the flexing of the receiver bar. With no bikes on board and the carrier arms in the vertical positing, you can watch the minor 'dancing' of the vertical members. Put 2 bikes on the carrier and you can see a little more wobble of the bikes. I suspect the receiver arm of the carrier needs to be sturdier to eliminate this movement. When you read the warranty, you will notice Swagman will void the warranty if the bikes are carried on a 5th wheel trailer or on a vehicle that is taken off road. That tells me they know the receiver arm needs beefing up. Oh well, it works for my interstate transport. I would recommend this carrier for normal day to day transport of 2 bikes.
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Swagman XC2 Bike Rack for 2 bikes - 1-1/4" and 2" Hitches - Frame Mount
I have been searching for the right bicycle rack to fit my 2016 Subaru Outback since the day I purchased the vehicle. etrailer's price, product description and customer support is tops. Can't wait until Spring and warmer weather to assemble my bike rack, load up the Outback and go riding. etrailer's website and product description was very helpful to me in making my bike rack decision, The price was right. Thanks
The bike rack arrived in perfect condition and I was very pleased to see that it was so substantial. It was hard to tell on line how heavy duty it was but it's more than enough to handle our two hybrid bikes. I was able to put it together fairly easily no thanks to the minimal directions. It wasn't hard to figure out, but there were a few small parts that were left to the assembler's imagination. I easily put the rack on our Subaru Outback and it worked perfectly. First class product!
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Swagman Chinook Bike Rack for 2 Bikes - 1-1/4" and 2" Hitches - Frame Mount
Works for my fat tire bike. Once it's set up, it's easy to install and remove. I had to cut out some of the plastic cladding on the underside of my bumper on my 2014 Subaru Outback. Good value. I've had no issues.
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Swagman XTC4 Bike Rack for 4 Bikes - 2" Hitches - Frame Mount
Rack is very sturdy and heavy duty. Instructions were terrible. Locking hitch pin would not thread correctly and ended up damaging it. Thankfully the threads on rack were fine and I was able to use the non-locking threaded pin. Would like a replacement locking pin ASAP
For the price, it's a good-quality, sturdy bike rack. I have used it about 5-7 times with no issues. I only used it for one adult and two kids' bikes, but I am sure it can handle four bikes as advertised. It's great that the rack folds upwards when it's not required.
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Kuat NV 2.0 Bike Rack for 2 Bikes - 2" Hitches - Wheel Mount - Gunmetal Gray
I have a great rack! (actually my wife does) I have 5 or 6 friends that use this rack and grew weary of throwing my bike on top of the Outback. Additionally my wife has become interested in venturing off on her own and cannot put a bike on top her outback. etrailer shipped promptly, and the product arrived in good shape, note: there were a few spots where the parts had jostled around in the box slightly and you could see some marring of the surface. This polished right out with a microfiber towel and mothers. There are a few minor nicks (I mean really minor) on the rack;but, they were there before being put in the factory packaging. Not enough to whine about just know the finish is great just not perfect. Speaking of the finish the color matches my Outback perfectly, it actually looks like an OEM Subaru thing. Fit is good using the Hidden/Drawtite hitch clearing the hatch while tilted back easily even with 800mm bars. The locking Hitch pin that comes with the rack is 1/2" diameter instead of the normal 5/8", fortunately the hitch mentioned above has a smaller 1/2" about 12mm aft of the 5/8" hole. The hole in the rack is 5/8" but do to the snugging system on the Küat the mismatch I'd of no consequence. Assembly is easy and someone with good mechanical aptitude should be able to do it in less than 10, an extra set of hands would be nice but aren't required. I built mine on an elevated bench and it was quick and super easy, admittedly I used power tools because I have them. I'm looking forward to the convenience of a tray.
I received the rack very quickly from eTrailer.com, faster than expected, which is always nice. Of course UPS beat the tar out of the box, but the rack was packed well and survived the abuse without a scratch. Assembly was quick and easy, 4 main bolts and 1 for the tilt release lever, that was it. This rack is built like a tank, I'm impressed with the construction and finish. Test fit my road bike (Cannondale Synapse Carbon) and wife's MTB (Cannondale Foray) in just a few minutes. Bikes fit well and felt very solid. Overall I'm a very happy camper and would highly recommend the rack and eTrailer.com.
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RockyMounts MonoRail Bike Rack for 2 Bikes - 2" Hitches - Wheel Mount
I bought this rack for transporting my full suspension mountain bike and gravel bike on the back of my 2016 subaru outback. The rack itself so far is great - I spent a while researching different systems, and the Rocky Mounts MonoRail had the best value for features of all racks I looked at. The tilt feature is great, and the loading/offloading is easy. The integrated locks for the rack and your bikes are a great feature, although the cable would not stop a determined thief with tools. Bikes are relatively stable in the cradles on highways, minimal movement on gravel roads. One complaint is that the entire rack is not very snug in the 2" hitch installed on my vehicle. There is a noticeable bob and sway on the entire loaded unit on bumpy roads. Ideally, I would add shims. Finally, this unit does block ~60% of my backup camera, which just means you have to be careful and use the old school method of turning around to look before backing up.
This is going to be an excellent product and I'm so excited for the ease of use. Putting it together wasn't great as the instructions are quite vague, but found a YouTube video and that made it very easy. Assembled it in about 25 minutes because I put a few of the pieces on backward at first. Love the fact that it easily folds up and doesn't take up a lot of space on the back of my car. Very excited to use it!
Malone Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon, we're going to be test fitting the Malone Pilot two-bike platform rack for 2-inch hitches, part number MPG2112. We already have a bike on our rack, so let's take a closer look and show off some of the features. One of the more prominent features about this bike rack, is the fact that it can tilt away from the vehicle with both bikes still attached, so we can gain rear hatch access. To do that, we'll come to this pin at the base, pop the pin loose. And you'll notice, that even with the pin loose, that's not going to come down. And that's because it's kind of a built in safety feature with this catch in the front, to make sure that's not going to fall down on you while you're trying to take this out. What you do, is you take a hold of the rack, pull out, let it tilt down.
Malone Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon MPG2124
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon we're going to be test fitting the Malone Hanger 4 bike rack for 1-1/4" and 2" hitches, part number MPG2124. We already have a bike installed on the rack. Let's take a closer look and show off some of the features. How the bike is attached to the rack, we're going to have two points of contact. We're going to have a strap up at the top here and off to the side here. That's going to serve as an anti-sway cradle to keep the bike from moving too far back and forth and causing bike to bike contact. The cradles are movable side to side and front to back. This is to accommodate loading of bikes.
Compatible? Yes! The Curt Bike Rack for 4 Bikes Fits a 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we've got the Curt Premium Folding and Tilting four bike rack out and doing a test fit on it. This bike rack works great for two inch hitches. Part number on it is C108064. Now the Curt Premium bike rack has a couple really nice features about it. To start, we've got a small taper back here on our cradle arms. That's to help accommodate the smaller bike frames, your kids' bikes.
RockyMounts Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're doing a test fit of the RockyMount SplitRail Platform Style 2 bike rack. That part number is RKY1140. We already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you one of the key features of this rack. We're going to come here to the back and underneath this portion here there's a handle. We're just going to pull that out and that's going to allow us to tilt our bike rack away from our vehicle with our bikes fully loaded.
Fit Check: Yakima HoldUp Bike Rack for 2 Bikes on a 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're doing a test fit of the Yakima Hold Up Platform Style 2 Bike Bike Rack. That part number is Y02443. Now we already have our bike secured down. First we're first going to show you one of the key features of the rack. We're going to come here to the back, lift up on our rack, and then pull out on our red pin, and that's going to allow us to tilt our back rack fully loaded away from our vehicle. With that tilted away, we're going to gain access into our back hatch area, to get anything in or out that we may need. You may notice we have a few inches between that door and our handlebars whenever it's opening.
Fit Verified: Kuat NV 2.0 Bike Rack for 2 Bikes on a 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon, we're doing a test fit of the Kuat NV 2.0 Platform-Style 2 Bike Rack. That part number is NV22G. We already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you one of the key features of this rack. I'm going to grab onto the end of our bike rack and pull down on the lever on the side here. That's going to allow us to actually tilt our bike rack with our bike's fully attached away from our vehicle. This is great because we do have that automatic hatch here.
Fit Test: Thule Hitching Post Pro Bike Rack for 4 Bikes on a 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon we're doing a test fit of the Thule Hitching Post Pro Hanging Style 4 Bike Rack. That part number is TH934XTR. Now, we already have our bike secured down. First, going to show you how we do that. We've got 2 cradles in place with 3 straps altogether, 2 on our frame here and 1 as our anti-sway in the back. We're just going to pull down and lift up to release those.
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon we're doing a test fit of the Thule T2 Pro Platform Style Bike Rack. That part number is TH9034. We already have our bike secured down. We're first going to go over some features, take a few measurements, and go over how our bike is secured down. First feature I want to show you is our tilting feature, because we can do this with our bike attached. We're going to pull on our handle back here and lower that bike rack down.
Softride Element-Parallelogram Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're doing a test fit of the Softride Element Parallelogram Hanging Style 4 Bike Rack. That part number is SR26248. We already have our bike installed. We're first going to show you one of the big features about this rack. Unlike most hanging style racks, this one actually can tilt away from our vehicle with our bikes fully loaded. To do that, we've got a black T pin here on the other side.
Pro Series Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon we're doing a test fit of the Pro-Series Q-Slot platform-style 2 and 4-bike rack. That part number is PS63138. Now we already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you how we do that. At the front and the back tire we have hook and loop straps that are going to hold our tires in place. In the center we have a frame hook. That's really going to hold our bike down and into our wheel cradles.
Thule Doubletrack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon we're doing a test fit of the Thule Double Track platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is TH990XT. Now we already have our bike secured into place. We're first going to show you how we do that. We have our ratcheting strap at the front and back tire. How we release those, we're going to lift up on the gray portion of that strap.
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon ETTHT2P-1
Today on this 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon we're going to be testing the Thule 2T Pro 2 Bike Rack, part#TH9035. This is for 1 1/4 inch hitches only. Let's go ahead and take a look at some of the features. The first feature I like to show off is the fact that it can actually tilt away from the vehicle with the bike still attached. To do that we'll come to the front here with this handle, we'll pull in, gently let it down and now we have access to our rear hatch to get whatever it is we need. Plenty of space for that as well. To put it back in it's original position you simply grab it by the handle as you did before, lift up ...
Yakima FullTilt Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon we're test fitting the Yakima FullTilt. This a hanging style tilting 4 bike rack. It's been designed so we can use it with inch and a 1/4 or with 2 inch hitches. The part number on it is Y02462. This rack has a really neat cradle system. Basically, the arms create the cradles for us. They're nice and soft, plenty of areas where you can see for that top tube to ride in.
Fit Test: Swagman Trailhead Bike Rack for 4 Bikes with 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon, we've got the Swagman Trail Head out and we're doing a test fit on it, and see how it measures up on the back side of the vehicle. The Trail Head is a 4 bike hanging style rack. It's been designed for use with the inch and a quarter or 2 inch hit. Part number on it is S63380. The Trail Head uses 4 straps to hold our bike in place. Most of the time we just see 3. We're going to have 2 here for the top frame tube, 1 here for our top frame tube a little closer to the seat, and then 1 down on the seat post.
Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon TS03B
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we've got the Kuat Transfer out and we've got it tested here on the back of the Subaru. Now, this is a platform style 3-bike rack, folds away from the vehicle even with the bike loaded to give us access into the hatch there. It also tilts up against the rear of the vehicle for reducing the overall length that we've added. Part number on it is TS03G. Now, one of the things that you might notice is that in holding the bike on the rack there is no frame contact at all. We've a wheel hook that's right here on the front. We place that right in front of our front break caliber and then just push it down.
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon th9031xt
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback wagon, we've got the Thule Vertex swing out. We're going to take a look at it, kind of see how it fits the car. Now, this is a four bike swing away style rack. Part number on it is TH9031XT. Pardon me, TH9031XT. Now, the biggest feature about it of course is the way it swings away from the vehicle. What we'll do is come right down here to the backside.
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon th912xtr
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon we've got the Thule Roadway. We're doing a testing on it. This is a hanging style 2-bike rack. It's been designed for use with the 1.25 or with 2 inch hitches. Part number on it is TH912XTR. Now the Roadway does a really good job of keeping our bikes in place.
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon TH9029XT
Today on our 2026 Subaru Outback Wagon we've gotten out the Thule Vertex and we're doing a testing on it to see how it stacks up against the rear of the vehicle here. Now the vertex is a really nice folding and tilting-style 4-bike rack. It's been designed so we can use it with the inch-and-a-quarter or with 2 inch hitches. Part number is TH9029XT. One of the things I like is going to be the incorporated cable lock here. Comes back, it's going to use one of our Thule one-key lock tumblers.
Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon s64684
Today on our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we've got the Swagman Dispatch out. We're doing a test fit on it and see how it fits alongside the back of the Outback. Now, this is a 2-bike platform style rack. It is RV approved and it's designed to fit 2-inch hitches. Part number on it is S64684. Now, the Dispatch has a front wheel cradle, rear wheel cradle, and a frame hook right up here on top. The frame hook is a nice rubberized material.
Compatible? Yes! The Swagman XC2 Bike Rack for 2 bikes Fits a 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon
Today, in our 2016 Subaru Outback Wagon, we have the Swagman XTC2 out. We're doing a test fit just to see how it fits on the back of the vehicle here. This is a platform-style two-bike rack. It's been designed so we can use it with the inch and a quarter, or with two inches. The part number on it is S64-650. You can see, the XTC2 is going to use a front-wheel cradle, a rear-wheel cradle, and also a frame hook to keep our bike nice and secure. The thing I really like about the wheel cradles is they're so easy to use.
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