Best 2017 Jeep Cherokee Bike Racks

Yakima Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Hey everybody, welcome to etrailer.com. I'm Bobby, and today we're taking a look at the Yakima Back Road 4 Bike Rack Carrier, here on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee. Now if you're looking a way of getting a multitude of bikes to the trailhead, hanging styles are definitely gonna be a great option for yourself. Things to keep in mind though, we are gonna start seeing a lot more sway on our bikes because we're only having these dual arm support system which is gonna do a really good job of making sure our bike isn't tilting side to side but because of our frame mounts and our frame is circular you are gonna get just a little bit of sway as we are go down the road. Now the BackRoad does have a lot of techniques to combat that sway. The biggest one being for me is we are getting seven inch spreads on each of our channel mounts here.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Hey everybody, welcome to etrailer.com. I'm Bobby, and today we're taking a look at the Hollywood Racks Destination 4 Bike Rack Carrier here on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee. Now if you're looking a way of getting a host of bikes through the trails with you, this can be a great option. Right outta the gate, this is gonna be a platform style rack and you are getting four bikes on there. Couple of immediate advantages, if you're looking at some differences, hanging style is gonna be a great way to start accessing four bikes. However, you are gonna start running into a lot of issues with those bikes running into each other as they are gonna be kinda swaying back and forth on those coasts.

Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

What's going on, everybody Adam here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the Thule T2 Pro on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee. So, if you're looking for a really solid platform-style rack to get two bikes to and fro, this is gonna be a good one. It looks good and it's nice and solid, but we will be able to add on to this, and make it a four-bike rack. Currently, it's about 60 pounds per bike, but if we do have that add-on, it's gonna be about 40 pounds per bike. But as it is right now, we can use our fat tire bikes and e-bikes, because of the weight capacity.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee HR1400Z

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we'll be doing a test fit on the Hollywood Rack Sport Rider SE four by platform rack. Part number HR1400Z. I wanna start by showing you one of it's best functions. You first push on this pin here, then you pull the pin out and then pull the secondary pin and you can tilt it down. Now you can do this with all four bikes on the rack. This allows you to open your rear hatch and get anything that you might need to get out.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee HR200Z

Speaker 1: Today in our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we'll be doing a test fit on the Hollywood Racks Trail Rider two bike platform rack, part number HR2000Z. Now with the bike installed, let's take a closer look and show off some of the features. To start, our wheel trays can adjust, just by loosening and tightening this knob. We can loosen it up, adjust it to whatever our bikes length might be, and then tighten it back down, like so. It's going to be able to accommodate many different lengths of bikes.We have three different points where our bike is secured. We have a hook and loop strap on the back wheel right here, and we also have the same thing on this front wheel, both two points.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee HR200Z-FB

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're going to be doing a test fit on the Hollywood Racks Trailrider two-bike platform rack for fat tire bikes, part number HR200Z-FB. This bike rack is able to hold your fat tire bikes up to five inches wide. And you're also going to get the standard size wheel trays, which will hold bike tires up to three inches wide. You just have to remove and replace them due to whatever bikes you want to have that day. As for the bike itself, we have three different points where it's secured. We have a hook and loop strap on the front tire and we also have another one on the back tire back here.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee HR1000Z

Speaker 1: Today in our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're gonna be doing a test fit on the Hollywood Racks Sport Rider 2 2-Bike Platform Rack, part number HR1000Z. Now, if we look, we have a bike installed. Let's take a closer look and show off some of the features.To start, like most platform racks, this can tilt away to provide access to your trunk. Wanna come and remove both of these pin clips real quick. You let them hang on their wires. This second pin I'm removing is the safety pin, which is just providing support.

Yakima RidgeBack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we'll be talking about the Yakima RidgeBack, part number Y02457. First I'd like to start talking about the Yakima RidgeBack ZipStrips that you use to secure the bike to the bike rack. You just simply press on these two tabs, pull the ZipStrip, and it's that easy. Now down here we have the ZipStrip that is attached to our anti-sway cradle which allows our bike to be a lot sturdier when in travel. We'll remove our bike. I like to replace the ZipStrips so they don't get lost or damaged.

Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee hr1450z

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we'll be doing a test fit on a Hollywood Racks Sport Rider SE2 2-bike platform rack, part number HR1450Z. The first feature I'd like to show you on this bike rack is its tilt feature. You'll start by pulling this pin on the bottom, lift up on the front, pull this other latch, and let the bike rack down. Now what's nice about this is you can let your bike down what it on. In order to get into the back of your vehicle you just step behind the bike and get into your vehicle for whatever you might need. Just lift up till the pin latches back in.

Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test fit of the Swagman G10, platform style, 2-bike rack. That part number is S64682. Now 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 around behind both of our mounting points, and we're going to lift up on the lever, and tilt our bike rack away from our vehicle. We can do this with our bikes fully loaded.

Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee S64683

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Swagman Chinook platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is S64683. Now 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 to our lever. We'll pull up on the lever and tilt our bike rack down away from our vehicle.

RockyMounts Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Speaker 1: Today, on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test-fit of the RockyMounts Monorail Platform-Style 2-Bike Rack, that part number is: RKY10004. Now, 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 to our conveniently placed handle here at the back. We're just going to pull out, and we'll tilt our bike rack away from our vehicle with our bikes fully loaded. In this position, we'll check our back hatch clearance. You'll see we have plenty of room to open up our hatch and get anything in or out that we may need.

Saris Freedom-SuperClamp Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2007 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Saris Freedom SuperClamp platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is SA4025-FB. Now we already have our bike secured down here. We're first going to show you one of the key features of this rack. We're going to come to the bottom here and we're going to pull out on our lever and we can tilt our rack away from our vehicle. In this position we are going to have full access into our back hatch area to get anything in or out that we may need.

Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee S64650

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Swagman XT platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is S64650. Now we already have our bike secured in place. We're going to go over how we do that first. At the front and back tire we have wheel cradles. Then at the top we have our frame hook. This is going to be a padded frame hook that holds our bike down into those wheel cradles without the need of extra straps.

Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Thule DoubleTrack Pro platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is TH9054. Now we already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you how we secure it in place. Here at the back tire we have a cam buckle strap. We're going to have the same thing at the front.

Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee TH9034XT

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Thule T2 Pro XTV Platform Style 2 Bike Rack. That part number is TH9034XT. Now 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 come here to the back handle, and we're going to squeeze that together. That's going to allow us to tilt our bike rack away from our vehicle with our bikes fully loaded. In this position we are going to gain full access into our back hatch area to get anything in our out that we may need.

Curt Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test fit of the CURT platform style four bike rack. That part number is C18086. We already have our bike secured down. I'm first going to show you one of the key features of this rack. We're going to come to the middle here, and we're going to start by removing our pin and clips. We'll start with our smaller one, then we'll remove the larger of the two. Then we can tilt our bike rack down, away from our vehicle.

RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today, on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test fit of the Rocky Mounts JetLine Roof Mounted Bike Rack. That part number is RKY1320. We already have our bike secured down, we're first going to show you how we do that. Here at the back, we have a cam buckle strap. That's quick and easy to remove and it adjusts up and down the length of our bike rack to accommodate different bikes. Here at the front, we have a skewer. This does have the option to put a lock on it, and then at the side we'll have that hook that needs to sit in front of our fork whenever we have that secured down.

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test fit on the Thule ThruRide roof-mounted bike rack. That part number is TH535. Now we already have our bike secured down. I'm first going to show you how we do that. Here at the back, we have a cam-buckle strap. It's going to be quick and easy to remove.

Swagman XTC4 Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Swagman XTC4 platform-style 4-bike rack. That part number is S64665. Now we already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you how we do that. At our front and back tire we have these rubber straps that are going to hold our tire into place. We'll simply pull down and lift up to release those.

Inno Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Inno Aero Light QM Platform Style 2-Bike Rack. That part number is INH330. 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 around to the backside and we're going to remove the pin and clip, or the pin rather. We'll just pull that out. Another nice thing about this rack is that whenever we pull the pin out we actually have to tilt the bike rack away, so it's going to stay in place. We won't have to worry about that falling immediately into this position once we've taken that pin out.

Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee S64684

Today on our 2007 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Swagman Dispatch platform-style 2-bike rack. That part number is S64684. Now we already have our bike secured down. We're first going to show you how we do that. At the front and back tire we have two wheel cradles with some cam buckle straps. Those are quick and easy to remove.

Hollywood Racks Sport-Rider-SE Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're going a test fit of Hollywood Racks Sport Rider SE, Platform Style Four Bike Rack. Part number is HR1400. We already have our bikes secured down. We're first going to show you one of the key features of this rack. That's going to be our tilting feature. We're going to come here and remove our pin and clip.

Pro Series Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today on our 2017 Jeep Cherokee we're doing a test fit of the Pro-Series Q-Slot platform-style two and four-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. We're also going to take some measurements on our bike rack and we're going to do it as a two and as the four-bike rack. You can see we have our bike secured down.

Softride Element-Parallelogram Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2017 Jeep Cherokee

Today in our 2017 Jeep Cherokee, we're doing a test fit of the Softride Element Parallelogram Hanging Style 4-Bike Rack. That part number is SR26248. Now 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 come here to the side and pull out on our black T-pin, and we're actually going to be able to tilt this bike rack away from our vehicle with our bikes fully loaded. We gain full access into our back hatch.