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Yakima Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi everyone. Aiden here at E-trailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the Yakima Stage Two on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. The Stage Two is a platform style bike rack that holds a bike in these trays and primarily by the front tire. We've got our wheel hook that's holding the bike down and upright and in this cradle. it gets a really strong hold on the bike too, which I really like.



Yakima RidgeBack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Yakima Ridgeback on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. This is gonna be a hanging style bike rack that holds a bike by the frame. We've got it held in these cradles here with these two zip strips on top. That's gonna be the primary thing holding it down in place. And we've got a third one here on the seat post limiting that side to side movement.



Saris Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi everyone, Aidan here with etrailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the Saris SuperClamp HD on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. The SuperClamp is a platform style bike rack holding the bike in these cradles and primarily up by our tires here. That's gonna mean zero frame contact, making it good for carbon frame and alternative frame bikes. And it has a 60 pound weight capacity per bike making it good for e-bikes too. And this one gets an exceptionally strong hold on the bike.



Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi everyone, Aidan here at etrailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the Swagman XTC2 TILT on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. It's a platform style bike rack that holds the bike in these cradles, in these wheel hoops rather and by the frame here. Frame contact it's gonna mean we wanna avoid carbon frame bikes and we'll probably need a bike adapter bar with alternative frame bikes but otherwise it's gonna get a good strong hold on the bike and hold it really well. It's got a 35-pound weight capacity per bike, so as long as you're within those limits, you should be all good. Now I really like this one as an entry level platform rack.



Rhino Rack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi, everyone. Aidan here with etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Rhino-Rack hanging style bike rack on our 2018 Subaru Outback wagon. It's gonna be a hanging style bike rack that holds the bike up here by the frame. We've got two straps holding it down in the cradles. And the third strap are on the seatpost, limiting our side to side movement, which is gonna help with bike to bike contact.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a look at the Kuat Piston Pro X 2-bike rack on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. It's gonna be a platform-style bike rack that holds the bike in these trays and primarily by the tires. That's gonna mean zero frame contact, making it good for our carbon frame bikes, alternative frame bikes, and with a 67 pound weight capacity per bike, good for e-bikes too. This is gonna hold the bike pretty well, too. I really like it because it's got a lot of premium features on here that make usability really nice, the biggest of all being the integrated pistons.



Inno Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi, everyone. Aiden here with etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Inno Tire Hold on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon. The tire hold is a platform style bike rack that, like the name suggests, hold the bike by the tires. We're gonna have two of these wheel hoops that create zero frame contact on our bike, making it good for carbon frame, alternative frame, and the 60 pound weight capacity per bike, also good for our E-bikes. I'm a huge fan of this design of bike rack where you've got the two arms holding the wheels, because it's just really easy to load and unload.



Hollywood Racks Destination E Bike Rack Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hi, everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer, and today, we're taking a look at the Hollywood Racks Destination E two-bike platform rack and how it fits on the 2018 Subaru Outback. So this is one of my favorite bike racks for electric bikes. It does have, or require a little bit more work and a little bit more time to get your bikes on there and to use the rack, but it makes up for it with the great weight capacity, the almost-90-degree tilt and the included ramp. So we'll talk about those features, just enough to talk about the Subaru Outback. If you want more specs and measurements, don't forget to check out the full review. Where this first impressed me was the tilt-away feature.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon KU77FR

What's up everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're been checking out the Kuat Transfer V2 four bike bike rack on our 2018 Subaru Outback. Now this is gonna be a platform style bike rack. So, the bike sits up on this platform and it's gonna have a tire hold hook up there at that side and then a wheel strap on this side. There's gonna be no frame contact.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon SH12B

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're gonna be checking out the Kuat Sherpa 2.0 platform style bike rack. Kuat seems to always kind of give you a couple options as far as, you know, the style of the rack and what I mean by that is the color combination. So this one's available in three different colors and you know, it's just nice to have a couple to pick from, you know, that way you can grab the one that you like the best or one that matches your car the best, whatever the case may be. So first impression of the rack on the back of the Subaru, I actually think it looks really good. I really like how it's kind of a compact design.



etrailer Tilting 4 Bike Rack Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hey everybody. Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2018 Subaru Outback wagon, we're gonna be checking out the etrailer.com hitch-mounted bike rack. First impressions, the rack on the back of the Subaru, is I think it looks pretty good. It's really simple and kind of adds to the adventurous look that the Outback already has. But with that said, you know, it's gonna be a great, easy way to get your bikes to and from the trails.



Hollywood Racks Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hey, everybody. Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback wagon, we're gonna be checking out the Hollywood Destination platform-style bike rack. First impressions of the rack on the back of the Subaru, I think it's big. You know, it takes up quite a bit of space back here but, you know, that's kind of inevitable whenever you can carry up to four bikes. There's just kinda no way around it.



Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon S64650

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2018 Subaru Outback, we're gonna be checking out the Swagman XC2 platform-style bike rack. So, first impressions of the rack on the back of our Subaru, I think it's gonna be a super simple and economical way to carry around a couple of bikes. You know, this rack can hold up to two. And one of the things that I like about it is the fact that it's really basic. Okay, it's super straightforward.



Curt Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2018 Subaru Outback, we're going to be checking out the Curt premium hitch-mounted bike rack. So one of the big questions that we get asked all the time in regards to a hitch-mounted bike racks is if you're still going to be able to get into the back of your Subaru. And the answer is yes, with this one, it does fold down out of the way. And one of the few little things that we need to do, we turn this T handle, just back that off a little bit, pull out this pin here. Well, you have to remove the clip first and get that pin pulled out.



Hollywood Racks Over-the-Top Trunk Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback we're going to be doing a test-fit on the Hollywood racks over the top two bike carrier. And that part number is HRF2. This bike rack is specifically designed for vehicles that have these spoilers at the top of their hatch so that it can prevent any type of damage from occurring.As you can see the connection points for straps from the bike rack to the top of the hatch isn't adding on any extra weight or pull onto the spoilers, which is going to help protect it from any type of damage. Seeing our bike installed right here we're going to see it secured at three different points of contact.We have two straps on the top of our frame and we have this anti-sway strap securing it into this cradle. Once that's secured, that's going to prevent the bike from swaying too much while we're traveling and prevent the bike from making contact with the rear of our vehicle or with the other bike we could have installed.Let's go ahead and remove it. I'm going to just remove these straps like that.



RockyMounts Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're going to be test fitting the RockyMounts MonoRail Solo 1 Bike Platform Rack for 1-1/4 and 2" Hitches, part number RKY10007.We already have a bike installed on our rack. Let's go ahead and take a closer look here. This carries up to one bike, and like most platform-style racks, this does tilt away from the vehicle so we can gain better hatch access. You can see there's no issue of clearance between the bike and the hatch itself, and there's plenty of space between the bike rack and the bumper to get what you need.To put the bike rack back in its original position, just push up on the bike rack itself until you hear it click. It does come with an anti-theft cable here to wrap around the bike's frame, and it attaches to the bike rack itself here with the included lock, and this is keyed alike with the hitch lock, which we'll get to a little bit later. Let's go ahead and take that off.



RockyMounts Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon RKY10007-05

Speaker 1: Today we're on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're gonna be test fitting the Rocky Mounts Monorail Solo 2 Bike Platform Rack for inch, and a quarter inch two inch hitches, part number RKY10007-05.We already have a bike installed on the rack, let's go and take a closer look here. And one of the more interesting things about this bike rack is you can split it up into a single bike rack by removing the two screws on either side here and pulling this back section out. Like with the other platform style racks, this can tilt away from the vehicle with both bikes attached to gain rear hatch access, although the handle is pretty far forward here, so if you had two bikes on here, it might be a little difficult to do this on your own. You may need an extra set of hands, but for today's purposes, you can just pull towards us and let the bike rack come down holding onto the bike rack.Now you can see, we have plenty of space in between the bike and the hatch itself and we have enough space in between the bike rack and the bumper to get what we need as well.To put it back in it's original position, you simply lift up on the bike rack itself until you hear that click. It does come with an anti-theft cable here that you wrap around the frame of your bike and it gets attached to a point just underneath the front platform here and there is a lock that comes with that and it is key to like with the hitch lock which we'll get to a little bit later.So, let's go ahead and take the bike off and set it aside. We'll grab our key here for the lock, remove our cable.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback wagon we're taking a look at the Kuat NV 2.0. This is a two bike platform style rack, this has been designed for use in two inch by two inch hitches. The part number on it NV22G. Now there are several options available in colors and sizes for the NV, this is the gunmetal gray and orange, we also have it in the metallic black, two bike like what we have here or four bike. For those of you with the inch and a quarter hitches we have it available in the gunmetal gray and orange and metallic black limited to the two bike version only.Now the biggest benefit we get out of the envy here is gonna be the access that we can gain into the rear of the vehicle. Some platform style racks don't have quite this much tilt feature which a lot of times run into interference as we're opening our door but you can see we've got plenty of clearance here with the Subaru, allows us to get anything in or out of the back that we might want.



Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon, we're taking a look at the Thule T2 Pro XTB. This is a platform-style two bike rack. It's been designed for use in 2 inch hitches. The part number on it is TH9034XT. Now, this rack's going to give you an excellent solution for just about any type of bike. It's been designed to work with road bikes, mountain bikes, even fat bikes.It's also a tilting-style rack.



Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2018 Subaru Outback Wagon TS02G

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Subaru Outback wagon we're test fitting the Kuat Transfer. Now this is a 2-bike platform-style rack designed to tilt away from your vehicle with or without bikes loaded. Part number on it is TS02G. These are also available in three-bike configurations, and if you prefer the color black, available in two bike or three bike black as well. Now the big benefit you get here going to be the tilt-away feature is really nice. Tilts the back out at a good angle from the rear of the vehicle.





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