Perfect for e-bikes or regular bikes with fenders, this 3-bike rack uses pivoting hooks with straps to secure your bike's front wheels. The front-mounted handle lets you tilt the rack to access your cargo area without removing your bikes.
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The RockyMounts HighNoon FC carries 3 bikes; however, the front position can be removed so there's less of a load on you and your vehicle if only 2 people are going riding. When it's not needed, simply remove the front section with the included Allen key and throw it in your trunk or leave it at home.
The RockyMounts HighNoon FC has ratcheting hooks with a stabilizer strap that grab your bikes firmly by the front wheels, not the frames or the fenders. It's perfect for carrying e-bikes with fenders, carbon bikes, or bikes with a custom paint job. To load your bikes, simply place the front wheels in the cradles, rotate the arms up and over the wheels, press down firmly on the ratcheting hooks, and wrap the straps around the wheels below the fender. The front wheel cradles also have stabilizer straps to further secure your bikes to the rack.
The rear wheel cradles accommodate a wide variety of bike wheelbases. They pivot front to back, adjusting automatically to each bike's wheelbase so there's no need for sliding and tightening. Secure the wheels in place with the built-in ratcheting strap. The straps also include extenders for use with fat bikes.
The trays are tiered, so your bikes sit at different levels. This extra spacing helps prevent the handlebars from bumping into each other or getting tangled. It also provides extra ground clearance for backing down steep driveways.
The trays also adjust 3" side-to-side to ensure you have enough space when loading your bikes. Just remove the bolts where the tray attaches to the bottom of the rack, slide the trays left or right to achieve the desired spacing, and then reinstall the bolts.
The rack tilts down with your bikes loaded. So, whether you're at the trail or the grocery store, you don't have to remove your bikes to access your cargo area. It also folds up when not in use. This leaves a smaller footprint, so you can keep the rack on your vehicle to park in your garage. And if you want to remove it, it doesn't take up as much space to store it.
To make tilting and folding easier, the handle is mounted on the front of the rack. This means you won't have to reach through or around your bikes with one hand to reach the handle, while supporting the rack's weight with the other, when lowering the rack. Instead, you'll be able to hold the rack with both hands the entire time.
The rack installs with a threaded, anti-rattle hitch pin. Simply slide the shank into your 2" hitch receiver, insert the threaded hitch pin, and tighten it down with the included tool. This will reduce noise and movement while the rack is installed.
The included locks secure your bikes to the rack and the rack to your vehicle. The integrated cable lock threads around your bikes' frames and secures to the pivot bolt on the base of the rack.
The hitch lock simply snaps onto the hitch pin. The cable and hitch lock are keyed alike, so you'll only need 1 key for both locks.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the RockyMounts HighNoon FC platform-style bike rack and seeing how it fits on our 2023 Subaru Outback Wagon. Now this is gonna be a bike rack designed for bikes with fenders. I've got our front wheel hook set up kinda in the position that you'd have it if you had a front fender that maybe came out through about here. Now more often than not with a bike rack that uses a front wheel hook like this, you have to put it pretty much as close to the forks as it can go for maximum security.
And for bikes with fenders, that really doesn't work because then you're pressing down on the fender, putting pressure where it shouldn't be and not always getting a good hold. With this, you do retain the nice wheel hook so we're not making any frame contact, but it utilizes an extra strap underneath and down below to hold that front wheel captive and keep it from turning. So if you do have fenders on your bike and you're looking for an option that is compatible with that, this could be the way for you. Like I mentioned, there's no frame contact, so good for carbon frame and alternative frame bikes, and it does support a weight capacity of 45 pounds per bike if we're using all three slots here. If you're using just the first two, you can hold up to 60 pounds per bike.
So, good for some e-bikes. If you don't need the three-bike capacity, you can get this as a two-bike and just worry about that, and you don't have to worry about the three bikes. So you've got options there depending on how many bikes you need to carry with this if you like the design. Like many other platform racks in this class, you do have the ability to tilt away with bikes loaded. Down below, underneath the second tray, there's a handle.
So just pull that and lower the whole thing down. That will allow you to get access to the back of your vehicle, opening up the hatch on the Outback with plenty of clearance. Even our larger mountain bike here with the wider handlebars, no clearance issues and plenty of room to step back here to load up the back, maybe sit down, have a place to change your shoes before or after our ride, whatever we might need. One other thing I will point out with this as far as bike compatibility goes, it does support a maximum tire width of 5 inches. So if you have a fat tire bike, it's gonna work great on here as well.
You can just lift the rack up. (rack clicks) You'll hear a nice audible click, letting us know it's locked in place and good to go. And we can take this opportunity to get the bike unloaded. We'll start off with the back wheel strap. That's going to be a very traditional ratcheting strap, just pressing in on the button and pushing the strap out. We can then turn our attention to these extra rubber straps up at the front tire. First, doing the one on the bottom, and then doing the one at the top, which feeds through the wheel right here. And then with one hand on the bike, one hand on the arm, press the release lever, push up and out. Now with the three-bike, you do have to lean over quite a bit to get to this inner tray, but it's not too bad overall and you've got a fair amount of room to work. I'll set this to the side, and we can take a closer look at the rack itself. One of the things I like about it is the fact that most of these straps have a good place to store up, so they're not freely moving around. This one can just store back on itself, and we can put this wheel hook down. This front cradle will fold up, and this bottom strap can actually rotate back to this side, where it just extends across to that post nice and out of the way. And then we can check out the back wheel cradle here, which does pivot back and forth to accommodate for different wheel bases up to 50 inches. So you get a lot of adjustability with your bikes here. Other terms of adjustability are gonna be the trays. So you can see, they stack up and are varied heights. As you go to the back, they start to get higher and higher. This helps with bike-to-bike contact, but also gives us a much better ground clearance. At the back end of our Outback, the lowest point of the rack is gonna sit 27 inches from the ground, which is more than enough, I think, for most applications. Even if you're going, maybe doing some mild off-roading, then I think you're gonna be just fine. It does add a fair bit of length in the back of your Outback, though. From the bumper to the end of the rack, coming in at 43 inches. It does stick out a fair bit. So if you're driving around with this fully loaded, just be mindful that it's back there when you're backing out or just parking parking spots. You can save some of that space, though. If you wanna leave it in the hitch between rides, pull that same lever we used before to tilt it away and we can use that to fold it up. That's gonna save a lot of space. Now only sticking out 13 inches from the bumper. This makes it way more compact for things, like your garage at home, your driveway, or parking lots. It doesn't sit too close to the bumper either. I'd say the closest point is probably right here, coming in at 4 inches of space, so there's more than enough room to not worry about vehicle contact, and it's also a solid rack, so I'm not too worried about it there either. Working our way down, we'll notice that we've got a locking point right here for the cable lock, and at the hitch, it's working with our 2" x 2" receiver tube. The anti-rattle bolt is going to keep it nice and solid in that receiver tube, and it's a locking anti-rattle bolt so we don't feel worry about people messing with it when we're not around. And overall, I think it's gonna be a really solid bike rack. If you don't have any need for the extra support for bikes with fenders, I'd maybe check out something like the RockyMounts MonoRail or even the RockyMounts GuideRail, with the GuideRail being maybe the nicer of the two. Definitely some nice features with that one and really solid construction. But the MonoRail is gonna be a really solid option too. Whichever way you go, I think it's gonna be a really solid fit on the 2023 Subaru Outback Wagon. Thanks for watching.
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