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Quickly load up bikes for the whole crew with the ReVert vertical rack. Tilts with the tap of a lever, making loading bikes or accessing your cargo area almost effortless. Automatically raises back up with a simple nudge. No lifting required!
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Note: Vertical bike racks put more strain on your hitch than platform or hanging styles. Because of this, the rack isnt compatible with Class III hitches that have a tongue weight rating under 500 lbs. Avoid using extenders or adapters, as they can further reduce your hitchs capacity.
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Hey everyone, I'm Evangeline right here at etrailer. Today we're taking a look at how the Thule Revert six bike vertical bike rack fits on our 2023 Toyota Highlander. If you are looking to carry your whole crew and all of your bikes, this is gonna be a pretty good bike rack for you. So instead of going out like some platform racks do, this one goes up. So while it looks like it's a lot, it actually has some features in there to make it a lot easier to carry multiple bikes. The main unique one being the gas strut feature.
So we're gonna take a look at how it fits here on our Highlander. We're gonna start with this in the down position so we can load our bike up. Now a lot of people will tilt their bike racks away if they wanna open up their hatch, which is something you can do here. But something this will also help out with is if you need to load and unload your bikes because bringing it tilted down like this makes that process a lot easier. So imagine you and all of your friends have your bikes and all you do is lift the bike up.
What I recommend doing is using your hip or your leg to support the seat of the bike. Or you could just kinda walk the bike up and over and then that tilts to the side and then that rear wheel goes into the rear wheel cradle. If you are loading multiple bikes go from left to right. If you are loading less than six bikes, try to get it evenly distributed, heaviest bikes in the middle, lighter bikes out towards the side. Remember to secure your front wheels with the included straps.
These go up and over your rim and then they secure down into the top in the back. Same goes with the rear wheel strap that goes around the rim and back into the top that it was attached to. You can let all six of your bikes hang off of the bike rack in this position, especially if you need to get something from the hatch. You can see here the hatch door opens up with plenty of clearance between the door and the bike rack. So if you have helmets back here or you like to switch out your shoes, things like that, you can do all of that without having to take your bikes off.
So all that clearance is really helpful. Now, let's talk about loading up the bikes. With a lot of bikes on here, that's gonna be a lot of weight. And many times for the racks, you're gonna have to lift that weight yourself. A good thing with having a (indistinct) on this bike rack is it lifts a little bit of the weight for you. Now we only have one bike weighing this down, so it's gonna come up with a fair amount of pressure. I'm gonna hold on real quick. All I'm gonna do is press down on this lever, that (indistinct) engages and we're up and ready. There's gonna be a pin on the side, so make sure to secure that before you drive away. But just like that, bike is loaded, up, ready to go. With the Thule vertical bike rack, it definitely goes up in height. Now the length added to the back of the vehicle, I'm not as concerned about. That's gonna be more on the size or dimensions of your bike. The height added to the Highlander though, that's definitely something worth thinking about because see this top arm here That's about the same height as your rear spoiler. So your tires are gonna sit higher than your vehicle actually sits. So double check your garage door clearance. If your garage door goes about as high as your Highlander, you might need to adjust that to go even higher if you want to park your vehicle with your bikes loaded. With that being said, look at how visible the rest of our vehicle is. So on the Highlander, you're gonna have pretty good visibility through your rear window. Your taillights are visible, your backup camera is offset, so it's right past the mast. I'm not worried about it. Your license plate is kind of covered, but also mainly visible as well. That's gonna be the perk of this style of a rack. When you don't have bikes loaded, you're gonna have a lot of visibility. Once you have your bikes on there, that may change. All the bikes loaded as well as the bike rack is gonna add a lot of weight onto your hitch receiver. In fact, you can carry up to 55 pound bikes with this rack. So with that in mind, we actually installed this trailer hitch on our Highlander today, and if you don't yet have a hitch receiver, you can get a custom fit hitch. We actually installed wiring as well, all made for this vehicle. You can always give us a call or ask us if you need just confirmation that you're getting the correct custom fit for your Highlander. We can always help you out with that. And this is gonna have a lot of weight capacity that will allow carrying of this heavy bike rack as well as the heavy bikes. The Toyota Highlander is a great vehicle. You have that third row, you can bring all of your friends, all of your family, and with this bike rack, all of your bikes. Now, six bike racks that have a high weight capacity, you don't actually have that many options out there. And with that being said, the Thule Revert is a great option. Really good construction, good versatility for types of bikes you can carry. If you're curious about any of those functions, check out our full review right here at etrailer. But if you wanted to see how it fits on your vehicle, well you saw it right here. This is a look at the Thule Revert, six bike vertical bike rack on the 2023 Toyota Highlander.
solid rack at a good price. I bought this instead of a 4 bike platform rack to minimize the torque on my car. E trailers shipping was fast and free.
This is the Rack to get if you want a verticals bike rack. There are several other racks on the market that have similar functionality. I would say what sets this apart is as follows.
1- packaging. Thule does the best Job packaging their items, I had recently purchased another vertical rack and it was slightly damaged because a large heavy metal rack can bang around if not packed correctly. This Rack had come packed very well and no damage to any items, as you would want it when purchasing a new item that is being shipped to you.
2- assist function both up and down. Other racks have assisted function down or none at all. This rack has assistance both ways and if you have 3 bikes on the rack, one pull on the lever and the rack pull it up for you.
3- ease of assembly. Assembly of this rack was probably one of the easiest things out there. Just watch the assembly video and you should be done with in an hour with absolutely no rush.
4- hitch stability. The rack comes with an adjustable hitch wedge built in and it makes a huge difference. No need for a hitch stabilizer to be bolted on. The attached hitch pin and adjustable wedge make this very solid and stable when transporting your bikes.
Lastly, honestly think about the cost in comparison to other racks. It may cost just a few hundred more, but the assurance that you have thousands of dollars of bikes on the rack that are safe is well worth it.
This is a fantastic rack. Look up on YouTube for other people comparing other racks like the Velocirack or JB Rack (I bought the JB one and it was a mistake, thin steel and not even close to as stable. Steel bent with assembly and flexed when transporting bikes). When I purchased the Thule revert the comparison to the other vertical rack was night and day. Expensive mistake but at least now you know.
I watched the e trailer video on assembly which made putting it together a breeze. The rack does all the things I was hoping for. It has all the little niceties dialed so raising, lowering, loading, and unloading my heavy eMTBs is no problem. A very well built rack!
Expensive but totally worth it. Easy enough for my wife to load bikes on the rack.
We previously owned a Thule XTR 4-bike platform rack and thought it was the fastest to load and unload compared to other 4+ bike racks. This is from seeing other folks loading their bikes on trails. Not until we got Thule Revert, which is by far the easiest and fastest to load and unload. The assist is a game changer, even though it makes it hard to lower an empty rack to access the rear hatch. The angled stem helps avoid hitting rockes and clear uneven terrain on a lower clearance vehicle. The thick rubber bands are super fast to put on and off. The height is just right to simply roll bikes into baskets without lifting. Make sure to get a torque wrench and follow correct torque specifications.
Useful rack, easy to tilt up and down.
I'm using a Hollywood rack valet to hold it when off the vehicle with a motorcycle cover.
Ordered for a friend. So far, they love it!
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3/31/2025
We'd love to see a photo of you whole set up if you ever feel like sending one in the next time you're geared up to hit the road :)