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Yakima BackSwing Swing Away Hitch Extender for Bike Racks - 2" Hitches
Overall, I like the design and the build quality and the paint job. However Yakima should fix the following issues.. 1) the mounting/locking bolt is 23mm. Not a common size wrench people have laying around. They could have provided a crude wrench that fits this bolt. 2) secondly and more importantly the Jesus clip that fits over the pin that mounts the clasp flew off and bent when I operated the clasp. It happened a second time when I used the spare Jesus clip. The solution was to insert the pin in the opposite direction and install the clip on the opposite side. Still, there is a chance that the clasp could hit the Jesus clip on that side too, so I'll just have to be aware when operating the clasp to make sure this does not happen. I will probably come up with some type of spacer that centers the clasp buckle so that it clears the Jesus clip, I just haven't had time to look into it in any detail yet.
Solid, bullet proof, yet the convenient swing away allows unrestricted access to the back of my vehicle. It is heavy, but being made of steel, it holds a heavy load. I have an old solid steel Thule rack that I modified so that I can move the bike carrier bars 180 degrees - from the traditional position carrying the bikes away from the car and carrier, or flipped over so that the bike carriers rest on my spare and carry the bikes between the rack and the car. This allows me to carry very heavy bikes, such as e-bikes compactly without extending the length of my vehicle much, and still allowing me to use the swing away feature of the Yamaha extender. Photo shows a light road bike on the hitch, but it works equally as well with heavier or multiple bikes.
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Yakima EXO SwingBase Swing Away Hitch Extender - 2" Hitches
This is sobeasy to install! It only took me 20 minutes. This definitely gives me much needed storage space for my 2023 Thor Scope 18M
Stout and well executed. EASY to install. Could use some ergonomic tweaks (I’m 70), but overall is a very good value. We’ll see, cuz we haven’t gone 10K miles yet... etrailer rocks btw
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