Most Popular Roof Bike Racks for Honda Civic

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic

Today on our 2012 Honda Civic sedan, we'll be test fitting the Yakima front loader roof mounted wheel mount bike carrier, part number Y02103. Now with the roof rack system already on our vehicle, we'll start off our test fit by placing the carrier onto the vehicle's cross bars. In no specific order, we'll loosen up the back bracket and the front bracket to bring the back bracket around the rear cross bar and the front clamps around the front cross bar. We can then turn the black T handle at the rear of the carrier to secure the rear bracket to the rear cross bar, and turn the black T handle at the front of the carrier to tighten down the jaws on the front cross bar. Now that the carrier is secured to the cross bars, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll unfold the front part of the wheel mount and undo the tray strap.

Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic

Today on our 2012 Honda Civic sedan well be test fitting the Yakima Forklift roof mounted bike carrier, part number Y02098. To begin our test fit well simply place the carrier onto the vehicles cross bars and in no specific order loosen up the front bracket as well as the rear bracket to bring the brackets around the underside of the front and rear crossbar. Youll want to make sure that the bike carrier is perpendicular to the vehicles crossbars to ensure that the brackets fit correctly on the crossbars. Once weve established this position we can then tighten down the black T handle at the rear of the carrier to secure the rear crossbar to the vehicle, as well as tightening down the black T handle at the front of the carrier to secure the front of the carrier to the front of the crossbar, that when loosening up or tightening the black T handle, you may need to remove a skewer from the head of the carrier in order to remove the front black plastic safety cap. Once we have the carrier secured to the vehicles crossbars were ready to load up our bike. Well loosen up the skewer at the front of the carrier and move to the rear of the carrier and undo the tray strap.

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic

Today on our 2012 Honda Civic, well be test fitting the Swagman Forkdown roof mounted bike carrier, part number S64710. To mount our carrier up on our vehicle, well set it in place on top of our load bars. At the head of the bike carrier well feed our U-bolts up from the bottom, below our crossbar, and through the plate at the head of the bike rack. Then well use the wing nuts to tighten them down. At the rear, well fit the U-bolt through the top of the bike rack, around our rear load bar. Well fit the clamp from the bottom side, and tighten it down again with wing nuts.

Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic

Today on our 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid, we're going to be test fitting part number TH513, the Thule Domestique Fork-Mount Bike Carrier. Now, our vehicle is already equipped with the Thule Rapid Aero Roof Rack System so we're ready to go ahead and fit our bike rack to the vehicle. To begin, we'll set the bike rack on top of the crossbars. We'll place the head of the bike rack directly over the front crossbar. We can then bring the clamping device underneath the crossbar and tighten it down using the Allen wrench included within the bike rack. We'll then move to the back mount while we'll bring the clamp underneath the rear crossbar and clamp it down again using the included Allen wrench.

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic

Today on our 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid, we will be test fitting the Rocky mounts Tierod roof mounted bike carrier part no RKY1014. Now we've already removed the bike rack head cover so we will set the head over the front crossbar and bring the rubber coated steel straps underneath and resecuring them to the head of the bike rack. We can them move to the rear mount where we will bring the clamp underneath the rear bar and tighten it down with the wing nuts provided with our bike rack and with our rear mounts tight we can go ahead and move back to the head of the bike rack and tighten it down using the Allen Key tool included with the bike rack. Once that is tighten out we can reinstall our bike rack head and cover and we're almost ready to load our bike. We will simply make sure the skewer is out and centered and that our rear wheel strap is undone and out of the way. We will then place our bike on top of our bike carrier we will put the front fork into the skewer and tighten it down.

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Rate your transcript OrderClientKevin BrossRef #20519Order #TC1048317425 Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we're going to be test-fitting the Kuat Trio. This is a roof mount fork-clamp bike rack in the black and chrome. Its part number is TR02.We've got the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System already installed on our Civic so we're going to being our test-fit by placing the rack directly up onto our crossbars. We're going to take one of the two black rubber-coated metal u-bolts. We'll place it up here at the head of the carrier and then we're going to thread on two of our cylinder nuts.One of the cylinder nut is going to have a hex head. The other side is threaded.

Thule Sprint Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we're going to be test fitting the Thule Sprint. This is a roof rack mounted fork clamp style bike rack. It's part number is TH528. We've got the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System that we've already installed on the Civic, so we'll begin our test fit by placing the rack right up onto our crossbars. As we do this, we want to make sure that the black rubber coated metal straps on each clamp go around the underside of our bars and that the top of our clamps are sitting right on top of the crossbars. We'll then bring those metal coated straps, or the rubber coated metal straps rather, around the underside, fit them into the indentations and then tighten the black levers here on the rear. For the initial tightening process, having them straight out is going to be the quickest way to take up the slack and then you'll cam them over into a lever position to give you a little more torque. With the front nice and secure, we'll move to the rear and essentially we're going to repeat that exact same process.

Swagman Upright Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Upright, this is a frame clamp style roof bike rack with part number S64720. We've already got the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack system installed on the Civic so we'll begin our test fit by placing our bike rack right up onto our crossbars. Here at the front, we're going to bring a U-bolt around the underside of the crossbar and fit up through the head of the carrier and then we'll thread on two wing nuts. We're just going to do these loosely for now to give us a little bit of room to position our rack, we're going to put a second U-bolt through the other side here and we just want to have a little bit of play so we can move it forward and back if we need to. All right, take our wing nuts thread them on this U-bolt as well. I've taken a quick look underneath the rack here just to make sure that our U-bolts are spaced about the same and everything looks square. We'll go ahead and tighten all four of them down. All right with the front secure, let's move to the rear.

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Front Loader. This is a wheel clamp style roof mounted bike rack, it's part number is Y02103. We've already got the Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System installed on our Civic, so we'll begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly up onto our cross bars. Here at the front, we'll have the two outside portions of our clamp on the front side and the one middle portion of our clamp will be on the back side of our crossbar. Bring that down and over. You can let the rack sit there in the middle and tighten it, it will automatically center, but to make it a little easier on us, I like to pull back on it, so that the front portion of the clamps are right up against that bar. We'll then tighten down the black T handle, bringing the rear portion of our clamp up to meet our bar and then tighten that right down. With our front secure, we can now move here to the rear.

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic ru01

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we're going to test fitting the Kuat Trio. This is a roof mounted, fork clamp bike rack. It comes in the orange and the gray. It's part numbers are RU01. Now, we've got the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System already installed on the Civic. So, we'll being the test fit by placing our bike rack directly up here on top of our load bars. At the front, we're going to have two rubber coated, metal U-bolts and we're going to have four cylinder nuts. We'll place one of the U-bolts around the underside of the crossbar, up through the head of the carrier, and then we'll thread on the two cylinder nuts.

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic well be test fitting the Swagman Forkdown roof mounted bike rack, part number s64710. Well begin our test fit by placing the bike rack onto the vehicles load bars. Well pull out our hardware and start up at the front. Well take our silver brackets to go on the underside of the front load bar and up through the predrilled holes at the front part of the bike rack. Well then thread on our black wing nuts and tighten it down. Well then go to the rear where this time well slide the silver bracket down through the predrilled holes of the bike rack and use the black plate to rest on the underside of the rear bar.

RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic we'll be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number rky1011. With the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System already assembled onto our vehicle we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack onto the vehicle's load bars. We'll then remove the black plastic cover at the front to bring the rubber-coated steel straps around the underside of the front bar hooking them into the connection points. We'll then move to the rear and remove one Allen bolt to bring the rear bracket around the underside of the rear load bar tightening back down with a wrench. We'll then move back to the front using the included Allen key to turn the silver bolt to tighten down the rubber-coated steel straps up against the bar. With everything all tightened down and secured we're ready to load up our bike.

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Today on our 2009 Honda Civic we'll be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number rky1014. Now our vehicle is already equipped with the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System so we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's crossbars. We'll then remove the black plastic cover at the front of the bike rack to bring the rubber coated steel straps around the underside of the front bar and hook them into the connection points. We'll then move to the rear and loosen up one of the Allen bolts to bring the rear bracket around the underside of the rear bar. We'll then thread the Allen bolt back through the bottom part of the bracket and tighten down with a wrench. With the rear part tightened down we'll move back up to the front and use the included Allen key to tighten the silver bolt to tighten down the front straps.

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2007 Honda Civic

Today, we have a 2007 Honda Civic Sedan and we're going to be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number RKY1014. To fit our bike carrier to our roof rack, we'll place it up on top of our load bars. We'll fit the rubber coated steel straps at the front of the bike rack around our front load bar, re-secure them to the head and tighten them down with an Allen key. Once we've done that, we can move to the rear of the bike rack, fit the clamp around the rear bar and use the included wing nuts to tighten them down. Next, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll make sure the front cover is installed properly on the head.

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2007 Honda Civic

Today, we have with us a 2007 Honda Civic Sedan and we're going to be test fitting the Yakima FrontLoader Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number Y02103. To mount the FrontLoader up on top of our crossbars, we'll set it into place, fitting the front clamp around the front bar and the rear clamp around the rear bar. We'll use the included hand knob to tighten down the front clamp and then we'll use the T-bolt and wing nut to tighten down the rear clamp. With both clamps tightened, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll open up the top wheel hoop at the front of the bike rack and make sure that our wheel strap is open at the rear. We'll pick up our bike, set it into place, and bring the rear wheel hoop up to the back of the tire and tighten that with our hand knob.

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2007 Honda Civic

Today, we have with us a 2007 Honda Civic Sedan and we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number S64710. We've already got our bike rack assembled and now we're ready to mount it up on top of our vehicle. We're going to set the bike rack on top of our load bars. We'll take the U-bolts and fit them around the front load bar and out through the head of the bike rack. We'll use the wing nuts to tighten those down. We'll take the U-bolt for the rear, feed it down through the top of the bike rack and use a clamp on the other side and, again, use the wing nuts to tighten it around our rear bar.