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Swagman Upright Bike Rack for 1 Bike - Roof Rack Crossbars - Frame Mount
Planning on bringing bikes while camping. I mounted 2 of the Swagman bike racks to my new Sportrack on my pop-up camper. The bikes fit perfectly. The racks seem sturdy enough. Not heavy duty, but for my needs they should be fine. Assembly was relatively fast and easy.
We have used the Swagman Roof Rack a number of times when we have needed the additional bike carrying capacity. It took a couple attempts to get the initial spacing of the bike rack properly balanced on the van’s roof rack as recommended by the instructions. But it was easy to do and once set was very easy and quick to put on and take off. The rack works great, the bike is easy to put into place and secure. The bike and rack are very stable and quiet and haven’t required any mid-trip adjustments. We always put the cheapest bike on the roof (lol) but do use a bit of duct tape to protect the finish just Incase. We are very satisfied with the rack and consider it quite a deal for the money.
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Yakima FrontLoader Wheel Mount Bike Carrier - Roof Mount
Overall I am happy with these bike carriers. They mount to the racks over the bed of my Tundra TRD Pro. Installation is simple. I think they could be just a bit sturdier because there is just a bit of wobbling when driving on bumpy roads but I'm not too worried about them coming dislodged. Take note that although they come with a cable lock to attach the bike to the carrier, the key is sold separately.
Very good product. It holds the bike securely on the roof without contacting the frame. It is easy to adjust from my road bike to my 29er mountain bike. Our drives are all relatively short, so I like that I do not need to remove the front wheel to lock in the bike. It's also nice that the SKS locking system allows me to use the same key for this rack that I use for my Yakima roof box and hitch rack. This is my first roof rack and I chose this route for a couple reasons. Some of the roads we travel to get to our trail heads are a bit rough and with a roof rack I don't have to worry about bottoming out a hitch rack hanging off the back of the vehicle. Also, it takes up less room in the garage. Our vehicle is a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee with an additional 4 inches of ground clearance. That makes it a bit of a reach for my 5'4" wife, so we take our two-step along to help her. This is my third time purchasing from etrailer, and each experience has been very good. They are a very customer service oriented company. I really appreciate all the additional information they provide on their products, especially all the videos they produce to aid in reviews, assembly, and use.
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Rhino-Rack MountainTrail Rooftop Bike Carrier - Fork Mount
Love this bike rack! It fits perfectly with my Rhino Rack Cross Bars. I'm very impressed by the lack of wind noise. With the bike mounted on the rack, you can barely hear the wind noise at 60mph. With the sunroof open you can hear wind noise, but as long as the window is closed, you can only slightly hear anything if the radio is off and you are trying to hear it. Amazing! Can't wait to get more use out of it in the future!
I have used a lot of bike racks and this is the one I keep on my 4Runner. It just works. It is the easiest to take on and off, which is important for me because between me, my wife and kids I have 4 bikes that need to be rearranged often. We also use a roof box, kayak racks and a SUP rack so I am always taking things off and on. The front straps loop over the bar and tightens with an allen key, the back is a couple wing nuts. Since there are 2 straps up front the rack is very stable when a bike is on it. I like that it comes with locks and the skewer is super easy to adjust, clamp and unclamp. If it is cold, dark and damp at 6am and I am tired, late for a ride and still waking up this is the rack I go for because it is easy. There are a couple things to be aware of though... You will need to put a drop of oil in the skewer every 6 months or so to keep it opening and closing smoothly. Otherwise is can stick. Sometimes if the skewer is turned just right there will be a bit of whistle because of a hole in the clamping mechanism. If I turn it to a different angle the whistle stops. And after going through the car wash with the rack on my roof a dozen times or so the black paint began to have a bit of a rainbow sheen. Not sure if it is the bike rack or the soap my car wash uses.
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Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Carrier - Fork Mount
Good product. However, the one I ordered was supposed to fit the aero cross bars on 2018 Subaru roof racks and it doesn't. In fact the fit is very sloppy and looks unsafe. Sending mine back if they can't find a clamp that fullly contacts all surfaces.
Yep - exactly what I ordered. Instructions included are very thorough. The bike carrier arrived with some box damage but was in perfect condition. Includes everything but the locking cylinder for the skewer (for obvious reasons). I appreciate the clear instructions on how to assemble it all together. Haven't put it on my Yakima rack yet but I know it's straightforward. Can't wait to put the carrier into service!
RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2015 Subaru XV Cross Trek, we're doing a test fit of the Rocky Mounts Bass Knuckles Roof Mounted Bike Rack. That part number is RKY1202. We already have our bike on our vehicle, we're first going to show you how we strap it down. We'll start here at the front. We've got a Razor ratcheting strap that you're going to see on most of your roof mounted bike racks. We've got the same thing in the back here.
Rhino Rack Road Warrior Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test fit of the Rhino Rack Road Warrior Roof Mounted Bike Rack, that part number is RBC036. Now, we already have our bike on the rack. We're first going to show you how we strap that down. Back here at the back tire, we have a regular ratcheting strap that you're going to see on most of your roof mounted bike racks. To release that, we're just going to push down and lift the strap up. Then at the front, we have our skewer.
Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek we're doing a test fit of the Rhino-Rack MountainTrail roof top bike rack. That part number is RBC035. We already have our bike on the rack. We're first going to go over how it is strapped down. Here in the back we have a regular ratcheting strap that you're going to see on most of your bike racks. You're going to push down on the black lever and lift up.
Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Speaker 1: Today with our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're gonna be test fitting the Thule upright roof top bike rack, part number TH599000. We already have it installed on our vehicle. We have a bike installed on it as well, so let's go ahead and take a closer look. This is a one bike bike rack that grips your bike by the wheels, so this is great for your carbon fiber bikes like you see here or other style bikes such as kid's bikes or alternate frame bikes.It grips your front tire at two points which is pretty unique, and these two pieces actually lock together on the other side here so it provides superior stability while you travel. At the rear, we're gonna have this strap here that does ratchet into place, and by ratchet, that actually literally ratchets into place. This is adjustable back and for bikes of different sizes and it also has an integrated cable lock at the rear here, although the lock is sold separately.
Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Speaker 1: Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Thule Outride roof top, bike rack, part number TH561020. We already have a bike installed on our rack. Let's go ahead and closer look and show off some of the features. This is going to grip your bike by the fork mount, so it's going to sit down like you see here. You will have to remove the front wheel. They do have front wheel holders that you can attach to your roof rack as well, that are sold separately.It grips it by the fork mounts here, using this lever, like so.
Swagman Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Speaker 1: Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Race Ready roof bike rack, part number S64705. We already have a bike installed on the rack, let's take a closer look and show off some of the features. How the bike is held into the place, we're not going to have any frame contact at all, so for bikes such as this one, where it's carbon frame, it'll grip it by your wheel instead, and protect everything else.It does come with a lock up at the front here, so once you have this pushed into place, you can lock it down and the bike will be secured to the rack. I would like to point out though, this does not have a lock to secure your bike rack to your roof rack. It does have wheel cradles on either side that can slide back and forth to accommodate bikes of different sizes.The wheel cradle here is adjustable back and forth as well, by loosening up the bolts on either side, and sliding it back and forth to accommodate wider wheel width. And while we do have a road bike on here, this will also fit mountain bikes, and fat bikes with an additional strap that you would have to replace.With everything installed as it is, we're not going to have an issue of clearance, between our rear hatch and the bike rack, as you can see here, there's plenty of space in between.
Swagman Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Speaker 1: Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be testing the Swagman Enforcer Rooftop Bike Rack, part number S64704. This carries up to one bike. You can either carry it by the forks, as you can see here. Or you can also have this replaced with a 15-mm thru-axle, and carry it that way. The rear wheel strap is adjustable along the bike rack, to accommodate for bikes of different sizes. With this particular vehicle, we're not going to have an issue with clearance between the rear hatch and the bike rack.
Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima High Road Rooftop Bike Rack, part number Y02114. We already have a bike installed on our rack. Let's take a closer look and show off some of our features. Now how this bike is actually gripped to the bike rack, we're not going to have any frame contact at all, and we don't have to remove our front tire. Instead, it grips it by the front tire here and then it also attaches at the rear point with this wheel strap, and it is adjustable to accommodate bikes of different sizes. Now also we have this TorqueRight knob so once you tighten this down you'll hear two or three clicks like that to let you know that it's tightened enough and you don't want to over tighten it. With everything installed as it is right now, we can open up our rear hatch, and there's not going to be a clearance issue between our bike rack and the hatch as you can see here.
Rhino Rack Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today, on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to test fitting the Rhino Rack Hybrid Roof Bike Rack part number RRRBC050. We already have a bike installed on the rack. Let's go and take a closer look and show off some of the features. Now, one of the best features about this bike rack is the fact that it doesn't grip your bike by the frame at all. Instead, have this wheel hook, up at the front here, and it has two points so you can actually attach a cable lock to secure your bike to the bike rack. At the rear here, we have a wheel strap and we also have a wheel strap at the front as well.
RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today in our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the RockyMounts SwitchHitter rooftop bike rack, part number RKY1270. We already have our bike installed on the rack. Let's go ahead and take a closer look and show off some of the features. Now the most prominent feature of this bike rack is that it doesn't grip it by your frame at all. Instead it grips it by two other points. We're going to have the skewer here at the front, which will grip your bike by the forks, but this can also work with through axles as well. At the rear, we have this wheel strap, which is adjustable along the bike rack itself to accommodate different sized bikes. If you move to the rear here, I'd just like to show you that, on this particular model of vehicle, you're not going to have any clearance issues between the hatch itself and the bike rack itself.
Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on this 2014 Subaru XV CrossTrek, we're going to be test fitting the Thule ProLogue XT Roof Bike Rack, part number TH516XT. We already have a bike installed on the rack, let's go ahead and take a closer look and show off some of the features. How this attaches to the rack, you're going to have two points of contact. You're going to have this ratcheting strap here in the back as well as this skewer that holds on to the forks of our bike in the front. Now you can pop out this plastic section here and actually install lock core if you like for added security. Let's go ahead and take the bike off and set it aside. We'll start with the wheel strap in the rear, then holding on to the bike, we move to the skewer in the front.
Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test fit of a Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Fork Mounted. That part number is TR02. See that we have a bike already in a rack. Let's go ahead and show you a few features here. This is a fork mounted rack. See we have our skewer here to unloosen it or to un-clamp it like so . other side, the little button here to loosen and tighten it up. So, we go ahead and clamp it back down. Now we go to the rear.
RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek we're doing a test fit of the RockyMounts BrassKnuckles Roof Mounted Bike Rack. That part number is RKY1202. We see how we have a bike on our rack. I'd just like to show you a few features. Like I said, BrassKnuckles, as you can see right here on our wheel frame hook here, this is how the wheel's engaged. How you unloosen it, pressing the blue button here, lifting up and out will disengage it.
Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today, on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test fit of the Inno Tire-Hold Roof Bike Rack, that part number again is INA389. See here we have a bike already in our rack, like to show you a few features now. How our bike is held up, and like I said, this is a tire hold, we have a cradle in our back to hold our back tire with the wheel frame here. Also in the front, we have another wheel cradle with a wheel frame here also. To disengage this, we got it here is a lever with a lock and key, so it'd be good for security, you can leave your bike here, no tampering. We click up on this, pull this back, still holding our bike, kind of pull it out our front tire, now we can take our bike off, there we go, set this to the side. Alrighty, now let's talk about a few things back here. Okay, we saw how we had it all hooked up, now we're going to show you how we got around our crossbars.
Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek we're doing a test fit of the Inno Multi-Fork Lock Roof Bike Carrier. That part number is INA392. See that we have a bike on our rack. Let's show you a few features now. This is a fork loaded rack. Behind here, let me show you, we just press the key for our anti-lock. Right here we have our skewer that holds down our forks.
Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek we're doing a test fit of the Inno Fork Lock Number 3 Bike Carrier. That part number is INA391. You see we already have it on our vehicle, show you a few features here. Like I said this a fork mounted bike rack, you see there it has the skewer around there. Back to the back we just have a strap holding down our back wheel, so we'll unloosen that first, pull that out the way. Now we go up here, like I said this has a locking system, so good for anti-theft.
Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test fit of the Inno Slim Fork Roof Mounting Bike Carrier. That part number is INA387. See that we have a bike on our rack already. I'd like to show you a few features as we get started here. First, I'll show you in the back, we have a wheel carrier here which actually can fit any kind of wheel. How you tighten it down, just turn the knob here. See that it's tightening on there.
Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test it of the Rhino-Rack MountainTrail Roof Rack Bike Carrier, part number RBC035. We do already have out bike on our rack. We're going to show you how we strap that down and also how we strap the rack to our crossbars. Back here on our wheel, we've got just a single strap, loosens and tightens just by pressing that black lever there. Then, at the front we've got a skewer. It'll tighten by turning this knob here one way.
Rhino Rack Road Warrior Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we are doing a test fit of the Rhinorack Road Warrior Rooftop Bike Carrier. The part number is R-B-C-0-3-6. See that we have a bike on our rack Let's show you a few features here. Back here in the back, we have our strap, to hold down our back tire. Up front here .. Like I said, this is a fork-mounted bike rack, so we have our forks already mounted in.
Rhino-Rack Mountain Trail Bike Rack Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, were going to be test fitting the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail. This is a fork mount roof bike rack, part number RBC035. Now to begin our test fit, were going to place our bike rack right up onto our Thule crossroads roof rack system that weve got installed. Bring that clamp back just a little bit to give us some clearance. Now were going to remove the long black cover thats here on the top. Then well bring the two black rubber coated metal straps around the underside of our load bar and fit them right here into the head of the carrier.
Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today, in our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstek, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Upright roof mounted bike rack. This is a frame clamp style. Its part number is S64720. We've got the Thule rapid crossroads roof rack system already installed on the Subaru.We'll begin our test fit by placing our bike rack right up on to our load bars. Here at the front, we're going to bring one of our U bolts around the underside of our load bar and then back up through the head of our carrier. We'll take two of the wing nuts and thread those on.
Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek well be test fitting the Thule Big Mouth Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number th599xtr. To begin our test fit well place the Big Mouth directly onto our load bars. Here at the front well bring our front clamp around our front bar, place our t-bolt through the slot in the clamp and tighten it down with the wing nut. Well do this for both sides of our front platform. Here at the rear well bring our bolts around our rear bar. Well place the bolt through the bracket and tighten down the two wing nuts.
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek well be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number s64710. With a Thule Aeroblade roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the Swagman Fork Down directly onto our load bars. Here at the front, well take our u-bolt around the underside of our load bar and back up through the platform. Then well install the two wing nuts to tighten it in place. Well do this same process for the other side of the platform. Here at the rear, well take our u-bolt and drop it through the top of the carrier making sure it goes around our load bar and secure it with the other two wing nuts.
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek
Today on our 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek well be test fitting the RockyMounts Tierod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number rky1011. With a Thule Aeroblade roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the Stretch directly on to our load bars. Here at the front well need to remove the black plastic cover and then we can bring our straps around the front bar and fit them back into the head of the carrier. Well use an Allen key to tighten down the Allen bolt which will then tighten our straps around our front bar. Once we have that tight we can then reinstall our black plastic cover. Here at the rear well undo the bolts and bring our rear bracket around our rear bar and then tighten the Allen bolts with an Allen key.
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