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This ramp for your Kuat Piston Pro or Piston Pro X bike rack makes it easy to load and unload heavy bikes. Simply insert the ramp into the end of a tray and roll your bike onto the rack.
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The piston pro X makes it very easy to load up your bikes but if you have heavy bikes, like e-bikes, we do have a e-bike ramp that's gonna work with the piston. So this in it's smallest form is gonna be 32 inches long and we can adjust it all the way down to 54 inches. This is gonna help a lot, especially if your e-bikes are pretty heavy. Anything up to 60 pounds, it's gonna work with. So all you wanna do is adjust it to the length that you want. I just like using the longer ramp and then we want to open this up just by pressing that little lever and you want to do it on both sides, but then after this, on the side that you want to load it up on, we're gonna put this down like this and then after that, you're gonna hear some clicks.
So that needs to happen and then once we're done with that, we're gonna have one side that has these little channels here and it's gonna mount right where those tire holders are going to go on the rack. This fits in there very, very nicely and it really doesn't want to come off very easily. So that's gonna be nice. So it's gonna stay in place whenever we grab our bike. So that's what we wanna do.
Grab the bike. We don't have a whole lot of room in our bay but what you want to do is just line it up, nice and straight and then we're gonna take this up, just like this and then this is where it gets a little tricky. What we wanna do is kind of lock this wheel in a little bit. We can't push it too hard because we need to have the other arm go. So now it's kind of standing up but I recommend just putting a hand on it just to make sure it doesn't go anywhere.
We're just gonna take this ramp off real quick. Kind of set it to the side, we'll deal with that later and then we're gonna click that little lever again. It'll stop and then after that, it'll come up and you should hear some clicking, just like this and then you just tighten it down like you normally would and then once you're done, what you can do is, we can lean the piston pro back a little bit. We can adjust this down, just by turning these little hand knobs right here and then just put it in your storage area. We aren't gonna have a place on the piston pro to put this.
So you will have to put it in a storage area like this but you can put it with your bike cable, if you're not using that. Here are some other measurements. The overall width of the ramp is gonna be four inches, and then these lifts right here, they're gonna come up about an inch and one eighth onto the sides. So it's gonna be great for your road bikes. It's gonna be great for those fat tire bikes, if it doesn't exceed the four inches. It is made of steel. It's only about seven pounds so it's not too heavy for being steel and it does have a powder coated finish too. So even if you have a truck or something and you store it in the bed, it's not gonna rust away. We get to the trail head. We're gonna tilt this back. If you leave it in the back of your vehicle, we're gonna grab it from the back and then just unload our bikes with a little bit less strain on us. So we're gonna kind of do exactly what we did before. First, just prepare the ramp, get it to the length that you want, tighten it up. This is where I suggest just kind of putting it down close to where we're gonna be. You can keep the front of the bike cinch down or if you really wanted to either back it off or go off the front, you can do it on either side and it's gonna work for all of the cradles that we have. So we're gonna put that in there and then we undo the other side and then after, just back it off. I always like to just keep my hand on the brake, just to help it go down nice and smooth, so it doesn't go too fast and then once that's done, you can take your bike, put it to the side, get on the way but I would definitely recommend putting it somewhere safe and outta the way of anybody else. Just because, it is gonna be a lot wider than your vehicle. Once that's done, you just put it away and go along your way on the trails and that's pretty much it for it. There's not a whole lot to it. It's just the ramp for this specific bike rack. No other bike racks are gonna work with this ramp and that's pretty much it. There's not a whole lot to it but when it comes to products that make things a little bit easier, I think the ramp for the co-op piston is something I would definitely grab..
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (31 Customer Reviews)
This ramp for your Kuat Piston Pro or Piston Pro X bike rack makes it easy to load and unload heavy bikes. Simply insert the ramp into the end of a tray and roll your bike onto the rack.Ramp arrived quickly and in perfect condition. It is expandable length wise and is well built. Easy to carry when compacted. Works great to roll bikes up on to the carrier instead of lifting. We have the Piston Pro X carrier on the back of 2019 Jeep JL using a Saris swing out to access the back. The set up works pretty well.
Works great with my Kuat Piston Pro
The product is expensice for what it is. Also it took 4 days before it was ever shipped and then tood forever in the mail. Wouldn't use this company again if I don't have to
Quality product and easy to use. It makes a tremendous difference when trying to load our heavy e-bikes.
Nice accessory to make life easier installing the electric bikes on the rack.
Helps us load 3 & 4" ebikes. Wish it was a bit wider. Ramp does chip rack coating.
Katrina B.
1/24/2023
I have contacted the manufacturer and the only thing we can recommend is being gentle and careful. We recommend making sure the ramp is properly tightened before using it to insure it isnt moving around whenever pushing the bikes up the ramp.
Its light and compact and works great.
Pricey, but works precisely as intended, no qualms about its excellent quality of build.
Works great with the heavier e-bikes.
Quality is fine. I just wished it was another foot longer to make the ramp a little less steep. Better than having to lift my e-bike though for sure.
Great service from etrailer. Arrived within a few days. I’m not crazy about the ramp design (no way to attach it to the rack for travel, so it goes in the vehicle), but I knew that when I ordered it. It’s the only option for the Piston Pro, unless someone is a creative DIY’er.
Fits great, works well.
I like this ramp, its good quality and light. It slides together to make it smaller for storage. I'm 63 and recovering from an accident and I can't lift my 72 lb ebike. This is perfect.
Works well and locks into place so there's no slipping
Exactly what I wanted delivered on time, and a great price!
It is functional but awkward to use.
The ramp will be useful with 60 LB eBik es.
Great service and excellent product.
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Noel
8/2/2023
Flawless. Its light weight and well made and makes loading the e-bikes very easy.