Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide Roof Bike Rack
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Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide Roof Bike Rack
Item # TH5981
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Thule Accessories and Parts - TH5981
- Roof Bike Racks
- Adapters
- Fat Bike Adapters
- Thule
- ProRide
Convert your Thule ProRide bike rack to carry a bicycle with fat tires. Replace the existing wheel trays with these wider wheel trays designed for fat tires. Extra-long wheel straps included. No additional hardware required.
Features:
- Adapter kit converts your Thule ProRide (TH598003 - sold separately) to carry bikes with fat tires
- Works with tires up to 5" wide
- 2 Wide wheel holders replace the standard front and rear wheel holders
- 2 Extra-long ratcheting straps secure wheels to holders
- Easy installation with your rack's existing hardware
Specs:
- Strap length: 17"
- Limited lifetime warranty
598101 Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide Roof Bike Carrier
Installation Details
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Video Transcript for Thule ProRide Fat Tire Adapter Kit Review
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide roof bike rack, part number TH5981. This adapter kit enables you to convert your Thule ProRide from a standard road bike or mountain bike configuration to a fat bike configuration for tire sizes up to 5 inches wide. These operate just like the other cradles. They're able to slide back and forth to accommodate different size and the straps themselves are 17 inches long to get around the fat bike tires. This comes in a set of two and it has a limited lifetime warranty. Now that we've gone over some of the features of this lets go ahead and show you how it installs. We already have our front cradle installed.
We'll go to the rear cradle here. The first thing we need to do is remove the end cap by pushing on this button. Once we do that, all we have to do is slide our rear cradle off and install our new one. Now with our new cradle installed, last thing I want to do is put our rubber pad here on, slide it into place and now we can put it on the roof of our vehicle. With our fat bike in place we'll get our cradle situated here, then we'll start tightening down our clamp.
All right, with that tightened down around our frame, now we'll put our wheel straps through and ratchet them into place. We'll do this for the other one as well. All right, now we're ready to hit the road. There you have it for the Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide bike rack, part number TH5981.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
94% were satisfied with this product
6% of customers were not satisfied
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Customer Reviews
Fat Tire Adapter Kit for Thule ProRide Roof Bike Rack - TH5981
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 Customer Reviews)
Convert your Thule ProRide bike rack to carry a bicycle with fat tires. Replace the existing wheel trays with these wider wheel trays designed for fat tires. Extra-long wheel straps included. No additional hardware required.by: Brian 03/23/2021
Without these I wouldn't have been able to put my bike on my rack.now I take my bike just about everywhere I go.Thule rocks
by: AlexB03/14/2017
Great product and service from etrailer.
by: Antonio02/09/2018
As described.
by: Kyle 10/02/2022
by: David 06/29/2021
5
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Alexb
3/14/2018
Great