Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic- Video
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. more
3/26/2013 2:02:36 PM
Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic- Video
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. more
3/26/2013 2:02:32 PM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic- Video
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. more
9/4/2012 12:56:47 PM
Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic- Video
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. more
3/9/2012 3:32:02 PM
RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Honda Civic- Video
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. more
3/9/2012 3:29:32 PM
