Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus, we are going to be test fitting the Yakima front loader, a wheel mount roof bike rack, part #Y02103. With our Yakima Q tower roof rack system already installed on our Taurus, we are going to begin our test fit by placing our back rack directly onto our cross bars. Here at the front, we'll bring the two portions of the clamp to the front side of our cross bar and the single portion of our clamp will go around the rear. We will then use the T-handle located in the front to tighten this down. With our front secure, we will now move to the rear. Here we're going to loosen the black T-nut, remove the T-bolt from the slot on the lower half of the clamp, bring our clamp around our bar, re-insert the T-bolt and tighten it down with the T-nut. With our rack secure, it is now time to load our bike. We'll first undo our wheel strap and move our front wheel cradle all the way to it's forward position. We'll now grab our bike, place it onto the rack, allow it to roll forward slowly, bringing up the smaller rear half of the front wheel cradle. more
6/30/2014 1:02:33 PM
Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus we'll be test-fitting the Yakima ForkLift, a fork mount, roof-mounted bike rack, part number Y02098. With the Yakima Q-Tower Roof Rack system already installed on the Taurus, we're going to begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly onto our crossbars. The front, we'll remove the skewer. It is reverse thread. Slide back the black plastic cover. Then we can loosen the T handle to separate the lower half of our clamp. more
6/30/2014 1:02:22 PM
Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman upright roof bike rack, part number S64720. With our Yakima Q tower roof rack system already installed on the Taurus, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly on to our crossbars. Here at the front we'll bring two of the metal U-bolts around the underside of our bar, fit them through the head of the rack, and use two wingnuts to secure each one in place. With all four of our wingnuts in the front tight, we can now move to the rear. This time we're going to place the U-bolt down through the rack, around our bar, being sure that we have threads on both sides of our crossbar. We'll then bring the metal portion of the clamp up, place the U-bolt through it, and then we'll secure this in place using two of the wingnuts. With the rear secured it's now time to load our bike. more
6/30/2014 12:59:20 PM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down, the fork mount roof bike rack, part number S64710. With our Yakima Q Towers roof rack system installed on our vehicle, we're going to begin the test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto our crossbars. Here at the front, we'll bring one of the metal U-bolts around the underside of our bar, fit it through the head of the carrier, and secure it in place using 2 wing nuts. We'll repeat the same process on the other side of the front of the carrier here, and then secure down all 4 of our wing nuts. With our front secure, we'll move to the rear. Here at the rear, we're going to place one of the U-bolts down through the rack. We'll be sure that it comes down on both sides of our crossbar. more
6/30/2014 12:59:08 PM
SportRack Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test fitting the SportRack Roof Mount Bike Rack part number SR4622. With our Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack system already installed on the Taurus, we're going to begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly on to our cross bars. At the front we'll bring one of the black rubber coated metal U-Bolts around the underside of our bar, fit it through the head of the carrier and hold it in place with two wing nuts. On the other side of the front we'll repeat that same process, then we can tighten all four wing nuts down to secure the front of our rack to our front bar. We'll now moved to the rear bar, where we're going to place two carriage bolts through the rack, being sure that they come out on both sides of our rear crossbar, we'll then place the black plastic portion of our clamp in between our rack and our load bar being sure that these carriage bolts go through it. Then we'll bring our metal portion of our clamp around the underside of our bar. We'll fit the two bolts through it and secure it and place using two wing nuts. With these two secure, it's now time to load our bike. more
6/30/2014 12:58:53 PM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus, we are going to be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Stretch, a fork mount roof bike rack, part number RKY1011. With the Yakima Q Towers roof rack system already installed on our Taurus, we're going to begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto our cross bars. Here at the front we'll bring the black rubber coated metal straps around the underside of our bar. We'll then remove the black plastic cover. We can take our straps, fit them into the appropriate slots. Then, use our Allen key to tighten our Allen bolt. more
6/24/2014 12:20:26 PM
Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2013 Ford Taurus we're going to be test fitting the Kuat Trio, a Fork Mount Roof Bike Rack with part number RU01. With our Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack system already installed on the Taurus we're going to begin our test fit by placing the Trio directly onto our crossbars. At the front we'll bring the black rubber-coated metal U bolt around the underside of our bar, through the head of the carrier and we'll secure it in place using two cylinder nuts. We'll repeat this same process for the other side of the front. Then we can take our provided tool and tighten all four of our cylinder nuts down. We'll move to the rear where we're going to remove one of our wing nuts. We'll bring our clamp around our bar, being sure that one of our bolts is coming down on both sides. We'll reinsert the bolt through the lower half of our clamp, put on our wing nut and then we'll tighten down both wing nuts to secure it. more
6/24/2014 12:19:57 PM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2014 Ford Taurus we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down. This is a fork mount roof bike rack. Part #S64710. We've got the Rhino Rack Vortex Arrow Roof Rack System already installed on the Taurus. We're going to begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly up on to our crossbars. Here at the front, we'll take one of the U-bolts, bring it around the underside of our crossbar and fit it up through the head of our carrier. We'll then take two of the wing nuts and thread them on just to hold that in place. The other side in the front we've got a second U-bolt, we're going to do the same as we did on the other side. Bring it around the underside of our bar and we adjust them so we've got both of our U-bolts in the same spot. more
4/22/2014 9:08:31 AM
Thule Sprint Fork Mount Bike Rack Review - 2014 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2014 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test fitting the Thule Sprint. This is a fork-mount roof style bike rack, Part Number TH528. We've got the Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero Roof Rack System already installed here on the Taurus. So we're going to begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly up onto our load bars. We want to bring the black rubber-coated metal straps around the underside. To be sure that the top portion of our clamp is resting just right on top of those bars. We'll then bring the one at the rear here around the back, fit it into the foot of the carrier there. more
4/18/2014 11:11:30 AM
Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Ford Taurus- Video
Today, on our 2014 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Upright. This is frame clamp style roof bike rack. Part # S64720. We've got the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero Roof Rack System already installed in the Taurus. We'll begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly up onto our cross bar. At the front of the rack, we've got 2 U bolts we're going to use to secure it. We're going to take the U bolt, bring it around the underside of our cross bar, and up to the head of the carrier. more
4/18/2014 11:06:40 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2014 Ford Taurus, we're going to be test-fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Stretch. This is a fork mount roof bike rack. It's part #RKY1011. We've got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system already installed on this Taurus. We'll begin our test fit, by placing the bike rack up on to our crossbars. Here at the front we're going to remove the black plastic cover, and remove the two rubber-coated metal straps from the head of the carrier. We'll then bring those around the underside of our crossbar, fit them back into the head of the carrier, and secure them by tightening down the Allen bolt right here in the front. With our front nice and secure, we can move to the rear. more
4/18/2014 11:05:00 AM
Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2014 Ford Taurus, we're going to be testing the Kuat Trio. This is a fork-mount roof style bike rack part number RU01. We've got a Rhino-Rack Vortech Aero Roof Rack System. I already installed them to Taurus. We'll begin our test like placing our bike rack up onto the roof rack. We'll then going to take one of our black rubber-coated metal U-bolts. We'll bring it around the underside of the rack and fit it up to the head of the carrier. more
4/16/2014 4:10:50 PM
Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2012 Ford Taurus- Video
Today on our 2012 Ford Taurus well be test fitting the Yakima fork Lift roof mounted bike carrier, part number Y02098. To mount our carrier to the vehicle well first sit it up on top of our load bars. Well fit the clamp on the underside of the head around our crossbar and tighten it down using the T-bolt and wing nut. Then we can reinstall our hardware cover and reinstall our skewer. At the rear of the bike rack well fit the rear clamp around our bar and again use the T-bolt and wing nut to tighten it down. We also want to make sure that our wheel strap is open so that we can go ahead and load our bike. more
11/21/2012 11:47:13 AM
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