Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Hi everyone. It's Evangeline here at etrailer.com. And today we are looking at our Kuat Transfer V2 Single Bike Rack here on our 2015 Subaru Forester. This is a really solid bike rack. If you are looking for something that is actually pretty affordable. And it has all the nice features. more
4/15/2021 6:48:23 AM
Thule Doubletrack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we have our Thule Doubletrack Platform Style Bike Rack, part number TH990XT. See here that we have one strip on each wheel and we have those in-between the spokes. We'll undo those, we'll pull up on our silver lever here, we'll squeeze our release and pull the strap out of the way. Now because we have these smaller tires on here, we do have our spacer to be able to hold that in place. Come back here, same way on our back wheel. If you do have bigger wheels for mountain bikes, you can always pull this out of the way. more
11/13/2015 11:06:14 AM
Softride Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're doing a test fit of the Softride Hydraulic Assist Dura tilting 4-bike rack, part number SR26321. This bike rack is designed to work with 1-1/4" and 2" hitches. The main feature I want to show you first is the hydraulic assist. Now if we come to the back here there's a black handle. We're just going to pull out that pin. That will allow us to push our bike and our bike rack away from the vehicle. more
11/10/2015 8:27:49 AM
Kuat Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're doing a test fit of the Kuat Transfer 3 Platform Style 3 Bike Rack, part number TS03G. Now the first feature of the rack I want to show you is the tilt-away feature. We come up here, lift that last wheel hook out of the way. We can use our foot to push down that lever and tilt our bike rack away. Now with this rack, we do make contact with the ground here, so you just want to be aware of that whenever you're setting your bike rack down- That you might end up having some scratches on those end caps there. With that tilted out of the way, we have full access to our back hatch here to get anything in or out that we may need. You can step between your rack and your vehicle. more
11/10/2015 8:26:50 AM
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Day on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we have our Tuly 00:00:04 Roadway Two Bike Rack, part number TH912XTR. We've got three straps holding this in. We've got our anti-sway and our two straps up top. We'll take the two ones off up top and get those out of the way and take this one off last. It's always a good habit to go ahead and put these straps back so they don't get damaged or lost. Let's take some measurements. This adds about 30 inches to the back of our vehicle. We've got a ground clearance of about 10 1/2 inches to the bottom right here and our closest point to the vehicle is about 2 1/2 inches so we're not going to have any problem with our rack hitting our vehicle. more
11/10/2015 8:21:06 AM
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester th9031xt- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we are test fitting the Thule Vertex Swing, this is a swing-a-way four by crate designed to fold down when not in use part number on it is TH9031XT. First question everybody wants answered is how does the swing-a-way work, it's really easy process. See handle bolt right here, we are going to loosen it up, allow that to tilt down, then we can lift up our black pin here. We will start to rotate this out and away from the vehicle, we can take the time now to pivot this joint till our pin goes back down into our new pin location here. Then we will remove the black pin here on the side, that's going to prevent our bike from going to far when we initially open it up. We can lift that out and set it aside. Continue to swing our rack on out, as you can see we have good clearance there between the rear tire and the side of the vehicle, and then to keep it there we can reinsert our pin that's going to keep it from swinging back toward us. more
8/3/2015 4:22:06 PM
Thule Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester TH9029XT- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're doing a test fit on the Thule Vertex. This is a folding, tilting 4-bike rack. It's been designed for use with either the 1-1/4" or with 2" hitches. Part number on it is TH9029XT. Now the Thule has a nice cable lock that's incorporated right into the mast. Comes back, connects into the end of our cradle arm. more
8/3/2015 4:21:26 PM
SportRack Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're test fitting the SportRack RidgeSwing. This is a swing-away-style 4-bike rack. They've designed it for use with 2" hitches. Part number on it is SR24145. Now the swing-away feature, that's the biggest feature of course, the one everybody likes. Got our t-handle bolt here; we're going to remove that. more
8/3/2015 4:21:06 PM
Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're test fitting the Swagman Dispatch. This an RBF proved platform style two-bike rack. It's been designed for use in two inch hitches. The part number on it is S64684. As you can see the dispatch has a front wheel cradle, rear wheel cradle, both of those are going to have cradle straps, and also a framed look that's going to hold our bike into position. Does a really good job, it's one of the sturdier fits I've felt on a bike rack. Part of that has to do with the real nice long wheel cradles, they give us plenty of support all the way around the tire, and then we've got a cam-buckle strap, we can just press in the black lever, pull that out, you can see it's a nice long strap, so lots of different wheel sizes are going to fit in there. We've even got a bushing here, this is going to ride on top of most tires, but if your tire is very large we can take that out, or if you've got a really narrow road bike tire that'll take up the space to make sure you get a great fit. more
8/3/2015 4:18:07 PM
Swagman Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester S63380- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're test fitting the Swagman Trailhead. This is a folding and tilting four bike style rack. It's been designed for use with the inch and a quarter or with two inch hitches. Part number on it is S63380. Now the Swagman uses four straps and two cradles to hold our bikes in place. We've got three for the top two and one on the rear to act as our anti-sway cradle. more
8/3/2015 4:16:48 PM
Hollywood Racks Traveler Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're going to be doing a test fit on the Hollywood Tracks Traveler 5-bike rack. Now this has been designed for use in 2" hitches. Also designed to tilt away from your vehicle. The part number on it is HR9200. Now to begin the test fit we need to slide the shank of the Traveler right into the receiver tube of our hitch. We'll line up our threaded hole with our hitch pinhole. more
10/6/2014 11:43:29 AM
Thule Hitching Post Pro Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're going to do a test fit of the Thule Hitching Post Pro. This is a folding and tilting 4-bike rack. It's been designed for use with 1-1/4" or 2" hitches. Part number is TH934XTR. Now to begin our test fit we need to slide the shank of the rack into the receiver tube of our hitch. As we do we want our threaded pinhole here to line up with or hitch pinhole. We'll then slide in our anti-rattle bolt and begin threading it in. more
9/25/2014 12:41:02 PM
Yakima FullTilt Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're going to do a test fit of the Yakima FullTilt. This is a folding and tilting four bike rack. It's been designed for use with inch and quarter or two inch hitches. Part Number on it Y02462. If you need an extra cradle set we do have this available in a five bike that Part Number is Y02463. To begin our test fit we'll slide the shank of the rack right into the receiver tube of our hitch. We'll need to slide it in far enough so that the small silver pin appears on our hitch pin hole. more
8/15/2014 11:26:10 AM
Thule Helium Aero Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Rate your transcript OrderClientKevin BrossRef #20593Order #TC0999573265 Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we are going to do a test fit on the Thule Helium Aero. This is a folding and tilting two bike rack. It has been designed for use with inch and a quarter or two inch hitches. The part number is TH9042. Now this is also available on a three bike configuration. That part number is TH9043. To begin our test fit we'll hold out on the black attach pin located on the right side or passenger side of our rack. more
8/15/2014 11:12:44 AM
Swagman Titan Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Rate your transcript OrderClientKevin BrossRef #20587Order #TC0749278147 Today on our 2015 Suburu Forester we're going to do a test fit on the Swagman Titan. This is a folding and tilting four bike rack. They've designed it for use with inch and a quarter to two inch hitches. Part number on it is S63410. Now to begin our test fit we need to slide the shank of the rack right into the receiver tube of our hitch. As we do this, we want to line up our pin hole with our hitch pin hole. We'll then thread in our anti-rattle bolt. more
8/15/2014 10:48:16 AM
Softride Element Parallelogram Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're going to do a test fit on the Softride Element Parallelogram. This is a folding and tilting four bike rack. It's been designed for use with inch and a quarter and 2 inch hitches. Part number on it is SR26248. To begin our test fit, we'll slide the shank of the rack right into the receiver tube of our hitch. We'll need to slide it in far enough so our threaded hole ends up with our hitch pin hole. We'll then take our anti-rattle bolt, which is provided; thread it in. more
8/14/2014 4:16:23 PM
Softride Dura Parallelogram Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're going to do a test fit on the Softride Dura Parallelogram. This is a tilting 4-bike rack. It's been designed for use with inch and a quarter and 2 inch hitches. The part number is SR26247. To begin our test fit, we need to slide the shank of the rack into the receiver tube of our hitch. As we do, we've got 2 holes to choose from here on the side of the shank. I'm going to slide it in and use the hole that's the closest to the end of the shank. more
8/14/2014 4:13:46 PM
Saris Freedom SuperClamp Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're going to do a test-fit on a Saris Freedom SuperClamp. This 2 bike platform-style rack has been designed for use an inch and a quarter or two inch hitches. Part number on it is SA4025. To begin our test-fit we need to slide the shank of the rack into the receiver tube of our hitch. As we do, we want to line up our threaded hole with our hitch pin hole. We could then slide in our anti-rattle bolt and thread it in. We should thread it in from the driver to the passenger side. more
8/14/2014 4:11:44 PM
Saris Freedom Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're going to do a test fit on the Saris Freedom. This is a folding and tilting 4-bike rack. It's been designed for use in 2 inch hitches. Its part number is SA4414B. To begin our test fit, we need to slide the shank of the rack right into the receiver tube of our hitch. As we slide it in, we want to line up our threaded hole with our hitch pin hole. Once we have those in line, we're going to take our anti-rattle bolt, slide it in and start threading it in by hand. more
8/14/2014 4:09:02 PM
Saris Bike Porter Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, we're going to do a test fit on the Saris Bike Porter. This is a folding and tilting 4-bike rack. It's been designed for use with 1-1/4 or 2-inch hitches. Part number on it is SA404B. We also have this available in a 2-bike configuration. That part number is SA4042B. more
8/14/2014 4:07:08 PM
Saris Axis Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, were going to do a test-fit on the Saris Axis. This is a folding and titling three-bike rack. Its been designed for use with 1 or 2-inch hitches, part number SA843B.To begin our test-fit, well slide the shank of the rack right into the receiver tube of our hitch. We need to slide it in far enough, so that the threaded hole lines up with our hitch pinhole. We can then slide in our anti-rattle bolt. Well do that from the left to the right hand side, and well begin tightening it down by hand.Once we have it hand-tight here, as you can see, we still got quite a bit of movement and play on the rack, so well take our wrench. more
8/14/2014 4:04:12 PM
Kuat NV Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester, were going to do a test fit on the Kuat NV. This is a 4-bike platform style rack. It is folding and tilting by design. Part number on it is N105-107 for the black and chrome as we have here. Its also in a gun metal gray and orange. That part number is N101-103. more
8/14/2014 3:33:58 PM
Hollywood Racks Traveler Tow n Go Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Forester we're going to do a test fit on the Hollywood Racks Traveler Two and Go. This is three-bike rack designed to mount on 2-inch ball mounts. Part number on it is HR135. Now we've mounted it on our hidden hitch extra long shank ball amount. Part number on that is 80232. The shank and ball are sold separately. You can check that out on our website if you need to pick one up. more
8/14/2014 2:59:28 PM
Hollywood Racks Traveler Hitch Bike Racks Review - 2015 Subaru Forester HR8500- Video
Today on our 2015 Subaru Outback, we are going to be a test fit on the Hollywood Racks Traveler this is a tilting and folding four bike rack. Been designed for use inch an a quarter or two inch hitches. The part number on it is HR8500. Now this is also available on a three bike configuration. That part number is HR6500. To begin our test fit, we are going to slide the shank of the rack right under the receiver tube of our hitch. As we do, we need to slide it far enough so our threaded hole lines up with our hitch pinhole. more
8/14/2014 2:57:39 PM
