Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2018 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Adam: Hi everyone, Adam with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Yakima High Speed on our 2018 Chevrolet Impala. There's going to be a great bike rack for your roof rack system. In this case, we do have the Yakima core bar and it works very well. It's very easy to get your bike off the rack as well, so let's just go ahead and do that together.This is going to be a fork mount in front. So once you have that in place, it's going to clamp down on that, giving it really, really sturdy fit. more

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9/10/2019 5:07:27 PM

Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2018 Chevrolet Impala Y02114- Video

Hi everyone, I'm with etrailer.com. Today we have the Yakima HighRoad on our 2018 Chevrolet Impala. So this high road is going to be ideal for your higher end bikes. It has no frame contact, which is fantastic. It does have a pretty unique design. It clamps down on your front wheel, you get it nice and sturdy into place. more

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9/10/2019 5:07:15 PM

Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Classic- Video

Adam: Hi everyone. Adam with etrailer.com, and today we're going to be taking a look at the Yakima high road bike rack on our 2019 Chevrolet Silverado. This is going to be a wheel clamp style bike rack. It's going to have your main support here where it's not touching your frame whatsoever. There is no frame contact here. It does exactly what I said, and it just clamps down on your bike and squeezing it, instead of just having a wheel hook on here. more

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8/7/2019 9:18:15 PM

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2008 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2008 Chevrolet Impala, we're going to be test-fitting the Thule ThruRide Rooftop Bike Rack, part number TH535. We already have a bike installed on the rack, so let's take a closer look at it.How this actually attaches to the bike rack, we're not going to have any frame contact at all. Instead, we're going to have a skewer mount up at the front here, which will grip your bike by the fork mounts. This can be removed and be used with Thru-Axles as well if need be.At the rear, we'll have this ratcheting strap, and this is going to move back and forth along the bike rack to accommodate bikes of different sizes. With the bike rack installed, we're not going to have any issues of clearance between our trunk and the bike rack. As you can see here, plenty of space.Let's go ahead and take the bike off and set it aside. more

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8/31/2017 10:07:40 AM

Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2008 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2008 Chevrolet Impala, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima High Speed Rooftop Bike Rack, part number Y02115. We already have a bike installed on the rack, let's take a closer look, and show off some of the features.How the bike is actually attached to the rack, we're going to have no frame contact at all. Instead, it's going to grip it by our front fork-mounts here with the skewer. This will also work with thru axles as well. We also have a wheel strap at the rear here and this will adjust back and forth along the bike rack to accommodate bikes of different sizes.With everything installed as it is, we're not going to have any issue of clearance between the trunk and the bike rack. As you can see here, there's plenty of space. more

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8/31/2017 10:07:31 AM

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic we're going to be test-fitting the Thule Circuit XT Rooftop Bike Rack, part number TH526XT. We already have a bike installed on the rack. Let's go ahead and take a closer look and show off some of the features. How this bike actually attaches to the rack, we're not going to have any frame contact at all. Instead, it's going to grip it by the forks up here with a skewer mount. On the skewer mount here, you can replace this plastic piece here with a Thule lock core, so you can actually secure your bike to the rack and prevent theft and tampering. We also have this wheel strap here in the back that is adjustable the length of the bike rack to accommodate different size bikes. more

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9/27/2016 8:56:26 AM

Rhino Rack Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino-Rack Hybrid Rooftop Bike Rack, part number RRRBC050. We already have a bike installed on the rack. Let's go and take a closer look and show off some of the features. How this actually attaches to the bike rack, we're going to have three points of contact with absolutely no frame contact at all. We're going to have this wheel hook up at the front here and then two wheel straps for either tires. What's unique about this is you can actually keep the entire bike together as opposed to a lot of other bike racks where you'd have to remove the front wheel and secure it by the fork mounts. With the bike on here, I'll go ahead and open up the trunk real quick to show you have absolutely no clearance issues whatsoever between the bike rack and the trunk or hatch. The wheel hook itself is lockable, so once you actually secure your bike up here you can lock it down and there will be no theft or tampering of your bike. Let's go ahead and take it off and set it aside. more

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9/27/2016 8:56:20 AM

Rhino Rack Road-Warrior Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino-Rack Road Warrior rooftop bike rack, part number RBC036. We have the bike already installed on the rack so we're going to take a closer look and show off some of the features. Now first, how this is actually gripped onto the bike rack, there's going to be no frame contact at all. Instead we have a fork mount connection point up here with this skewer, and it is lockable. You can see on the side here. Once you have this installed, you can lock this in place and your bike is secured onto the rack. At the rear hear, we have a wheels strap, and I'll secure that as well. more

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9/27/2016 8:56:14 AM

Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt- Video

Today on this 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt we're going to be test fitting the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail Bike Rack. Part number RVC035. As you can see we already have the bike attached to the rack, let's go ahead and take a closer look. Now, it's actually attached to the rack, you're going to have two points of contact. We're going to have the strap here that holds the rear wheel in place, then we have the fork mount up front with the skewer that holds the front in place. Now, the skewer is lockable so once this is installed you can lock it in place so no one can take your bike. Let's go ahead and take the bike off and set it aside. To loosen up the strap back here you simply push in on this button here, pull the strap out. more

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2/29/2016 9:26:56 AM

Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today in our 2015 Chevrolet Cruz, we're going to take a look at the Inno Fork Lock Roof Mounted Bike Carrier. The part number is INXA391. I have the bike on a rack and we have the rack hooked to our vehicle. Let's go show you a few features of it. This is a fork mounted bike rack as you can see. We have our skewer here. It's already engaged. more

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1/7/2016 8:54:37 AM

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruise, we're going to show you the Thule ThruRide roof bike rack. Part number is TH535. Now we have a bike on our rack and we have our rack hooked to our vehicle. Alrighty, I'm just going to show you a few features of it. Now this is a fork-mounted bike rack as you can see. We have our skewer here. more

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1/6/2016 7:31:06 AM

Rhino Rack Road-Warrior Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Malibu- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Malibu, we're doing a test fit of the Rhino-Rack Road Warrior Roof Top Bike Carrier. That part number is RBC036. Now we already have our bike on our rack. We're first going to show you how we strap that down. Back here in the back, we have our ratcheting strap that you're going to see on most of your roof mounted bike racks. To release that, we're just going to push down and then lift up. more

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12/29/2015 12:46:06 PM

Rhino Rack Road-Warrior Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruze, we're going to show you the Rhino-Rack Road Warrior Rooftop Bike Carrier. That part number's RBC036. I have a bike on the rack and we have the rack hooked to our roof. I'm just going to show you a few things about it. This is a fork mounted bike rack. You see up front here, see the forks are in our little skewer and its engaged. To un-engage it, you just pull back, loosen it over there, and we can take off our bike. I'm going to show you some more things. more

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12/16/2015 3:26:06 PM

Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Malibu- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Malibu, we're doing a test fit of the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail rooftop bike carrier, part number RBC035. Now, we already have our bike on our rack. We're first go over how that's strapped down. Here in the back, we have a ratcheting strap that you'll see on most of your roof mounted bike racks. To release that, we're just going to push on the black button and lift that out of place. Up at the front, we have a skewer for our fork mounts. more

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12/16/2015 10:46:06 AM

Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze ina389- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruze, we're going to take a look at the INNO Tire Hold Roof Bike Rack. Part number is INA389. We have a bike on our rack. We have the rack hooked up to our roof. All right. I'll show you a few things about it. The first thing I can show you, this is a wheel mounted bike rack and you see we have our wheel holders in the front and in the back. Both our wheels are sitting in wheel cradles, we have the one in the front and the one in the back. The one in the back can be adjusted. I just want to show you a few things before we take our bike off. How do we disengage it We're going to life up on here. It also has a key, so if you wanted to leave your bike on your vehicle, that's good for your anti-theft. We're going to go ahead and hold on to our bike, pull that out, push this forward as much as we can, and take off our bike, set it off to the side. How our bike engages, like I said, right here this is pretty much the key that we need. more

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11/30/2015 11:36:06 AM

Inno Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze ina392- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruze we are going to take a look at the INNO Multifork lock roof bike carrier. Part number INA392. No we have a bike on our rack and we have our rack hooked up to our vehicle. I'm just going to show a few features of it. This is pretty much a fork mounted bike rack. As you can see we have our skewer engaged, I'll go ahead and show you that. This is an extra precaution or extra security. more

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11/25/2015 11:56:06 AM

RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevy Cruise we're test fitting the Rocky Mounts BrassKnuckles roof mounted bike rack. It is a wheel mounted bike rack, and the part number for that is RKY-1202. Now, as you can see we do already have our bike mounted on there and strapped in. We're going to show you how we strap it in, and then also how we connect our carrier to our crossbars. We're going to start in the back, back here with the back tire with the strap we're just going to push up on the lever and release the strap. You're going to make sure any time you strap in your bike like this you want the strap to come between the spokes so it doesn't damage them. We're going to come up here and release this strap here on the front wheel, just like that. more

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9/24/2015 5:08:05 PM

Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevi Cruise, we're test fitting the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail Rooftop Bike Carrier, part number RBC-035. Now, as you can see, we do already have our bike up on the carrier. We're going to show you how we secure the bike down. Then also, how we secure the carrier to your crossbars. All right. If we check out the back right here, we're going to look at the back tire and see that we have a strap. more

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8/24/2015 5:03:26 PM

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today, on our 2015 Chevy Cruz, we are test fitting the Kuat Trio, Part# TR02. This is a roof mounted bike rack. It's also a fork mount. We're going to show you how we put the bike on here, and also how it connects to our crossbars. As you can see, the bike is here. The tire's held in by this strap. You just push down on this little lever here and feed the strap through, and then put it on the other side of the bike. more

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8/24/2015 5:01:23 PM

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe, we'll be doing a test fit of Thule Sprint. This is going to be for roof racks with T-track systems to mount your bike rack up on top of your roof rack system. As you can see, up on top of our vehicle, we have the Thule arrow blades today and I want to show you how this fits up on top of there. This will be part number TH5669. One the arrow blades, go ahead and rotate the end cap around, pulling the ends off. Next, you can either do this two ways, pulling the entire rubber strip and protective strip out, that protects that T-track from getting any dirt and debris inside, or you can trim it to fit your bike rack. Today we're going to pull it all the way out. Next, we'll take our bike rack, ensuring that the tops are loose, so that out T-tracks guides can fit into the rail like so. more

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7/16/2015 5:02:02 PM

Thule Sprint Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe we'll be doing a test fit of the Thule Sprint. This is going to be your rooftop-mounted bike rack for a single bike to be fork-mounted. It's going to be part number TH528. We have our bike in place so you can see what it's going to look like once you have it fully assembled and on your vehicle. Now we'll go through a few of the features and show you how it's assembled and put in place. Go ahead and move to the back here and we're going to go into the backwards order of how we would place it on. Go ahead and undo or press in the gray strap button there. more

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7/6/2015 6:54:08 PM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500- Video

Today our 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, 1500 crew cab, we'll be testing the Yakima frontloader, wheel-mounted bike rack, part number Y02103. Let's go ahead and start by placing the rack in the bars. Once we have that seated we can go ahead and begin tightening. I'm going to want to make sure that is lined up as straight as we can. And begin tightening our c-lever here. It should start to grip. more

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12/30/2014 6:33:11 PM

Yakima ForkLift Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500- Video

Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 crew cab we will be test fitting the Yakima ForkLift. That's part number Y02098. With our skewer already removed it makes for an easier installation on our roof rack. We'll go ahead and place that up there and begin our test fit. You'll want to make sure that goes around the load bars here. As you can see, we've got three notches. more

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12/30/2014 6:29:34 PM

Thule Sprint Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic we're going to do a test fit on the Thule Sprint. This is roof-mounted fork clamp-style bike rack. Part number on it is TH528. Now as you can see we've got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system that we've already installed, so we're going to begin our test fit by bringing our rack, placing it right up onto our load bar. We want to be sure as we do we bring our black rubber-coated metal strap around the underside. We'll fit it in to the two indentions that are located right there on the front. Now if you do have a lot of slack in your strap that may pop out on you. more

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10/14/2014 9:28:51 AM

Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic we're going to do a test fit on the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail. Now this is a roof-mounted fork clamp-style bike rack. The part number is RBC035. As you can see, we've got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system that we've already installed on the Sonic, so we'll begin our test fit by removing the black cover that's here at the front of the rack. This allows us to remove the two black rubber-coated metal straps. We'll then bring these around the underside of our crossbar. more

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9/11/2014 1:47:08 PM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today, on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, we're going to do a test fit on the Yakima Frontloader. This is a roof mounted, wheel clamp style bike rack. Part number on it is Y02103. Now as you can see, we've got our Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system on our vehicle. We've already installed that. To begin our test fit, we're going to have two outer portions of our clamp on the front side of our bar. Then, we're going to have the one single portion of our clamp on the rear side of our bar. more

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9/8/2014 9:51:32 AM

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, we're going to do a test fit on the Swagman Fork Down. This is a roof-mounted four clamp style bike rack. The part number on it is S64710. To begin our test fit we simply need to place it up onto our roof rack. We've already got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero Roof Rack system installed there so we'll place it up there. We want to kind of center the front of the carrier to be sure we've got it kind of lined up right over the middle. Then we'll bring our U-bolt around the underside and we're going to thread on two wing nuts. We're just run these down until we get the slack out of them, just to kind of hold them in place. more

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9/8/2014 9:43:30 AM

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today, on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, we're going to do a test fit on the Rocky Mounts Tie Rod. This is roof-mounted fork-clamped style bike rack. The part number on it is RKY1014. To begin our test fit, we need to place the rack onto the roof line of our vehicle. As you can see my rubber straps are already separated. If they're not, just simply remove the cover, and that will allow you to pull them out. We're then going to bring the straps around the underside of our crossbar. more

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9/8/2014 9:38:08 AM

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Sonic- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Sonic we're going to do a test fit on the Kuat Trio. This is a roof-mounted fork clamp-style bike rack. The part number in the black and chrome is TR02. We also have this in a nice gun metal gray and orange; part number on that is RU01. As you can see, we've already got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system installed on the Sonic, so we'll begin our test fit simply by placing the rack up onto the roof. We're then going to take one of our black rubber-coated metal u-bolts, going to bring it around the underside of our crossbar, fit it up into the head of the carrier, and then we're going to thread on one of our cylinder nuts to hold it in place. Now that we have that one threaded on we'll continue with the second cylinder nut. more

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9/8/2014 9:34:57 AM

Rhino Rack MountainTrail Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox, we are going to do a test fit on the Rhino Rack Mountain Trail. This is a roof mounted fork clam style bike rack. The part number on it is RBC035. Now we've already got our Rhino Rack Vortec Roof Rack System installed. To begin our test fit, we'll pull the black cap off of the head of the carrier, stick it in our pocket for now. We'll then place our rack right up on the roof line. more

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9/3/2014 11:33:15 AM

Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox, we're going to do a test fit on the Thule Paceline. This is a roof mounted fork clamp style bike rack. The part number on it is TH527. Now we've already got our Thule Rapid Crossroads Roof Rack System installed on the Equinox, so we'll just place our rack right up onto the roof line. We need to separate our lower clamp to get it around the underside of our load bar, so we're going to press up on the gray and black lever, then up on the small black lever. That allows that clamp to come down. more

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9/2/2014 4:38:02 PM

Swagman Upright Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox we're going to be doing a test fit on the Swagman Upright. Now this is a frame clamp-style roof-mounted bike rack. The part number on it is S64720. We've already got our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system installed so we're going to begin our test fit by just placing our rack right up onto our load bars. We want to center the front upper portion of the clamp over our load bar. We'll then bring one of our metal u-bolts up around the underside. We'll fit it up through the head of the carrier. more

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9/2/2014 4:25:01 PM

Thule Sprint Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox, we're going to do a test fit on the Thule Sprint. This is a fork mount roof style bike rack. The part number on it is TH528. Now the sprint gives a completely tool-free installation, which is very nice. As you can see, we've got our 2 black rubber coated metal straps that are loose. We'll bring the front around the underside of the load bar, let the foot pack rest right on top, and here at the rear we'll slide our clamp forward and then bring it back so it is also sitting just on top of our load bar. more

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9/2/2014 3:57:13 PM

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 chevrolet equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox we're going to do a test fit on the Kuat Trio. This is a roof mounted fork clamp style bike rack. The black and chrome and that I have here today the part number TR02. We also have this in a nice looking gun metal gray and orange. That part number is RU01. We've already got the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system installed, so were going to begin our test fit by just placing our rack right up here on the roof line of the vehicle. As you can see I've got my clamp moved here in the back and my rear wheel straps, so it makes it a little bit back heavy, but once you move that forward itll take care of that. more

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9/2/2014 11:49:22 AM

Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Racks Review - 2014 Chevrolet Equinox- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Equinox, we're going to do a test fit on the Thule Big Mouth. This a roof mounted, frame clamped style bike rack, part number on it is TH599XTR. As you can see we've got our Thule Crossroads Roof Rack system that we've already installed on the Equinox. We'll begin our test fit by placing our rack right up onto our crossbars and we want to lift our clamp arms up. This is going to give us access to the wing nuts that are located on the top side here. We've got one on each side. We want to loosen these wing nuts up then we'll remove the lower portion of our clamp from them allowing them to hang down. This now give us the opportunity to bring our rack back. more

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8/29/2014 11:20:10 AM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Traverse- Video

Speaker: Today on our 2014 Chevy Traverse we're going to be test-fitting the Yakima Frontloader roof-mounted bike rack, part number Y02103. We'll begin our test-fit by placing the rack on top of our vehicle. We'll go ahead and do that now. I'm going to go ahead and open the doors on the vehicle just so I'm able to stand in them have a little bit more reach. For the front bar, as you can see there's the hook here on the front which runs all the way across the front of it and then a single hook at the back. What we're going to do is we're going to position to where we're going to close down the knob here on the front and that's going to bring that back jaw down on the bar. As we tighten it down on there it's going to bring both the two clamps of the jaw, or jaws of the clamp, excuse me, together. Nice thing of this rack with it having the style of fastening mechanism, you're able to put it on several different types of bars. If you have this style bar on one vehicle and then another style on a different vehicle, you can transfer it from vehicle to vehicle. With that tightened down we'll go ahead and go to our back bar and secure it back there. more

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7/3/2014 12:14:00 PM

Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Traverse- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevy Traverse, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima ForkLift roof-mounted Bike Rack part #Y02098. To begin our test-fit we're going to go ahead and place the rack on top of the vehicle. I'm going to open the doors here and that way I can stand in the doorway just for a little bit more height. So with our rack in position, the first thing that we're going to do is there's a T-bolt that goes in here. When it's in this position it will be stuck. If we place it in this position we can actually open this up. more

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7/3/2014 12:13:02 PM

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Cruze we're going to best fitting the Kuat Trio, a roof mounted bike rack, part number RU01. With our Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System installed on our vehicle, we're going to begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto our crossbars. At the front we'll take one of the black rubber coated metal u-bolts, place it around our load bar, and up through the head of the carrier. We can then thread on two cylinder nuts to hold it in place. We'll now take the second u-bolt and place it on the other side of the head of the carrier, thread on the two cylinder nuts here, and then we can take the provided tool and tighten them down. With all four cylinder nuts in the front tight, we'll move to the rear. Here we're going to completely remove one of the wing nuts, move the bolt so we have one on each side of our crossbar, bring the bolt back through the clamp, thread on our wing nut, and tighten them down. more

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5/27/2014 5:06:09 AM

Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Speaker: Today, on our 2014 Chevy Impala, we'll be test fitting the Yakima Forklift Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number Y02098. With the Yakima and Q Towers Roof Racks system on our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up on to the vehicles cross bars. Starting at the front, you will need to remove the skewer first so that you can slide the security cover and access the wing nut. Well need to loosen up the wing nut to position the front bracket around the underside of the front bar. With this done, well need to insert the silver T bolt into this slot on the bottom part of the bracket. Then we can go ahead and tighten it down. more

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4/25/2014 1:33:21 PM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevy Impala, we'll be test fitting the Yakima FrontLoader Roof Mounted Bike Rack. Part number Y02103. With the Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's crossbars. We'll need to make sure that the bar goes between the two sets of teeth at the front of the bike rack. Before tightening that down, we'll move to the rear and adjust to make sure the rear bracket is around the rear bar. Once that's done, we'll slide the silver T bolts into the slot of the bracket and turn it so it locks into place. We'll then tighten down the black wing nut to secure the rear part of the bike rack to the rear bar. more

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4/24/2014 11:21:42 AM

Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Impala, we'll be test fitting the Swagman Upright roof mounted bike rack, part number S64720. With the Yakima Q-towers roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle cross bars. Starting at the front, we'll need to pull out our hardware and take the silver U-bolts, go around the underside of the front bar and off through the predrilled holes of the head of the carrier. We'll then take our black wing nuts that thread down onto the silver U-bolts. Once both U-bolts are installed in the front, we'll go ahead and move to the rear, where this time where we'll take the silver U-bolt to go down through the predrilled holes of the bike rack. The silver U-bolt will go through the holes in the back plate. We'll then take our black wing nuts to thread down onto the silver U-bolts. more

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4/24/2014 11:16:00 AM

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevy Impala, we'll be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number S64710. With the Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's crossbars. Starting in the front we'll take the silver U-bolts to go around the underside of the front bar, and up through the pre-drilled holes of the head of the carrier. We'll then take our black wingnuts to thread down onto the silver U-bolts. Once the front is secured, we'll move to the rear, and this time we'll take the silver U-bolt to go down through the pre-drilled holes of the bike rack. We'll take the black plate, which the silver U-bolt will go through the holes of the black plate, and we'll take the black wingnuts to thread down onto the silver U-bolts. Once everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll need to double check to make sure the skewer is loose at the front and that our cam buckle strap is on down at the rear. more

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4/24/2014 11:15:30 AM

RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Impala, well be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number RKY1011. With the Yakima Q-towers roof rack system on our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto the vehicles crossbars. Well need to remove the black plastic cover at the front. Well then bring the rubber coated steel straps around the underside of the front bar and hook them into the connection points.Once thats done, youll notice the silver bolt that runs through the head of the carrier. Well use the included allen wrench to tighten down the silver bolt, which will bring the straps tightly around the front bar. Once thats done, we can replace the black plastic cover, and move to the rear. more

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4/22/2014 1:07:03 PM

Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Chevrolet Impala- Video

Speaker: Today on our 2014 Chevy Impala, well be test fitting the Kuat Trio Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number RU01.With the Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System on our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the bike rack directly onto the vehicles crossbars. Now move to the rear. Well loosen up the two wing nuts, so that we can position the rear bracket around the underside of the rear crossbar. Once this is done, we can reinstall our black wing nut and tighten it down to secure the rear part of the carrier to the rear crossbar.Moving back up to the front, well take the rubber coated steel U bolts to go around to the underside of the front bar, up through the predrilled holes at the head of the carrier. Well then take the cylindrical nuts, which will thread down onto the U-Bolts. Well then use the included wrench to tighten down the cylindrical nuts directly down onto the U-Bolts, which will secure the front part of the bike rack to the front crossbar. more

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4/22/2014 1:05:07 PM

SportRack Frame Mount Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe- Video

Today on our 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe we'll be test fitting the Sport Rack, roof mounted bike rack, Part #SR4611. With the factory roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly onto our crossbars. Here at the front platform, we'll bring our U-bolt around the underside of our front crossbar fitting the bolts back up through the head of our carrier. We'll secure it by placing a wing nut on each end of our U-bolt. Once we have those tightened down, we can repeat this process for the other side. Here at the rear, we'll place our plastic fitting between our bike rack and our rear crossbar. Then we'll drop our bolts through the top of the bike rack making sure that they go through the holes of the fitting then we'll secure it by tightening down a wing nut on each bolt. more

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1/23/2014 11:39:29 PM

Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Chevrolet Cruze- Video

Today on our 2013 Chevy Cruz we'll be test fitting the Thule Bigmouth roof mounted bike rack, part number TH599XTR. We'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack onto the vehicle's load bars. Starting with the rear we'll remove one of the wing nuts to position the rear bracket around the underside of the rear bar. We can then reinstall our wing nut and then slide it down. Moving up to the front, we can loosen up the black wing nuts to position the T-bolts into the slots of the brackets. We'll then tighten down the wing nuts and secure the front part of the bike rack to the front bar. Now that everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll undo the strap at the front and the rear and then loosen up the frame clamp. more

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9/12/2013 9:23:42 AM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Chevrolet Colorado- Video

Today on our this 2012 Chevrolet Colorado we are going to be testing the Yakama front loader roof mounted bike carrier for part number y02103. To mount this bike area up on top of our vehicle we are going to set it on top of the front crossbars. Well the hand know on the front of the bike rack to tightened down the front clamp around the cross bar. In the rear, we are going to use the wing nut, T-Bolt and clamp to secure the rear half of the bike rack around our rear bar. With both clamps secure, our bike rack is mounted and we are ready to load up. To load our bike rack the first thing we need to do is open up the front wheel hoop all the way. more

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4/30/2012 3:34:19 PM

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Chevrolet Malibu- Video

Alright, today in this 2012 Chevrolet Malibu, we're going to test fit the TieRod Bicycle Rack from RockyMounts, product number RKY1014. This bike rack will fit a variety of low bars. In this case, we'll be using elliptical-shaped bars. This will also work with round and square bars. So they're easy-to-install racks so we'll get right to it. We'll take the front end of the rack and slide the straps underneath the crossbar until it catches on the other side, and then we'll install a clamp on the back crossbar. more

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1/12/2012 3:25:52 PM

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier- Video

Alright, today on this 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier we're going to do a test fit of a TieRod Bicycle Rack from RockyMounts. This is product number RKY1014. Alright, now our car's been equipped with the square crossbars on it, so it's just a matter of attaching our bike rack. We'll take the straps located at the front. We'll run them around the crossbar into the hatch at the front. And then we'll go ahead and slide our clamp through the crossbar into place. more

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1/5/2012 8:41:05 AM

Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier- Video

Alright, today on this 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier, we're going to do a test fit of product number TH513 from Thule. This is the Domestique Bicycle Rack. Now, the car has already been outfitted with a Thule Roof Rack System with the square bars. We're also going to start our bike rack assembled according to instructions. So we can go straight to mounting the bicycle rack to the crossbars. We'll start off by taking the front clamp, put in the crossbar, then we'll slide our second clamp in position and around the second crossbar. more

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1/5/2012 2:45:47 AM

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