Swagman Pick-Up Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2022 Ram 1500- Video

Hi everyone. Aiden here at etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Swagman Pickup Bed-mounted Bike Rack on our 2022 RAM 1500. So this is going to be a bar that goes between the bed rails of your truck and holds in place through friction. You can see as I pull up on it it's staying in there nice and secure and it gets a good hold on the bikes too. This is going to be a fork-mounted bike rack which means we remove the front wheel on our bike and hold it by the forks here using the included quick release skewer. more

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10/11/2022 1:52:59 PM

Swagman Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2022 Ram 1500- Video

Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Swagman Patrol here on our 2022 Ram 1500. Now, Swagman Patrol is a bike rack. This one's unique, because it actually mounts in your truck bed here between the bed rails, and allows you to mount the bikes by the forks. This comes with a nine millimeter quick-release skewer or works with a 15 millimeter thru-axle. You can get other adapters sold separately to adapt to different bikes, but this is what it comes with. more

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10/11/2022 1:52:51 PM

Yakima Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2022 Ram 1500 Classic- Video

Hi, everyone. Aidan here with etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Yakima GateKeeper Tailgate Pad here on our 2022 Ram 1500 Classic. Now, it's going to be a great way to carry up to six bikes to your destination. That's really nice because a lot of hitch bike racks only go up to four bikes. There are options out there that can carry up to six, but they're just not as common. more

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9/2/2022 5:38:18 PM

Swagman Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2022 Ram 1500 Classic- Video

Hi, everyone Aiden here with etrailer.com Today we're gonna be taking a look at the Swagman Paramount tailgate pad here on our 2022 Ram 1500 classic. Now, a tailgate pad is a great way to get a lot of bikes to your destination. With the Paramount here specifically we've got straps and room for up to seven bikes. Now, if you're looking at other bike rack options like a hitch mounted bike rack or carrying them on your roof, you're gonna have a hard time getting up to seven bikes carried. In many cases, with the hitch bike rack, you can only get up to six. So this is a great way to get those bikes to our destination safely. more

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9/2/2022 5:38:10 PM

Swagman Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2022 Ram 1500 Classic S64760- Video

Hi, everyone. Aiden here with etrailer.com. And today we're gonna be taking a look at the Swagman Tailwhip Tailgate Pad. Here for your full size trucks, on our 2022 Ram 1500 Classic. Now, this is going to be a great way to carry up to five bikes on your truck tailgate right here. Kind of draped over and protected on this pad here. more

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9/2/2022 5:38:02 PM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2019 Ram 1500 Classic- Video

Adam: Hi everyone. Adam with etrailer.com. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Thule Gatemate Pro. What this is going to do, it's going to allow you to haul your bikes without purchasing any hitch or any hitch mounted accessories. This is going to be able to hold up to six bikes at one time. It's a nice look as well as the material that is used for this product. more

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8/5/2019 6:27:16 PM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2018 Ram 1500- Video

Speaker 1: Today in our 2018 Ram 1500, we're doing a test fit of the Thule Gate Mate Tailgate Pad and Bike Rack. Part number TH824. This is an aid for full-size trucks and it's going to measure 62 inches wide. So, the first thing you'll notice is that we have two of our three tie-downs already secured. We're going to show you how we secure the other one. There are couple different ways to do it. more

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10/9/2017 8:57:10 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2017 Ram 2500- Video

Today on our 2017 RAM 2500 we're doing a test fit of the Thule Insta-Gater Truck Bed Single Bike Rack. That part number is TH501. Now we already have this installed with our bike attached. I'm going to jump up into our truck bed and show you how we secure it down. To actually hold our bike in place we have a wheel hook which is going to actually sit in the back of our wheel. That's going to push our front part of our tire up against our tailgate. more

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12/12/2016 8:45:02 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2017 Ram 2500- Video

Today on our 2017 Ram 2500, we're doing a test fit of the Thule Gate Mate Tailgate Pad and Bike Rack. This is for full-sized trucks, part number TH824. This is going to measure 62" wide. We already have it draped over our tailgate. We just took the back and set it over the top. We're going to show you how we tighten this down. We've got three straps in front with three buckles in the back that we're going to attach them to. more

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12/12/2016 8:44:30 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2016 Ram 2500- Video

Today on our 2016 Ram 2500, we're doing a test-fit of the Thule Gate Mate Tailgate Pad and Bike Rack. This one is for full-sized trucks. Part number TH824. It is also 62 inches in width. We have it thrown on our vehicle here. It's just going to drape over the top there, and to install it, we're going to take each of our straps and we're going to feed it up underneath our tailgate. It just feeds up underneath here between the tailgate and the truck bed. more

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6/23/2016 11:22:54 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2016 Ram 2500 TH501- Video

Today on our Ram 2016 2500, we're doing a test fit of the Thule Insta-Gater Truck Bed Bike Rack. That part number is TH501. We already have our bike secured to our truck bed bike rack. We're first going to show you how you do that and then we'll go over some features. Climb up into our bed here. You'll see that our front tire is up against our tailgate here. more

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6/23/2016 11:22:50 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2016 Ram 1500- Video

Today on this 2016 Ram 1500 we're going to be showing you the Thule Insta-Gater Truck Bed bike rack, part number TH501. How the bike is actually attached to the rack it's going to have 1 point of contact and that's going to be at the wheel hook here. That holds it in place while it's in the bed of your truck. To loosen that up there's a button at the bottom here. You push that in and that will loosen up the hook enabling you to lower it and take out the bike. To put it in place, it just ratchets into place like so. We'll go ahead and loosen that up, lower it down. more

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2/29/2016 10:26:06 AM

Softride Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2016 Ram 1500- Video

Today, on this 2016 Ram 1500, we're going to be test fitting the Softride Shuttle Pad Tailgate Bike Carrier, part number SR26457. Now to begin we're going to go ahead and take the Shuttle Pad and just set it up and over our tailgate. Then next what we're going to do is we're going to take these straps and feed them in between the tailgate and the bed of the truck. There's a couple ways you can do this. You can either just try to get them through without opening the tailgate or you can open the tailgate and feed them through. Try it this way first. more

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2/29/2016 9:30:13 AM

Inno Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2016 Ram 1500- Video

Today on this 2016 RAM1500 we are going to test fitting the inno velo gripper bike rack for truck beds, part number INRT201. As you can see, we already have the bike installed on our clamps. If you come over here, we will show off some of the features here. It grips it at 2 points of contact to the bike's frame at these wheel mounts here. It has these strips that hold it in place, as well as these anker points on the clamps so you can have additional straps to hold them in place which you can find on etrailer.com. Let's go ahead and remove those straps and take the bike and get it out of the way. more

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2/29/2016 9:18:55 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2011 Ram 3500- Video

Today on this 2011 Ram 3500, we're going to be test-fitting the Thule Gate Mate Tailgate Pad and Bike Rack for Full-Size Trucks. This is 62 inches wide for your larger tailgates. Just throw it over there. You'll see it's nice and padded here and it has this little door so you can open up your tailgate when needed. Now to install this, we need to take these straps and guide them in between the tailgate and the bed. Feed them through. more

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1/14/2016 10:17:05 AM

Swagman Pick Up Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ram 1500- Video

Today on our 2012 Ram 1500 we're going to be doing a test fit of the Swagman Pick-Up Truck Bed-Mounted Bike Rack. This is going to be for your fork style, inside the bed of your vehicle. It's going to be Part Number S64702. As you can see we do have the Ram box set up here today. We'll be having this rack here on the shortest set up. With it in all the way closed up as far as it will go, it won't quite go in. more

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4/6/2015 2:56:06 PM

Swagman Pick Up Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2015 Ram 2500- Video

Today on our 2015 Ram 2500, we're going to be doing a test fit of this Swagman pickup truck bed mounted bike carrier. This is going to be for two bikes, to be fork mounted inside the bed of your truck. This is going to be part number S64702. Let's go ahead and get it fitted on here. All right, first thing is we're going to do once we get up in here in your truck bed is to make sure that the piece here is unlocked. If the button is in, it means that it's locked. more

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4/1/2015 9:57:22 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2012 Ram 1500- Video

Today on our 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 we're going to be doing a test fit on the Thule Gate Mate. This is going to be your Tailgate Pad for your bicycles, it'll be Part Number TH823. This is the 54 inch edition, there is also a 62, but we're going to be doing the 54 because this truck does have the Ram boxes. The built in toolboxes in the tailgate so this will be for more of the compact bed sizes. Also if you have a bigger one, you'll want the larger of the 2. As you can see this fits in there very nicely, both sides not even making contact. more

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3/27/2015 9:39:19 AM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2015 Ram 1500- Video

Presenter: Today on our 2015 Ram 1500, we're going to be going over the Thule GateMate. This is part number TH824. This is going to be your bike protector, it's going to go over your tailgate. Just slide it on, just like that. You're going to have multiple loops on top that you can run bungees through. You'll still have access to your handle for your tailgate. Simply, what we're going to do is go ahead and take our straps and run them through into the bed of our truck. more

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2/11/2015 2:03:44 PM

Swagman Pick Up Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2015 Ram 1500- Video

Today on our 2015 Ram 1500, we're going to go ahead and do a test fit of the Swagman Pick-Up Truck-Bed-Mounted 2-Bike Rack. This would be Part Number S64702. First thing we're going to do is you're going to locate the locking mechanism. We'll go ahead and take our key, insert it with the tip down, and go ahead and turn that one full turn, and pull it out. That will allow the knob to be out here to where we can push the nipple in, and pull that part down. With that part down, we will go ahead and place the edge of this on the line on our bed. more

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2/11/2015 1:15:28 PM

Thule Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2014 Ram 1500- Video

Today, on our 2014 Ram 1500, we're going to be taking a look at the Thule Gate Mate. This is a padded tailgate cover that'll also act as a bike rack. Its part number is TH824. To begin our test fit, we're going to place the Gate Mate right up over our tailgate. This is the one designed for the wider width, so it's 62" wide. As you'll see, we're going to have 3 straps hanging off the front of it. These straps need to be fed around the underside of our tailgate, and we'll fit them into the clips that are on the backside. more

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8/22/2014 5:43:27 PM

Swagman Pick Up Truck Bed Bike Racks Review - 2014 Ram 1500- Video

Today on our 2014 Ram 1500, we're going to be test fitting the Swagman Pickup, this is a bed mounted two bike rack. It's designed with the fork clamp style bike holders. It's part number is S64702. To begin the test fit, we first need to roughly size our bike rack. To do this, we're going to pull out on the side here on the passenger side. It's a ratcheting style system, so as you pull it out, the small catch here is going to catch in and hold that position in for us. Slide it out far enough to where it makes contact with the bed rail, then we'll find a fixed point to use on both sides to be sure we have both of the bed rail holders in line with one another. more

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7/15/2014 3:19:49 PM

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