RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Today on our 2013 Kia Optima, we'll be test fitting the Rockymounts TieRod Stretch roof mounted bike rack, part number RKY1011. With a Thule Rapid Traverse roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin by placing the Stretch directly onto our load bars. Here at the front, we'll bring the rubber coated straps around our front load bar, remove the black plastic cover, and fit the straps back into the head of the carrier. We can then use an Allen key to tighten the Allen bolt which will tighten our straps around our front bar. With the straps tight, we can then replace our black plastic cover. We'll remove one of the Allen bolts to bring our clamp around our rear bar. We'll fit the Allen bolt through the clamp, and then tighten both Allen bolts down with an Allen key. With the front and rear secured, we can go ahead and undo our rear strap, and make sure our skewer at the front is loose. We'll grab our bike, place it onto our bike rack, and drop our front forks down onto our skewer. We'll secure the bike first by tightening our skewer, and then move to the rear, and tighten the wheel strap. With our bike all loaded up, we're ready to go. That completes today's test fit of the Rockymounts TieRod Stretch roof mounted bike rack, part number RKY1011, on our 2013 Kia Optima. . more

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9/10/2013 2:44:12 PM

Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Today on our 2013 Kia Optima, we'll be test fitting the Yakima Forklift roof mounted bike rack, part number Y02098. With the Yakima round bar roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin by placing our Forklift directly onto our crossbars. Here at the front, we'll bring our front clamp around our front bar, drop the t-bolt through the appropriate slots, and tighten using the t-handle. Then we can remove our skewer. We'll slide the slotted bracket up around our t-handle, and re-install our skewer. Here at the rear, we'll bring our rear bracket around our rear bar, drop the t-bolt through the appropriate slot, and then use the t-handle to secure it around our rear bar. We'll go ahead and undo the rear wheel strap, and make sure our skewer at the front is loose. We'll grab our bike, place it onto our bike rack, and drop our front forks down onto our skewer. We'll secure the bike first by tightening our skewer, and then move to the rear, and tighten with the wheel strap. Just like that, our bike's all loaded up, and we're ready to go. That completes today's test fit for the Yakima Forklift roof mounted bike rack, part number Y02098, on our 2013 Kia Optima. . more

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9/10/2013 1:11:22 PM

Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Today on our 2013 Kia Optima, we'll be test fitting the Yakima Frontloader wheel mounted bike rack, part number Y02103. With the Yakima round bar roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the Frontloader directly onto our crossbars. Here at the front, we'll make sure that our clamps are around our front bar. Then we can use the hand knob on the front end to tighten our clamps around our front crossbar. Here at the rear, we'll bring our rear clamp around our rear bar, drop the t-bolt through the appropriate slot, and then tighten it down with the t-handle on top. With the front and rear secured, we can undo our rear wheel strap, and open up our wheel cradle at the front. We'll grab our bike, place it onto our bike rack. We'll secure it first here at the front wheel. At the rear wheel, we can simply tighten with the wheel strap. With our bike all loaded up, we're ready to go. That completes today's test fit for the Yakima Frontloader wheel mounted bike rack, part number Y02103, on our 2013 Kia Optima. . more

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9/10/2013 1:11:22 PM

Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Speaker: Today on our 2013 Kia Optima we'll be test fitting the Thule Big Mouth Roof Mountain Bike Rack Part No. TH-599XTR. With the Thule Traverse Roof Rack System assembled on our vehicle we'll begin our test fit by placing the Big Mouth directly on to our load bars. Here at the front we'll bring our clamps around our front bar, fit the two slots through the clamp and use the wing nut on top to tighten it down. We'll do this for both clamps at the front of our carrier. Here at the rear we'll undo one of the wing nuts to bring our clamp around our rear bar. We'll feed the brackets through the bolts and then make sure both wing nuts are tight around our bar. Then we can undo our wheel strap and make sure our frame jaw is open. more

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9/10/2013 10:02:32 AM

Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Today on our 2013 Kia Optima we will be test fitting the Swagman Rooftop bike rack, part number S64720. With a Thule rapid traverse roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly onto our load bars. Here at the front platform, we'll take a U-bolt and feed it around the underside of our load bar, well bring the U-bolts back up through the platform and secure it in place with two wing nuts. We can then repeat that process for the other side of the front platform. Here at the rear we'll drop the U-bolt through the top of our bike rack, making sure that U-bolt go around our rear load bar then we can fit our bracket through the bolts and tighten in place with the wing nuts. With the front and rear secured, we can go ahead and open up our frame jaws and undo each wheel strap. We'll grab our bike and place it onto our bike rack and we'll secure it first by bringing the frame jaws up around the lower part of the frame and using the hand knob to secure it. We'll then move to each wheeland tighten with the wheel strap.With our bike all loaded up we are ready to go. That completes today's test fit of the Swagman Rooftop bike rack, part number S64720 on our 2013 Kia Optima. . more

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9/10/2013 10:02:03 AM

Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Speaker: Today on out 2013 Kia Optima we'll be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down Roof Mountain Bike Rack Part No. S-64710. With the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System assembled on our vehicle we'll begin our test fit by placing the fork down directly on to our load bars. Here at the front platform we'll bring our U-bolts around the underside of our load bars picking them up through the platform and securing them in place with the wing nuts. We'll do this for both U-bolts at the front platform. Here at the rear we'll take our U-bolt and drop it through the top of our bike rack. We'll fit the bolts through our bracket and secure it with a wing nut. With the front and rear secured we can go ahead and undo our rear wheel strap and loosen up our skewer at the front. more

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9/9/2013 3:17:42 PM

RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Kia Optima- Video

Today on our 2013 Kia Optima, we'll be test fitting the RockyMounts Tierod Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number RKY1014. With the Thule rapid reverse roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the tierod directly onto our load bars. Here at the front we remove the black plastic cover, we'll bring a rubber coated straps around our front bar and secure our straps in the head of our carrier. We can then use an Allen key to tighten the Allen bolt which will tighten our straps around our front bar. Once that's done we can then replace our black plastic cover. Here at the rear, we'll undo the Allen bolts to bring our rear clamp around our rear bar. We'll place the Allen bolt through the holes in the clamp and tighten our rear clamp around our rear bar with our Allen key. more

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9/9/2013 10:04:42 AM

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