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Hi everyone, it’s Evangeline here at etrailer. And today we’ll be taking a look at our Hollywood Rack Sport Rider SE Bike Rack for your 2-Electric Bikes, right here on our 2011 Monaco Knight, Motorhome. So right off the bat, this has an 80 pound weight capacity for your extra-heavy electric bikes. So we’ll talk about those specs. We’ll talk about those measurements. But we are gonna focus on our motorhome today.
That way you can see how does it work with your RV. So before we get any further let’s first question, will your bike fit How large are your handlebars As you can see here, we’ve got pretty long handlebars in that we we’re not able to load up our bike in the closest cradle. You can fix that by moving the wheels back and forth. So you’re gonna have those trays that are adjustable, but that’s gonna be on you finding the best fit for your different types of bikes. So, we’ll take some measurements, that way you can see if yours will fit too.
The way our bike is mounted to this rack is we have three touch-points. One and two are gonna be the wheel straps holding down our front and our rear wheels. The third is gonna be our frame mount. So this makes it interesting for bikes of different shapes and sizes. If you have those smaller children’s bikes, some of your women’s bikes, especially those step-through bikes.
Since this has a hook, you may need to get a frame-adapter bar. And since this is lockable, that may affect whether you can lock your bikes up or not. But for most of your bikes, this is a perfectly fine way to make sure your bike is secure by the frame. So I’m gonna take our bike off and I’m gonna start at the wheel straps. We have a lever here, press that lever to disengage the strap, that allows you to lift that up, and just rotate it out of the way.
So it doesn’t get caught-up in the spokes. So that’s one strap, and here is our second strap. Get that up, out of the way and now we go over to our frame mount. So if this is unlocked, you should be able to just press down on that button and lift up on that hook. And from there, you can lift your bike off. With this having an 80 pound weight capacity, keep that in mind that you’re gonna have to be lifting your bike up and off of that bike rack. If that’s gonna be a major issue for you, you may wanna check out something like the Yakima OnRamp, instead. With the bike off, we get to take a closer look at the bike rack itself. So notice how we have these really large wheel hoops. These can move back worth with these knobs to accommodate bike wheel bases of different lengths. You also have these large straps. So that combined with the straps and the wheel hoop size means you can carry bike tire widths of up to 5″. So even your extra wide fat tire bikes, perfectly fine. Some pro-tips when using this bike rack is one, make sure that your straps are always in their receivers. That way they’re not flopping around as you drive around. Also just double-check those knobs. Yes, you do get a maximum wheel base of up to 60″ with this all the way out. But it’s also nice to double-check to make sure they’re nice and secure, before you drive around. Some features of this bike rack is that you can tilt it away. That’s accessed by this knob right over here. But, on our motorhome, that’s usually not an important feature. So let’s take some measurements instead to talk about how much this adds to the back of our motorhome. That’s gonna be 18″ from the end of our grill. Our ground clearance is going to measured at the end of the rack to the ground, and that sits at 23 1/4″. That’s also gonna be kind of where your bikes are going to sit. So with this, having a weight capacity of 80 pounds. That’s how high up you’re gonna have to lift your bikes. Now we can also fold this up to be more portable. Let’s say you’re at your campground and you don’t wanna take up too much space. So, we have this pin and this is gonna hold up your mast. You wanna take this out first. Your mast is then going to tilt-down and then you wanna make sure that it’s secured with that pin you just took out. So get that lined up with a tab, and then turn to secure it. Now, you can fold-up on your rack, and you have two knobs over here, as well as a pin. So you’re gonna wanna get that pin and that clip, get that out. And then you’re gonna pull on this knob and then you’re gonna lift up
Hi everyone it’s evangeline here at e-trailer and today we’ll be taking a look at our hollywood rack sport rider s e bike rack for your two electric bikes right here on our 2011 monaco night motorhome so right off the bat this has an 80 pound weight capacity
For your extra heavy electric bikes so we’ll talk about those specs we’ll talk about those measurements but we are going to focus on our motorhome today that way you can see how does it work with your rv so before we get any further let’s first question will your bike fit how large
Are your handlebars as you can see here we’ve got pretty long handlebars in that we were not able to load up our bike in the closest cradle you can fix that by moving the wheels back and forth so you’re gonna have those trays that are adjustable but that’s gonna be on you
Finding the best fit for your different types of bikes we’ll take some measurements that we can see if yours will fit too so the way our bike is mounted to this rack is we have three touch points one and two are gonna be the wheel straps holding down our front
And our rear wheels the third is going to be our frame mount so this makes it interesting for bikes of different shapes and sizes if you have those smaller children’s bikes some of your women’s bikes especially those step-through bikes since this has a hook you may need to get a frame adapter bar
And since this is lockable that may affect whether you can lock your bikes up or not but for most of your bikes this is a perfectly fine way to make sure your bike is secure by the frame so i’m going to take our bike off and
I’m going to start at the wheel straps we have a lever here press that lever to disengage the strap that allows you to lift that up and just rotate it out of the way so it doesn’t get caught up in the spokes so that’s one strap and here is our second strap
Get that up out of the way and now we go over to our frame mount so if this is unlocked you should be able to just press down on that button and lift up on that hook and from there you can lift your bike off with this having an 80 pound weight
Capacity keep that in mind that you’re gonna have to be lifting your bike up and off of that bike rack if that’s gonna be a major issue for you you may want to check out something like the yakima on ramp instead with the bike off we get to take a
Closer look at the bike rack itself so notice how we have these really large wheel hoops these can move back and forth with these knobs to accommodate bike wheel bases of different lengths you also have these large straps so that combined with the straps and the wheel
Hoop size means you can carry like tire widths of up to five inches so even your extra wide fat tire bikes perfectly fine some pro tips when using this bike rack is one make sure that your straps are always in the receivers that way they’re not flopping around as you drive around
Also just double check those knobs yes you do get a maximum wheelbase of up to 60 inches with this all the way out but it’s also nice to double check to make sure they’re nice and secure before you drive around some features of this bike
Rack is that you can tilt it away that’s accessed by this knob right over here but on our motor home that’s usually not an important feature so let’s take some measurements instead to talk about how much this adds to the back of our motorhome that’s going to be 18 inches
From the end of our grill our ground clearance is going to be measured at the end of the rack to the ground and that sits at 23 and a quarter inches that’s also going to be kind of where your bikes are going to sit so with this
Having a weight capacity of 80 pounds that’s how high up you’re gonna have to lift your bikes now we can also fold this up to be more portable let’s say you’re at your campground and you don’t want to take up too much space so we have this pin and
This is going to hold up your mast you want to take this out first your mask is then going to tilt down and then you want to make sure that it’s secured with that pin you just took out to get that lined up with the tab and
Then turn to secure now you can fold up on your rack and you have two knobs over here as well as a pin so you’re going to want to get that pin and that clip get that out and then you’re going to pull on this
Knob and then you’re going to lift up on the rack once that rack is up you can see how that knob secures it good news is it’s a sturdy rack so even though our closest point is an inch away from that bumper it’s not getting any closer than that
So this utilizes an interesting way of fitting into our hitch we have a two inch shank fits right into our two inch hitch receiver this has its own hitch pin alignment so that’s helpful you then line it up with your hitch pin and lock so that lock is going to be
Key to like to the locks on your hooks that way you can secure both your bikes and your bike rack with these keys now you’re also going to have this anti-route mechanism here it holds onto that hitch pin and secures it to your hitch receiver so always just double
Check that this is nice and tight my personal thoughts about the hollywood rack sport rider se is that this definitely has probably the highest weight capacity for your electric bikes and that can be carried with your motorhome a similar offering from hollywood racks is the rv rider and that
Has the same weight capacity but that one is also compatible with your fifth wheels and your travel trailers the downsides to this rack is as you saw it gets really close to your bumper so if you have longer handlebars it may be an issue but that’s pretty much an issue
With any rack you have on your hitch just double check those measurements make sure that you have the clearance but that was a look at the hollywood rack sport rider se for two electric bikes on our 2011 monaco knight motorhome my name is evangeline and i hope you enjoyed the journey