etrailer | Yakima OnRamp Electric Bike Rack Review

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AJ: What's up everybody, it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be checking out the Yakima OnRamp for 1-1/4" Hitches. It's a great way to transport your e-bikes wherever you need them to go.And it's easy. You see how I used the built-in ramp already It's way easier than just lifting up the e-bike, set it in place. The ramp will move to the other one too. So when you load your second bike, you can also use the ramp.It holds on to the frame up here and you can loosen it and move it all around.

It's customizable so if you have any kind of frame, this'll fit it. It can spin, you can see that. It'll go towards whatever part of the frame you want to attach it to and holds it nice and tight. Then down here at the bottom, the wheels strap in, which is good because a lot of e-bikes have fenders. So if yours has fenders and you've been looking for a bike rack that doesn't interfere with them, because some of them will attach to the top.

And when you go to tie them down, they can't go around the fender or underneath the fender, it's just bad, it's going to damage your fender. So this one's going to be out of the way, nothing's down here to bother. So we'll leave that in there, go to the front one. Run it through, tighten it down, your bike is secure. All these things work together to make this bike rack really good for e-bikes, make it super easy to transport them.

Let's check it out.Before I continue talking about the bike rack, let's talk about the ramp though. Since it is the OnRamp so it's an important piece of this bike rack. Black powder coated steel just like the rest of the bike rack so it's going to hold up into the elements if you leave it out. It doesn't seem fragile, it's all one solid piece and I like that. Comparing it to the EasyFold.

Thule makes a bike rack that has a ramp too. That one kind of folds in on itself in three sections, which is cool that it gets nice and compact, but it kind of loses some of that sturdiness that this one has. And it's all one solid piece. It's easier when you run that e-bike up there. It doesn't shake as much in like different sections as you go up the ramp. I just liked this one overall better because it's a nice solid piece of metal.Now the other thing I'd want to know too is how well it does actually attach. You have these two tabs here that come up a little bit that you kind of just tilt it, put them in there and put it back down. So it's easy to install on any of the sides you need it to be there. And then I want to show you. Me moving around here at the base, just to show you that it doesn't pop right back out because I'd be worried about that myself and like, well, if I slightly kicked the ramp, is it just going to fall on the ground Is it going to cause problems when I get an e-bike No, looks like I can move it quite a bit and you can see it's not popping out on its own. So I like that. That gives me a little more peace of mind that it's going to stay on there just in case things go wrong. When you're going up the ramp, it's going to stay right there in place. You actually have to tilt it all the way back up to pull it back out.Another thing is it stores on the bike rack itself. So you don't have to worry about finding a place for this in your vehicle, because I wouldn't want to have to try and find a way to wedge this in the trunk or the back seat and get in the way. So it comes right back here to this knob. Hopefully you guys can see it. You just unscrew that. There's a hole in the middle of the ramp that you drop down through the bolt and then put this back on top. And now your ramp's put away, out of the way and you can go to your adventure.Now I said it was customizable. You can move this up and down the center mass so that's going to accommodate a bunch of different bike frames. So even if you're not using an e-bike to carry on the second one, this will adjust to even a kid's bike. It can come down there and hold it. And if it's an e-bike and you need to move it so that the handlebars don't touch and the seat don't touch, there's some other things you can do, like shift this tray. You can't see it by just looking at it, but underneath not only can you adjust the tray back and forth, but you can move where the strap locations are.So if you want to move the tray, you can just undo the knob down here on both sides and it'll shift from side to side. So like I said, if the handlebars come too close to the seat on your other bike and you