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Hi everyone, it's Evangeline Wright here at etrailer.com. This is gonna be the Rocky Mounts Guide Rail. It's a two-bike platform rack that makes it easier for you to unload and load up your bikes and this one is designed for inch and a quarter hitches. So even if you have a smaller vehicle you can still have the whole adventure. (upbeat music plays) If you already have a two inch hitch receiver on your vehicle, you don't really need to watch this video. Check out the Rocky Mounts Guide Rail Bike Rack for two inch hitches right here at etrailer.

I have a pretty cool video you can check out to see the full specs and measurements and features. Here we are gonna focus on our smaller sedan, smaller vehicles, and smaller hitch sizes. So what types of bicycles do you have This can work with pretty much any bike of different shapes and different sizes whether you have a larger mountain bike with a long wheel base or a light carbon fiber frame bike, you have zero frame contact so no matter what type of frame you have, it doesn't really matter even for your different tire sizes. Thin road bike tires, wider mountain bike tires. Now the maximum tire width though is gonna be up to three inches.

So if you do have larger fat bike tires, this actually might not work for you if they're over three inches. Now for the bike weight capacity, that's where it gets pretty impressive. It has a capacity of 60 pounds per bike, so for your heavy electric bikes, this is approved. Now the downside though, to that weight capacity is you are limited to a class two inch in the quarter hitch. If you have a class one, it might not be strong enough to carry around those heavy e-bikes.

Now for different tires, not only the width matters but also what type of wheel do you have on your bike For example, I have some 29ers on my bike so I can have this set to a top setting, but if I had a smaller tire I would need to adjust this. So it is technically an easy adjustment. You are gonna need to use two tools an allen key on one side and then a wrench on the other side. These stamp tools are included so just use them to loosen that bolt With the nut and washer off. You can just push this other bolt out and this slides up and down to the height you need it to be.

For example, we'll have it at the second hole. Great for if you have 27 inch large tires and try to find where the hole lines up and pop it through. So kind of a hassle compared to the other bike brands that have a similar design like the Inno Tire Hold or the Kuat Piston, but does get the job done, you still can change it and you have the tools included. In the beginning of this video. You saw me take the bike off of the rack and it was a very fast process. I also put it right back on. That's because this is a dual wheel mount meaning you just have these little levers here and then you can move this out of the way. Take your bike off. Because of that there's zero frame contact. You're not worrying about warping or cracking your frame you're not worried about having to get an adapter for a step through frame. But also this can work with really long wheel bases because of where it starts ratcheting this can go all the way out even to the ground to make it easier for you to unload your bike, but compared to other dual wheel mounts, it starts clicking right there. See how far apart that is If you have wheel bases up to 55 inches it can still hold onto them. This also gives you more versatility for if you need to avoid handlebars and seats, you can just move your bike a little further out. So those are the types of bikes this rack can carry but what about the types of cars that can carry this rack I did mention that it's an inch and a quarter bike rack and that it requires a class two inch and quarter hitch receiver. So just double check the differences between class one, class two and make sure yours is class two. And depending on, let's say you have a sedan with a trunk or a hatchback with a hatch, you can tilt this rack away to get access to that cargo area. There's a lever underneath. You pull the lever and then you drop this down to a tilt. It actually has a pretty deep tilt. So now you can open up your trunks, your hatches. You can also hang out here, switch out your shoes and grab your waters and helmets because your bikes are tilted away on the rack you don't have to take them off. The downside to that deep tilt though is all of that you're gonna have to lift. So if you have heavy