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Hey everyone, I'm Evangeline right here at Etrailer. Since every bike rack fits every car differently, we're gonna focus in on how the Hollywood Racks Destination 4 fits on the 2025 Mazda CX-30. The Destination 4 is super popular because it's one of the lighter platform four bike carriers out there, especially since it has a lot of versatility with the types of bikes it can carry. This is one of the few platform racks that I've seen carry a really small children's bike. So if you and your whole family or all your friends all wanna go for a bike ride, this can be a bike rack that can take you there. To compensate for its entry level price as well, its super lightweight design, you do lose out on some features you get with other racks.
Mainly the ability to tilt the whole bike rack away with the bikes on. So if you need access into your cargo area, you may just have to reach around the back seats or take off the bikes. The way the bikes are secured is you have three touch points. So one and two are going to be your wheel straps, very straightforward. Strap goes around the wheel, tightens down.
Or you press this lever and you can then remove the strap. So there's strap number one, and then strap number two. The third touch point though, that's gonna be the frame mount. And I actually really like this design. Compared to other entry level racks where there are hooks that hook down, this is actually a 360 degree rotational clamp, so that way if you need to clamp it up here, clamp it down there, clamp it over there, wherever on the bike that makes the most sense for you, you can, in this case, it's right below our water bottle cage.
So what I do is I press the lever as I hold onto the bike. I'll put an elbow around the bike. That's the best way to do it. And then I can release that frame mount while supporting the bike, pivot this around, and from here, we can take the bike off. So here's my trick to it.
Just slide the bike on over til that mass is right where the opening between the wheel and the frame. And that way you don't have to lift as far to get the bike up and over. And now we can open up our hatch door. Even with this mast up, there's still clearance between the hatch, and if we kept all of our stuff in here, we can now get it. If you'd like to switch out your shoes before or after your ride, you can do so. So definitely a little bit more work compared to some of your more premium bike racks, but still, for the ability to carry around four bikes without taking up as much space, awesome. And what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna bring this mast down as if we we inchesre to move it into the compact position, mainly because I wanna show you the little trick to it. There's a stand holding this mast up, so you have to loosen this knob here so that you can lift this stand out of the way. Just slide that on over, and from here, you can then rotate this mast in whichever direction makes the most sense. And then I always try to use one of the straps to secure the mast in the down position. And that way as you drive around, this won't be bouncing around. With the ability to carry around four bikes, will this take up a lot of space Well, we'll find out. So measuring from the bumper of our Mazda to the end of the bike rack, I have it at 39 inches, so a little over three feet, which sounds like a lot, but compared to some other racks, not that much. And also you already have a smaller vehicle, so you still are at a good point for fitting into garages and small parking spots. Just double check those measurements. Next measurement is gonna be ground clearance. So with this bike rack and this vehicle, it sits kind of low to the ground. In fact, our hitch receiver, that bottom part is about 10 inches and a half off the ground. So the end of the bike rack is 18 and a half inches. The center of the bike rack is 23, almost 24 inches off the ground. And what that means is this has a slight rise to it, so that when you go over potholes or speed bumps or up steep driveways, you're much less likely to bottom out and scrape against the ground. This keeps your bikes a bit more elevated, which is a really good fit with our CX-30 here. And you can see here by the hitch, our shank, which gives you that rise. Now we're over here by that sh
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