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Randy: Hey, guys! It's Randy here at etrailer.com. Today, we're taking a look at a four bike rack from Toule. This is their Hitching Post Pro. This is an extremely popular bike rack. It's recommended by our experts all the time for customers that are looking for a very high-quality rack that is cost effective. This fits the bill really well.

Toule does an exceptional job with designing and testing their racks to help ensure that you're not going to have any issues with them what so ever.Keeping this one pretty basic keeps it at a cost-effective price, so it's going to give you an excellent way to transport four bikes, get it to your favorite spot, whether it's going to be friends heading out to the park, you and the family heading out to the park, maybe going out camping. It's going to keep us from having to put them up on our roof or try to pile them in the back of the van, or pile them in the back of the truck.Now, if you're new to bike racks, this is what's considered a hanging style bike rack. So you can see, we've got out bike that's hanging down from our dual cradle arms here. We also offer platform style racks.Now, to get a four bike platform style rack, it's usually much more expensive and it's generally going to be a lot heavier so those are two things to keep in mind. But platform style racks are what we recommend for use with carbon bikes.

The frames as they head down the road can kind of be stressed and prematurely fatigued so, we recommend platform style racks for that. Or, if you don't want your bikes to make contact. If you have nicer bikes and you're worried about maybe the pedal on one hitting the frame on the other or something like that, a platform is generally a better option to go with.Outside of that, if you just have entry level bikes and that's what this rack is mainly suited for; families or people just getting into biking, just getting out there and getting out on the trail. Not really concerned if their bike gets a couple scratches on it here or there from making contact.Something else I appreciate about this rack and a lot of our customers do too, it's going to be it's ability to tilt out and away from your vehicle when you don't have your bikes loaded up. Just going to have a pin and clip down here in the bottom, pull that out, allow the rack to rest out and away, and at that point you're going to have full access.

You'll be able to get anything in or out of here that you might need, whether it's going to be for your ride, snacks, anything like that.Then once your door gets down and out of the way, we're just going to lift back up on mast. We can replace that pin and clip. I like that the pin and clip is attached, that way we won't drop it and not be able to find it. Then just bring that around, clip it back in.Now to hold our bikes in place, we've got three cradles. You can see one here and here.

This is going to be for our top tube. That's what really keeps our bike held in place. You'll notice, if we look here, you can see the groves that are designed into the cradles. That allows our cables someplace to go. You can see we don't have to worry about them getting pinched. We're not going to have to worry about any damage being done and then we've got our nice, heavy-duty rubber strap. That's going to come down and over the tube of our bike. We just stretch that down to secure it.Overall, really easy and straight forward. You can see we also have an anti-sway cradle. This helps to keep our bikes from moving forward and back too much. They can sometimes make contact which, with each other like we've talked about or even go up and make contact with that center mast. So, it's a really good way to keep that from happening. Keep our bikes from moving around.Now the Hitching Post Pro is also designed to handle most bikes except for maybe electric bikes. We have a capacity of 35 pounds. Most bikes are going to fall underneath that range so you really shouldn't have any issues getting your bikes loaded up. That's going to be 35 pounds per cradle, so you should have plenty of room there and get the whole family down the road.The Hitching Post Pro's a bike rack that we've had here at etrailer for an extremely long time and we really like it. If you look through the customer reviews, it's the same thing being said there. They think it's a great bike rack, does the job really well, holds up really well, been using it for years without any issues, which are all great things. We also get a lot of questions about the rack. W