etrailer | Test Fit: Yakima OnRamp LX Bike Rack for 2 Electric Bikes on a 2024 Kia Carnival

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Hey, everyone. It's Evangeline here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the Yakima OnRamp LX Bike Rack and how it fits here on our 2024 Kia Carnival. This is actually gonna be my first look at this bike rack, so we get to take a look at it together right off the bat. I definitely see this as useful for if you need to carry extra heavy bikes here with your Carnival. This does include a ramp that's attached to the rack, hence the name "OnRamp." So for those heavier bikes, if you don't wanna be lifting them up and onto the rack, this is gonna work out for you. And this does have a maximum weight capacity of 80 pounds, which is awesome because electric brakes seems to be getting heavier and heavier.

It also has this stadium seating style tray. So even though the hitch on the Carnival is kind of on the low side, you do have a decent rise to the rack that will help prevent bottoming out on those steeper inclines. Now what I'm not as happy about though is that the tilt away function for this rack doesn't tilt away very far. It also requires two people in order to tilt away because the location of the knobs. So I am not gonna tilt this rack away, but I'm gonna show you how you would do it.

And if you're curious about the actual distance, check out the picture on the product page here. If you put your year, make, and model, you'll see it pop up. So there's gonna be two pins. One pin is holding on the right side, you can pull that one out. The other pin requires you to pinch and then pull this.

This is where the second person is needed. The second person will, the first person will pull this pin, and the second person will support the rack from the end and then drop it down to its tilt. It would be very tricky to operate that pin from this side where you can be able to tilt things away. And that's why Yakima recommends having two people do that. Also, if you have your bike loaded up and they're up to 80 pounds, that's a lot of weight to maneuver on your own.

So again, check out that picture on our page if you wanna see how far we were able to open the door before hitting the handlebars. It was about this high, just enough to grab some stuff real quick, but not enough for full clearance, so I wouldn't tilt it away on a Carnival anyways. Now back to the bike. We talked about a weight capacity of 80 pounds. This can work with bikes to different wheel bases, different tire sizes. There is an adjustable tray here. If you maneuver the knob underneath, you can move the tray back and forth for those different wheel bases. I would've benefited from moving our tray a little bit further out for the size of the bike, but since these trays are offset, having all that adjustability is awesome because then you can custom fit what works best for you and your specific bikes. And the way this holds onto the bikes is we have two wheel chalks and straps. So you press this lever, and then you lift that strap off. If you want to remove the bike, there's also a strap keeper here to the side, and that way when you get the ramp on, you don't have to run over your straps. These strap levers are actually locked in that, or fixed in that position, to help promote you having the best angle on your bike's tires. Now before I go and remove the frame mount, I'm gonna set up the ramp. The ramp is attached to the bike rack by this knob. So we're gonna remove that knob and then remove this ramp. The ramp then attaches to the end of the bike rack. I'll grab that later. So we're gonna clip this in. Find our preferred distance. And then clip it back in like that, and secure it with the knob. So you can either use the knob that came to secure the bike rack, of the ramp to the bike rack, or one of the knobs that was attached to the ramp. And now that the ramp is set up, we can then remove the bike. So same concept. There's a lever and a strap, although this time the lever is attached to our frame mount. This comes kind of close to our Kia Carnival. I have pretty long handlebars though, so I'm not as concerned for road bikes. But if you have longer bars, just be careful that they don't come up against your window as you ramp your bike up and off. For example, I need to maneuver my pedals around that master pad. There we go. And then now I can bring the whole bike down. It's