etrailer | Yakima OnRamp E-Bike Platform Rack with Ramp Review

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What's up everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com Today we will be checking out the Yakima OnRamp, It's going to be a two bike platform style bike rack. It's gonna to hold the bikes here by the frame. And, it's gonna have a ramp that comes attached to it, so you can get those heavy E bikes, right up there with that ramp, and then it's on very easily. Lets check it out. So this is called the on ramp. I want to show you the ramp portion of the bike rack.

Just come down here. There's just a hand knob that you loosen, and you can remove the ramp. I like that it's stored on the bike rack itself, so you don't have to put it in the back of the car and find another storage place for it cause that'd be kind of a pain. It's all right there ready to go whenever you need it, and then you got the hooks on top, right here. and those are gonna hook in to the sides of the trays, you see up here on every side of these, there's one.

Just gonna put it up here with our E bike. So when it goes in there, you kind of tilt it up, you can kind of see that it has a groove, so the hooks go up like that. So we'll put that into place. And as you bring this down, the hooks go up and hook in there. So now I can't pull the ramp out.

I can hit it back and forth. It's not going to pop out of place. That's something that I'd be worried about on this bike rack, just you know, you've already got the E bike and you're rolling up there, you don't want anybody to accidentally kick it, or if you kick it, it's gonna fall out and you have all that weight all of a sudden, it's not gonna have that. I can kick this around, It stays in place, and again, it has the same slots on the other side. So maybe you're closer to a wall on this side, you can't use this side of it.

You can go and use the other side to get the bike on or off of the rack. So let's now use it. Come over here, undo the straps. On the wheels. And come up here, hit this one, as well. out of the way. Now last thing about this, turning, I can easily turn it out of the way. So now I don't have to dodge that when I'm taking this E bike on or off, and then just gonna walk her down the ramp. I suggest grabbing the handlebars, and one hand here behind the seat, to just roll it on down, and off the rack. Now I'm about to hit the wall right here. So not going to go completely off there, but I can easily just walk her right back up to if you are bringing back up. That one's gonna require a little bit of pushing here, behind the seat. That's not big deal. It's not that heavy, rolls right up. And it's far easier than lifting the whole E-bike up and setting it into place. You do have a few different options out there, when it comes to bike racks, with ramps included. The Thule EasyFold comes to mind, and that one also has a ramp that folds up and stores inside the bike rack. That's nice and all, but I didn't like that when we used it, I just didn't like that it folded, which kind of makes it not one solid piece. I like this one because it is one solid piece. You can see there's no twisting or movements so there's no folds or any areas we're removed. So it stays put when you're running that E bike up it to get it onto the rack. So I really like this one, over that one. Plus another thing is, this one is going to be fifty-two inches long. And the one that comes with the easy fold is only thirty-six inches. So they also make an extension, you have to buy after that, if you want it to be longer than that. But once you get the extension, it doesn't store on the bike rack anymore. So then you're gonna have to fold that up and put that in the back of the car. And that kind of just defeats the whole purpose of getting the bike rack with a ramp, if you have to get an extension anyway, I would rather go with this one where I know it's going to be long enough to use my E bike with. Take a closer look on how it holds the bikes in place. One part of that is going to be these cradles, that can spin 360 degrees with the strap around here and the padding's not going to hurt the frame at all, and then they got the hand knob here, so you can move it up and down the mast too. So there's a lot of adjustability. This is probably the better example here on the backside of the rack is the E bike. That's what you're looking at this for anyway, to carry your E bike, you know, the frames are all alternative style, so they're all a little bit different. So if you had a downward hook on like most platform style bike racks it wouldn't work properly. You wouldn't be able to get it