Yakima KingJoe 2Bike Trunk Mount Rack
Brand:Yakima Average Rating 0 reviews The Yakima® King Joe 2-bike trunk rack has thick padded and buckled feet to protect your car's paint job. The ...
The Yakima® King Joe 2-bike trunk rack has thick padded and buckled feet to protect your car’s paint job. The integrated StableCradles hold bikes with resolute determination in place, and the Quick Trigger Hub System makes installation a snap. more info
Most helpful customer reviews 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. 1. Be sure to check on and tighten the rack after about a half hour on the road because the weight of the bikes will force the rack down and loosen the lower and side straps. 2. The handy rubber loops for storing the extra lengths of straps are a great idea but they are too thin to be useful for long. Mine broke after taking the bikes on and off about six times. I ended up folding up the extra lengths of strap and storing them in the loops near the buckles. 3. The cradles for holding the bikes slide on the load arms. While this is nice for adjusting the bikes, the problem is that they don’t stay put when your one the road. I had to wind rubber bands in front of the cradles to keep them from sliding toward the car. 4. I hate the rubber bike straps for securing the bikes. They take a lot of strength to get the bike strapped in securely. Also, be SURE to wrap the rubber straps UNDER any brake wires etc, because they will destroy the paint on your bike if you don’t. 5. The hubs for adjusting the load arms work very well, and I like that the load arms can be put out of the way when there are no bikes on the rack. This allows me to raise the hatch door when the bikes are off and we have kayaks on the car, though the hatch won’t go up all the way. I can raise the hatch all the way up when the kayaks are not on, and if I had used a rack that rests on the bumper I could not have raised the rear hatch at all. Same with the trunk on my Corolla. This is one of the main reasons I bought this rack. 6. The instructions show the side straps installed horizontally across the back of the car. This won’t work with the 2000 Outback because the tail lights are in the way, and it doesn’t work to put the side hooks above the tail lights because they will work themselves loose and actually come off when you open the hatch after the bikes have been removed. Put the side hooks on the lower corners of the hatch door, and put two 1″ wide strips of old bike tire under the hook to protect the door and to keep the hooks from moving around. This works very, very well. 7. Use strips of old bike tire under all hooks or they will scratch the car. This isn’t a Yakima problem, it’s a problem with every bike rack I have used. 8. Cut a piece of the rubber stuff you put under area rugs to keep them from slipping and put it under your license plate and secure it with the license plate screws. Don’t use a license plate frame. This will keep the plate from scratching the car and causing rust to form under the plate later on. 9. The outside bike will move around when you travel, so you are going to have to secure it either to the inside bike or through the inside bike to the rack itself. The stabilizer cradle just isn’t substantial enough to keep the bike from rocking. 10. If there had been a SARIS BONES rack that had a base that rested against the trunk or hatch instead of on the bumper, I would have bought that instead. But both of my cars (2000 Outback and 2010 Corolla) have soft bumpers requiring the Yakima type of rack, in spite of what the Saris fit guide says. 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. The only con for this rack is that there is really no way to lock it to your car. If someone unhooks the straps they can take your rack and bike (with the bike locked to the rack). 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. |
Great rack with some issues
Nice rack
