Quikr Tip - Loading and Unloading a Bike
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this Quikr Tip, Bryan details how to load your bike on your Mach2 main rack. He also covers the unloading process. For more information on the Mach2, take a look at our webpage: (add in). For fastest response to any questions, please send an email to Sales@QuikrStuff.com
Love my Quikr Rack. suggestion for video - Loading fat tire bike with fenders. thanks!
Good idea! We will have to make that happen!
I did this by putting the front wheel in first, then lifting the back, on my ebike which was heavy. The back arm cam is lowered a bit since it will not go all the way up with the fender. Now, I have a 105lb ebike that I use a ramp I had from my 1Up rack. Got the QuikR stuff when I got a bike too heavy for the 1Up. Very glad I did since it is so much more sturdy and easy to use, especially when adjusting for different size tires or bikes with fenders, or adding the additional rack when I have two bikes. BTW, as I said, the 1Up ramp works fine with QuikRstuff if you invert the ramp hangers.
Quikr Rack, my suggestion for lights is a light bar mounted to the ramp. Mount using 3M H.D. Tape for the L.E.D. Light bar with a 4 way connector that will plug into the vehicle side.
I use the wheel locks from Quikr. I suggest you first adjust the tires on the rack so the spokes are not in the pathway of the locks before the final push. The tires do not move after that final push.
Good tip!
Love my rack and love your tips! Keep them coming.
Can't wait to get our rack! We have a lot of trails that we want to go to
Very useful video. I just love my rack for transporting our eMTB. Perfect rack!
Glad you like it!
Loading an old fashioned, acoustic bike is well and good, but many of us today are buying this rack for modern, but heavy, e-bikes. I think that's where today's market interests lie.
I have an Radrover ebike with rear rack+bag. I hold the rear brake and pop a wheelie and load the front fat tire and then lift the rear into the rack. The ebike is too heavy in the rear to dead-lift into the rack. There is also a ramp available from Quikrack and it attaches to the bike rail like an extra extended rack when not needed.
Mr. Gold had a good suggestion in the comment below (we are actually going to make a video on loading an e-bike without a ramp) but we prefer using our ramp accessory for loading e-bikes. We have another video up on that. Thanks!
@@mrgold3591 When we had an Easyfold, we tried the ramp, but it was too short and steep - even perched on a curb with the vehicle parked just right. So we too used the brake method you describe. Luckily our e-bikes are 10 lbs lighter than a Radrover, so with the battery removed it was not too bad. It was still too much for my wife to do alone, however. We ordered the ramp for our Quikrstuff rack and hope it is long enough to be useful.
I wish the Quikrack came with an option for 4 way lights and license plate light. I sometime ride my fat tire ebike early morning or late at night (trails to myself). Having both Fat tire ebikes with triangle bags covering the battery does block the entire rear of my SUV. I have a 7-flat harness and 4-way adaptor ready to go!
It is on our roadmap! Lot to do to make it a reality, but we are working towards it.
I use a set of Curt auxiliary lights to provide brake lights and turn signals when a bike is loaded. They connect to a 4-way flat and I use 3M Dual Lock (sold in many stores as Scotch Extreme Fasteners) to hold the lights securely in place. It takes a minute or two to rearrange the lights when I add or remove a tray, but works pretty well. I haven't come up with a good license plate lighting solution yet.
Honest question: is that really how hard you're pushing down the arms to hold the bike in place? I run my 2.6" tires around 20-ish psi and I press hard enough to get SIGNIFICANT deformation of the tire. Then the release mechanism is much more difficult to operate than demonstrated in this video.
The harder you push, the more stability you get, so I'd rather push hard enough to press into the tire than not hard enough. If you push in on the spool to take some tension off when you are unloading, it makes it much easier to release the lever.
What is the weight capacity for two bikes with this carrier?
How do you put on a heavy Ebike on this rack?
The ramp is the way to go for that and then we also apply a LED light strip for our brake, turn and back up lights. Works great!
How does the rack work if one or both tires are flat?
Same way.
@@fourcubed47 I going to assume you mean fat and not flat. My fingers are bad spellers too. I have two electric bikes with 4" tires on both. No issue securing the bikes as shown in the video. However, I do use the ramp to get them off and on the rack because they are heavy bikes.