Surco DBR400 OSI Swing Away Hitch Mount Bike Rack, 2" Receiver, Up To 4 Bike Capacity Product Description:
- The rack swings completely out of the way for maximum rear access
- The top swings independently letting it sit parallel to the rear of the vehicle
- Top plate secures and locks bikes to rack
- Bikes are securely gripped in a non-scratch padded channel
- Durable black powder coat finish
Product Description
SWING AWAY 4 BIKE RACK
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
easy to improve swing away
By bike addict
I own three other bike racks so I have some experience with both good and bad ones. I just installed this rack on our truck and camper because a swing away is the only thing that will work for this application. The swing away part of this rack works quite well and is easy to use. Even the threaded bolt that holds the two arns together seems to be strong enough and well designed so that cross threading should not be a problem when locking the swing away arm in place for transporting. However, the top plate, which holds the bikes in place is very hard to use. It has three tie down bolts that each have to be tightened and loosened a little bit at a time, individually, because they bind up if any one bolt gets to far ahead of the other two. Also, if you were too strip these bolt threads out the bike rack would be completly useless. I also found that my four bike rack is probably only going to be able to carry two road bikes at a time unless I remove the handlebars on the middle bike and yes I did reverse the way the bikes face on the rack. Because of the way the top plate works it is not possible to adjust the bikes up or down very much when they are on the rack to make them fit better. Also if you have bikes that have different widths of top tubes it may be hard to fit them on this rack due to the way the top plate works. Without thinking about it very much at all I decided that a better way to have the top plate work would be to have a hinge on one end and a clasp on the outer end that would fit over an eye plate which would also make it very easy to lock down the top plate with a padlock which would be much more theft proof than the lock that is provided.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Very nice Swing away...
By Lee
Did great for our long distance drives. Up to 7 hour drive. Freeway and mountain driving. It held up great and the swing away is definitely a plus when you want to get in the back of the truck and the bikes are in the way. I was leary the first time I swung it with a load of 3 bikes, but nothing happened, swung right back and locked back into place. I wish they made one to hold five bikes. We replace the short T screws that came with the rack with 4inch bolts and washers to fit all our bikes. Then we bungee all the bike tires together to minimize the tire movement and we are set. Never had to tighten the load during our drives yet.
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