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Today we are going to show you part number 1370400 from Highland. This is their SportWing Four Bike Bike Rack. This bicycle rack can hold up to four bicycles and you can take the back part of the rack off and only have a two bike rack if needed. It has eight movable nesting cradles two per bike. This will fit only a two inch receiver hitch and it also has a long extension tube that keeps the bikes away from the back of the vehicle so you do not have to worry about them bouncing around back there. The arms that hold the bikes are actually made of a lightweight aluminum. So it saves weight whenever possible for the bicycle rack. Movement and noise is virtually eliminated by securing the bicycles by the wheels and using the pedal straps that are included with the bike rack. 00:38
The aluminum arms themselves are removable for storage. Go ahead and install it in our typical two inch receiver hitch and just line up the threaded hole with the hitch pin hole and we will install our anti- rattle bolt. Take your wrench and snug it down. As we stated before this bicycle rack can be converted for a two bike or a four bike use. Go ahead and just undo this handle bolt right here, just back it off some. Undo these clips right here for your safety cables and then you take the whole assembly out. You can have as much space or as little space between your bikes as needed also. And that is why the safety cables are there so when you have got everything together we can pull it out and not worry about it coming completely out. 01:26
Next feature we are going to talk about is the aluminum arms themselves and the fact that they are removable. We simply take off this pin right here, unclip to pull it out and take the arm completely off. Now that allows you to store that bike rack without taking up a whole bunch of area. Moving up the arm we have this adjustable padding right here which you can slide up and down the arm so your bikes will not be bouncing off the aluminum of the bicycle rack itself. And going up the arm is two cradles per arm. To adjust them you just undo this knob right here and you can go up and down the arm as you need it. And the cradles themselves have this foam padding on there so you do not have to worry about it scratching up the finish on your bike and this is where the actual rim will fit on here and then your tire will be on top.02:05
And this strap will cover the entire wheel assembly and tire and just go around it and hold it in place. All right what you want to do first is before you put your bike on you want to measure how far apart the very top of your rims are so you know where to promptly space these arms. Once you have that done you can go ahead and set the bike up. Once you get the bike in place all you have got to do is pull the strap over and pull it over the little pin here. Do the same thing for the front and rear. It is kind of hard to see but right here you can see where the foam padding comes into play. Next you want to install your pedal strap. Bring your pedal as close to the middle as possible. It is a real easy strap set that has Velcro on both sides so it does not matter which way it will always stick to itself. So you just pull it over and you just pull it as tight as you can and just put them together. And there you have it for part number 1370400 from Highland the SportWing Four Bike Rack.
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