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Hey, everybody. Welcome to etrailer.com, I'm Bobby. And today we're taking a look at the Yakima HoldUp 2-Bike Platform Rack. So, you guys are looking for a way of getting two bikes wherever your destination might be taking you, this can be a half decent way of doing so. Now the holdup in my mind, it's starting to kinda get up there in the years of this design, so if you guys are kinda experiencing yourself, having newer bikes, especially bigger bikes, this might not be the bike for you, what it is going to be great for is something like our setup here. So, if you guys find yourself with your road bikes, maybe your women's bikes, kids' bikes, that sort of thing, even BMX bikes probably going to a-okay on here.
We do just have somewhat of a smaller frame. And as we start getting into our larger wheel bases and bigger tires, we're gonna start seeing some issues, but we're gonna slowly break that down here in the video. Let's go ahead and start taking a closer look. So we actually had the holdup down here for quite a while, and we've utilized it on a lot of different vehicles and we definitely have come over across a lot of pro's and con's. Now, personally, I'm not the biggest fan of the holdup.
I just think there's a lot of options out there that are gonna get you the same features that you're seeing without all the kinda con's, but, it's still a decent little bike rack. Again, I think it's excellent for something smaller set, like your carbon frame bikes, your road bikes, women's bikes, step-through bikes, that kind of thing it's probably gonna be great for. And the reason for that, we do have a very nice front tire hold here, making it suitable for your carbon frame bikes. However, it does start having some kinda interactions. We're really not that far set from our other bike, let alone our other handle.
So you guys can see here today, we might actually have a little bit of contact here, in our carbon frame. Now, it takes me quite a lot to move that, right But, that's another thing. These arms, they do a good job of not making sure our bike's living here, but they're a little wobbly, they're just not the most rigid structure that we could have. And with the natural road shake and play that you're going to have, your bikes are probably going to move a little bit. So that's a little concerning to me.
Now we do have a couple of little ways to kind of work around that. We do have an offset down here, so we could shift this all the way over to the right here, right, have that guy to the left, start getting a little bit more offset. But again, you're still really not getting that much, only about four inches of difference or so, which really isn't that much, especially if you've very similar bikes interacting with each other. Now, luckily for us here today, that's going to be my biggest issue is on that back half there. But again, if our handlebars we're a little more set we might have just a harder time actually getting our bikes to fit on here. Now again, you do have some nice little features here on the holdup. One of them is definitely going to be the integrated cable lock here, right on the end of your arm. Makes it really easy to go ahead, and take this through, run it through the frame of your bike, plug it right into itself. Now it is going to have a locking core on there as well. And of course you can always utilize Yakima same key system to go ahead and start getting this integrated with all your other assessors you might have. So this is your first Yakima purchase, that's great, 'cause then we can go ahead, start getting our other locking cores, key to like the ones that come included. Otherwise you will have to purchase separate locks to go ahead and start getting them all key to like on all your other different accessories. But I really do like that we have that option. I do find that it has a hard time sometimes going down, pick it right up, and then it will find itself home. Really, really easy, which is great. And I do like that we can go ahead and secure our bike to our carrier when we leave it unattended. Here on the very end of our platform, we do have Yakima's true and tested bottle opener, which is great to go ahead and enjoy your favorite beverage after a nice long ride. We also do have a way of actually tilting this away from our vehicle too while our bikes are on here. To do that, I'm just going to simply reach through. We have a little plastic clip that we need to pull on there, and then that pin goes out. What can be nice too, I li

[@EvilSammy]

Refreshingly honest review from a seller.

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Alternatives for mountain bikes ?

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Actually, for mountain bikes weighing up to 60 lbs each with tires up to 3 inches wide with wheelbases up to 48 inches long, the Yakima # Y02443 HoldUp would be an excellent choice. Does your bike fit into those parameters?
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