etrailer | Thule Gateway Pro 3 Bike Rack Feature Review

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Adam: "What is going on, everybody Adam here with e-trailer. Today, we are going to be going over a solution if you do not have a hitch or a bike rack on your roof, to be able to get your bikes to and from the destination.Luckily, this one is extremely compact, fits in your trunk, so it's easy to store, and this is going to be the Thule Gateway 3.First thing we want to do to get it expanded, is we are going to hold these levers on each side, we are going to push those in, and it's going to make this arm come up like this. I found the right setting, and we want to put it on our trunk just like this, and if you look closely, you can see we do have some numbers here. I'm going to use the seven. I found that to be the best fit for our inaudible 00:00:49 here.Just a quick tip for you, if you fancy your paint job, I highly recommend just wiping it down just so a lot of that dirt and stuff isn't being pushed down onto your paint to make marks. So we did that, and another thing we need to do is, you notice this pad here, it's nice and wavy on the round end, we want that to be down.

So rotate that around on both sides, get it into place.Then, we can go ahead and start grabbing our straps here, and hooking them on, over top of this bar, down like that, make sure it's nice and straight. Hook it in, and then we do want to give it a nice little tug just to make it nice and firm, just so it'll sit there on its own, and on the sides, we're going to have two other straps. One's going to be a black hook, the other one is going to be a gray hook, and notice how some of them, one is going to go down, and the other one is going to go out. So, the one that goes down, put it down, and the one that goes out, put it out. Pretty simple, straight forward, and again, we want to go ahead and tighten this up, just to make it nice and snug.

We will tug on these a little bit more, once we get everything set into place. I'm going to go ahead and do the same exact thing on the other side.inaudible 00:00:05 Now that everything is nice and secured into place, what is nice about this bike rack is, we have, little straps that are going to allow us to take all that excess, tie it up nice and neatly so it's not flapping in the wind.Next thing we want to do is these levers here. This is just going to allow us to put these up so we can use them. So, all you got to do is just flip that open and to get it nice and loose, you want to twist it left a little bit, lefty Lucy, righty tighty, and then, this is going to pop out, and we want to make sure it's going to be at least at an incline. If it's straight, that's fine, but we do not want them hanging down like this.So, I like to get it a little bit of an incline like this, and as you can see, I saw a little bit of wiggle, so what you want to do is start twisting this to the right until you get it to where it's nice and tight.

That's pretty good, so I do the same thing to the other side, and the initial setup of this is going to be the longest, just because you're going to get an idea of what numbers to put each of the settings on, but once you get that all figured out for the first time, it should be the same for the rest of the times you set this up.Now it's time for some bikes. We want to make sure that our bikes aren't going to be any heavier than 35 pounds, and also another thing to think about, is how far away these bikes are spaced apart. So, we're going to have about seven inches from each bike, and the spread between these two is going to be about 12 inches. So, for your kids' bikes, make sure we're going to have a big enough gap, right here, to be able to get these on here. If not, you can go ahead and grab a bike adapter bar, and that'll adapt it to make it fit this rack.Now let's take a look at the cradles.

They are going to take care of your bikes, you don't have to worry about them scratching anything, and they are going to have little grooves right here, and that's going to be for our bike cables so they're not smashing up against our frame. We do have an anti-sway cradle on the bottom here, and that's going to be covered as well with some rubber, so that's not going to scratch anything either, and so are the straps. They are thinking of your bikes, when they design this, and I love that