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If you don't have a hitch, you don't want a hitch or you're just using the hitch for something else the Thule FastRide is a great way to get a bike mounted up on top of your roof rack. If you don't got a roof rack, we have those as well. This is gonna be a channel-mount or a wraparound-mount and this is gonna be good for your thru-axle bikes or also your fork-mounted bikes. So, in this video we're gonna go over some specs show you how to install it and see how it performs on the road. When you're setting up your crossbar spread we wanna make sure it's not gonna be any less than 18 inches from the center of your crossbar to the center of the other crossbar and we don't want it to be any more than 36 inches. So, whenever you're setting that up it's usually gonna be about in the same bounds as your other accessories.

So just make sure you do that so it is gonna be compatible. We are gonna be able to fit tire width up to three inches so this isn't gonna be for your fat tire bikes and it is relatively lighter weight since it's on the roof. That's typical with most roof bike racks. So, we're gonna have a capacity of about 37 1/2 pounds. And with this little sliding cradle right here we're gonna be able to get the kiddos bikes here but then wheelbase is all the way up to 48 inches.

As far as overall dimensions go we're gonna have an overall length of about 54 inches. It's only gonna take up at its widest point about 8 3/4 inches. And, it's only gonna sit up about 3 1/4 inches. So, if you don't really wanna take this thing off and put it back on all the time, you can keep it up on here it's not gonna add a whole lot of height. And the nice thing about the width we have plenty of crossbar space to put whatever other accessories like a wheel holder up on top of our roof.

If you do plan on keeping it on your roof you don't have to worry about stuff fading away or starting to rust away over time. We are gonna have an aluminum construction with a nice powder-coated finish so it is gonna resist against rust and corrosion. And we do have a higher-end plastic so it isn't gonna fade in the sun. So, if you wanna keep it up here, you're good to go. I have it on the passenger's side just so if we are pulled over on the side of the road for whatever reason, we're not gonna be in traffic.

But if you do wanna put it on the driver's side if you're having two of them maybe, what you wanna do there's gonna be four little bolts on the bottom of this little housing. You're gonna take those out and then you can flip this around so it's gonna be on the other end. We're just doing it on the passenger side so we didn't have to flip it around but you can, if you need it to be on the driver's side. One thing we wanna make sure is, on your bike we do wanna make sure that the fork dropout which is this little gap right here it's gonna be at least 21 millimeters. And that's what this is going to require. So, anything up from that will work too. So, now that that's done, take your wheel off if you haven't already. And then you can go ahead and take your bike and put it up on the rack lay it into place just like that. And then we can go ahead and start tightening this righty tighty. And once it's nice and snug, not really going anywhere we can go ahead and secure the back. Let's adjust this. And just like any other bike rack just goes across your wheel and make sure that this is over our wheel to protect it. And then we can cinch it down. We can do a couple of different things with this. You can just let it hang or you can go underneath and use that same little slot we use to get it out of the way, to store it up to keep it from flapping around. We are gonna have a cable lock on the bike rack which is awesome. So, it just slides out just like that. And what I typically do is you'll take it, kinda like this and wrap it around the frame somehow and then it'll come back and connect right here. But you are gonna need to grab a locking core. So, if you are grabbing it for your roof rack and the bike rack with the cable then you should grab more than two. But if you're just looking to lock down your bike and the rack, you can just grab two of them and that'll go right here and that'll allow it to lock down into place just so it'll be a nice theft deterrent to those that have little sticky fingers. Obviously, if you're using a fork-mounted or a thru-axle-mounted bike rack you're gonna have to do something with your wheel. So, you can either throw it in the back of your car or if you don't have room or don't wann