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Bike Hitch Rack Merchandise Reviews

By: Don Harrisson

##LINKXL## If you are searching the internet for a bike rack you can quickly get overwhelmed with the many various manufacturers, brands, and styles available. Here is some advice from customers on a few of the racks carried at Ultimate Bike Hitch. I've also worked with these bike hitch and trunk racks personally so I will incorporate my opinions as well.
Hollywood Racks are known to be resilient, sturdy racks that won?t hit you hard in the wallet. The Hollywood Traveler series is a bike hitch mount rack available in 3,4,or 5 bike capacity. This is a very reasonably priced choice and will work well if you are carrying your average mountain bikes and wandering on paved roads. If you plan on using your bike hitch rack often and sometimes travel on rough, bouncy roads; you need to upgrade to the Hollywood Road Runner series of bike hitch. The Road Runner is one of the most enduring bike hitch racks you can get and it comes with a lower anti-sway stabilizer bar to really retain your bikes tight when you are roving off road.
Softride makes some of the easiest to handle bike hitch racks on the market. These high-end racks are aesthetically designed to look tremendous on any vehicle from a pickup to a luxury suv. Softride bike hitch racks feature a patented ?parallelogram design? which keeps the bike rack level with the ground when tilting to load and unpack. This highlight makes Softride by far the easiest bike hitch to load, unload, and maneuver your bikes. If you want a bike hitch rack that your wife, mom, or kids will have no problem using, than check out Softride. The Dura model is a excellent 4 bike capacity product, and the Elite model is wrapped in an aluminum coating for additional weather resistance.
Raxter Racks make a truly distinctive and probably the most versatile bike hitch rack. Raxter is unique from all the others because it holds the wheels of the bike rather than clamping around the frame. This offers some advantages over the others. If you have a really expensive titanium frame bike or a thin-walled frame bike, you might not want to use a bike hitch rack that clamps around the frame which could trigger your brake wires to chafe against the frame. The Raxter Rack eliminates this matter as well as the irritating bike sway and wheel spinning that you can sometimes get from frame holding bike hitch racks. The other feature I like with Raxter Racks is it is much easier to combine styles of bikes on the rack in case you are traveling with road bikes and mountain bikes and kids bikes. The Raxter Rack easily adjusts for each size and variety of bike.
There are a few other brands worth checking out. Thule and Yakima bike hitch racks are very reliable and get great reviews, although they seem to be a little costly. Saris makes an first-rate bike hitch rack, but the receiver is very long and adds a lot of length to the car.
So, here is my ultimate advice for your bike hitch rack. If you just travel locally with a few mountain bikes and don?t need to take your automobile off road, go with the Hollywood Traveler series. If you go on long trips, or go off road with your vehicle to get to trails; get the Hollywood Road Runner bike hitch rack. If you like a rack that compliments your luxury vehicle, or want an painless to load/unload bike hitch rack for the whole family get the Spftride Dura or Elite. If you travel with a combination of road bikes, mountain bikes, and/or kids bikes; go with a Raxter Rack or Softride Versa 2. ##/LINKXL##

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Don O'Dell is a contributor to Ultimate Bike Hitch . UBH is an online store with a selection of bike hitch racks, trunk racks, and accessories to transport your bikes with your vehicle.

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