Product Description

Premium trunk mounted 2-bike carrier

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1786 in Sports & Outdoors
• Size: NA
• Color: Black/Silver
• Brand: Allen Bike Racks
• Model: 102S
• Released on: 2007-03-01
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 15.00" w x 23.00" l, 8.00 pounds

Features

• Extra-long carry arms easily accommodate up to 2 bicycles
• Snaps into place right out of the box, and can be folded away with one hand
• Internal clearance on the rack to fit most vehicles with rear-mounted deck spoilers
• Patented tie-down system individually secures and protects bicycles
• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

135 of 136 people found the following review helpful.
Oh so pleased...
By Stephanie M. Todd
After doing extensive price comparison and research, my husband and I settled on this rack for towing around our two mountain bikes. I tore open the box and within minutes before even reading instructions I was twisting and turning and figuring it out - if you take a long hard look at it, I think it's quite intuitive. With a quick look at the instructions to make sure I wasn't going to break it, I was ready to go try it out on my car - 2005 Ford Escape and my husband's car - 2005 Ford Focus ZX4 with a factory installed spoiler. I read on another website that this bike rack was compatable with cars with spoilers (stated: compatable with most factory installed spoilers). From tearing open the box to getting it set on a car took me less than ten minutes. No lie! The padding on this is nice where it contacts the car, the craddles for the bikes are nice and grippy and sturdy, the fold-flat design is wonderful and very easy to use, the set up is a breeze for one person a nd take-down is just as easy, loading the bikes was easy, too. It looks really nice, both bikes made it in and out of the rack after a short car ride with no damage, bumps, bruises, loss, etc.

**Oh, P.S. if you are reading this and have a ladies or bent-frame bike make sure you pick up or have an adapter bar (Allen also makes one of these which I also got and am very pleased with as it's easy to use and gentle on my bike) so that your bike will be able to be safely mounted on the rack correctly.

109 of 112 people found the following review helpful.
Works well so far...
By John Lee
Great so far, I have had it for a few months and use it at least once a week. But I have only taken short trips, nothing over 30 miles or an hour drive time.

Plus:

No assembly required.

Easy to set up. After the initial setup and finding the optimal position for the bikes it now only takes me about 5 minutes to put the rack on the trunk and place the bikes on the rack. Takes even less time to take off rack and folds flat so can be stored in trunk, while not in use.

Compact but very sturdy, and good foam padding protects trunks well enough. No damage so far.

The straps that hold the bikes in place can be rotated to accommodate different bikes. Very versatile. The rack has held 2 medium sized full suspension bikes with no problems at all.

Best price I could find for a new 2-bike trunk rack that has individual straps for bikes.

Minus:

Only has four straps that attaches to trunks vs other racks that have six straps. (But it seems that the four straps work well enough. I am assuming that more straps would make it more sturdy and stable)

Overall:

Great product for a great price, it does what it is meant to do, and I would definitely recommend it to a friend.

Tips:

Before putting the rack on your trunk, make sure the area on the trunk that the rack will be resting on is clean of dirt and other particles to prevent scratches due to friction.

After setting up the rack on your trunk rubberband the excess strap. This will keep it from flying around and will make it easier to setup and take off the rack.

Put a couple of old socks over the pedal of the first bike to keep the pedal from scratching your car's finish.

102 of 115 people found the following review helpful.
Only fits larger bikes ...
By M. H. Chaudhry
Ordered the rack, got it, sturdy, took less than 10 minutes to install.
However, the width of the bars is not adjustable, so the rack is only good for larger bikes (above 17.5 inch). I have a Trek 7.3FX bike which fits on the rack, but my wife has a Trek 7100 which would not fit, no matter what. Also, the website doesn't mention the cars it will or will not fit, this information is available once you get the rack. There is a fit guide on the back of the box. So it fit my wife's Camry, but wouldn't fit my Celica. Would be nice to have this information BEFORE one orders. Had to return mine. 5 stars for Amazon though, they gave me a full refund.