etrailer | Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Racks Review - 2009 Honda Civic

Click for more info and reviews of this Yakima Roof Bike Racks: Check out some similar Roof Bike Racks options: Search for other popular Honda Civic parts and accessories: Don’t forget to subscribe! Today on our 2009 Honda Civic, we&going to be test fitting the Yakima Front Loader. This is a wheel clamp style roof mounted bike rack, it&part number is Y02103. We&already got the Yakima Q Towers Roof Rack System installed on our Civic, so we&begin our test fit by placing our bike rack directly up onto our cross bars. Here at the front, we&have the two outside portions of our clamp on the front side and the one middle portion of our clamp will be on the back side of our crossbar. Bring that down and over. You can let the rack sit there in the middle and tighten it, it will automatically center, but to make it a little easier on us, I like to pull back on it, so that the front portion of the clamps are right up against that bar. We&then tighten down the black T handle, bringing the rear portion of our clamp up to meet our bar and then tighten that right down. With our front secure, we can now move here to the rear. The rear, we&loosen up the T bolt enough to where we can allow the T bolt to come out of the slot in the lower portion of our clamp. We&then slide that forward, around our crossbar, bring the lower portion back up and reinsert our T bolt, and then tighten that black T handle, T bolt back down to secure the rear of our rack. All right, with our front and rear...