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What you see right here is the Yakima HighSpeed roof mounted fork mount bike rack. This is gonna be a really good bike rack to put up on your roof to free up that hitch first, most stuff. There are gonna be two HighSpeed roof rack kits on our website. The one we're looking at today gives us two options for mounting. Right now we're utilizing the T-track on our aftermarket bars on our roof to get it secured down but it's not going to make it any more low profile than the straps that come on it normally. These are very low profile but the one reason why the T-slots are very nice is, notice how it's mounted right above our tower.
So we can fully utilize our roof rack system with the T-slots so you get a little bit of extra room. There are a couple benefits to a fork mounted bike rack. One, it's gonna be a little bit more aerodynamic just because we don't have a wheel in the front. So the bike's gonna be tilting down a little bit. So it'll be a little bit more aerodynamic.
It's also gonna be a little bit easier to get it up and on the roof. So if you're a little bit shorter, you have a taller car or mixture of both. This is gonna be the easier way to get it up on there. One thing about this is any fork mounted bike rack is gonna be the most rigid when it comes to how your bike mounts. As you can see, it's nice and secure.
So if you're going on long trips and you're always wondering how your bike's doing up there, this in my opinion is gonna be the most rigid and secure way to mount your bike on your roof. Depending on what kind of bike you have is gonna determine if you can use the HighSpeed with your bike. So what you need to do is first check out your axle size. We have those listed below, down in the specs. Make sure that they match up with one that's compatible with the HighSpeed.
Also the wheel base max is gonna be 48 inches which we are pretty much good. Sitting in about 47 inches. And we do wanna make sure we don't overload it with weight which the capacity of this rack is 40 pounds. So once we take our wheel off, you can go ahead and take the skewer. I like putting it on first. It makes it a lot easier. All the road bikes that we tested on the HighSpeed worked really well. I think that's what the HighSpeed is mainly for. But for a mountain bike like this, there are a couple things I want you to look at. One with the bigger wheels, it typically is a little harder. Mountain bikes are usually a little heavier than some road bikes. This one works, but there is something I want you to measure on your bike. It mainly just comes down to the caliper. So if we we're to look at it, you see how there's an indention on this side of the rack. That's to make room for that caliper. But we do want to make sure that if your rotors get really big, so I'm gonna measure from the center of the skewer. So on your bike you just measure from the center of the hole on your forks to where the indention stops is gonna be about five inches. So you just measure from the center to the back of your caliper. And if it's under five inches, you are good. And then notice how I have the whole entire skewer shoved to this side to make room because some of them get a little bit thicker. So now I want you to measure from the inside of your fork and then from the inside of the fork here to the end of the indention on this side, it's about an inch and a half. So you'll just measure from the inside of your fork to the edge of your caliper. And if it's less than an inch and a half, you're good. If your front fork looks like this, meaning we have a nut on both sides. It is gonna be kind of a pain to have to rip out two different tools to get that undone. So I highly suggest either converting it over to something like this, a little quick disconnect. That's gonna be the easiest way to do it. I just think having an extra set of tools just to take off your bike off your wheels so you can put it off on your roof, I just think that's not the best way. But if you don't wanna convert yours over, you can't, you could definitely grab another bike rack that doesn't utilize the forks on your bike. If those limiting factors are something you're running into, I do suggest looking at the Yakima HighRoad. The HighRoad will not make you remove that front wheel and you won't have to run into all the other things we we're talking about before. It mounts the same and has relatively the same footprint. A lot of you we're saying that you like the HighRoad just because you don't have to take the extra time to remov
8 июл 2022
