Today on our 2015 volkswagen passat we are test fitting the rhino-rack road warrior rooftop bike rack a bike carrier excuse me the part number for that is rbc035 our bike on the rack we’re going to show you how we secure the bike down and then also how we secure the carrier itself to the crossbars so if you take a look at the back we have one single strap holding that wheel down that’s just going to secure that they’re in place and then we this is a fork-mounted we have a skewer here holding our Forks in place or just pull up on the black handle turn to the left loosen and turn to the right to tighten and that just snaps right back into place so to take our bike off will first start by taking the strap here all just slides right through when you push the black lever a good ideas to always put it between your spokes so it doesn’t damage your bike excuse me and we’ll loosen the skewer a little bit and that will allow us to take our bike straight off now a great habit to get into is to always reconnect your strap so they don’t get any dirt and debris in the grooves there and it makes it easier to strap down your bike later we’ll just push the skewer off to the side now if we take a look up front here we do have a locking pad I’m going to step up in here now this is connected into the track here it’s got a rectangular block there excuse me and some screws holding that in and to loosen it you just turn it one way and tighten it you turn the other you can just take your end cap off here of the crossbars and it’ll slide right out or slide right in so we’ll go ahead and put everything back into place and if we take a look at the back you can see we do have a metal plate and two screws holding in our back we’ve got two thumb screws here to connect that you’re just going to tighten down on these screws and that will secure that metal plate around the crossbar so you know that your bike carrier is secured that’s going to complete our look at the rhino-rack road warrior rooftop bike carrier and how it works on our 2015 volkswagen passat here on our test course we’ll start by going through the slalom this is going to show us the side to side action which simulates turning corners or evasive maneuvers once we get to the alternating speed bumps we’ll see the twisting action this will simulate hitting a curb or pothole or driving over uneven pavement once we get to the full speed bumps we’ll see the up and down action this will be just like
driving in and out of a parking lot garage or driveway you
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