Topline Expandable Truck Bed Bike Rack Demo - Etrailer

This is a two bike truck bed carrier from Topline. This lightweight compact is perfect for the on the go biker, with easy installation and removal it keep your bikes secure from bouncing around in the bed of your truck. This bike also comes with a locking key to keep honest people honest and is easily converted to carry more bikes. This is by using the add-a-bike system that is sold separately. Starting from top to bottom, well cover some of the parts we have here. On top here is the arm that reaches out and holds your bike, as you can see on the left hand side here there is a clamp, that is what gets clamped to the bed of your truck. Going to the second part, this is the bar that goes between your first bike and second bike. Together they will add stability and not go anywhere. On the bottom on the left hand side is a cable, again that is a security system to keep the bikes from going anywhere. To the right you will see a black plug, which is for trucks with over the rail bed liners. You do have to drill out a hole for your bed liner, so you can attach the clamp to it. Once you take of the rack you put the plug in and you do not have to worry about dirt or dust getting in there. Now well show you a typical installation. Before we start our install, what were going to do is mount one of the clamps to the bike first and stick the bike in the bed the way we want it. Now well mark the bed with a piece of tape. Now well take everything apart and install our clamp. Now that we have our place marked, we can install our clamp. Its pretty simple, this edge here will go behind the rail and this will clamp on top. Once we have this in place well use our eye bolt to tighten it down. Once you have it tightened the way you want it, then this jam nut has to be tightened down so it wont back off when your down the road. The next step is to loosen the clamp here the top half so you can rotate your arm. Now were going to install our first bike. Well give it a trial run here, make sure your bike is vertical. Just clamp it into place, our bike is now clamped down to our truck bed and will not go anywhere. Before we install our second bike we need to make sure we add our front tire tie strap. This will connect the front wheel to the frame so it does not move around during transport. Well install our next bike, you may want to take a couple of tries to make sure it fits right.