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Today we are going to show you part number Y02071 from Yakima. This is their SideWinder
Bicycle Rack. It is specially designed for tandem bicycles. It mounts on a normal roof
rack - either round bars or square bars. It actually pivots out away from the vehicle,
making it a lot easier to load your tandem bicycle on it. At this point, we will go ahead
and mount this on a typical roof rack and give you a little bit better idea of how it
works. These adapter clips right here snap onto your
bars, and then the hardware for the rack itself bolts in through here and then clamps everything
into place. You have two that go onto the rear and then on the front, two of them will
actually use a U-bolt to clamp onto the front crossbar. Next we will go ahead and install
the strap on the bicycle. What the strap will do is keep the handlebars straight on the
bike as you load it up and go down the road. Now, how you attach these is going to be a
little bit different for each bicycle, since there are different types of handlebars out
there. Basically, on this one you do not want a position where it slides off the handle,
so we will loop it around and then back over itself. Then
take your third strap, and that will go back to your seat post. And then just tighten up the buckle. All right, and it
is ready to be loaded onto the bicycle rack.