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Hi, everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the Thule Bed Rider Pro Truck Bed Bike Rack for full size trucks and seeing how it fits and installs on our 2016 GMC Sierra 2500. This is going to be a great way to carry up to two bikes with you mounted by the forks of your bike. You're gonna have to take the front tire off, but it'll work with a variety of quick release skewers and through axles. It comes with the different adapters to get them mounted up and it's going to hold them very secure.

So if you've got a truck bed, you maybe don't want to use a tailgate pad or a hitch mounted rack, this is gonna be another option you have. Let's check it out. Now personally I really like tailgate pads for trucks just because they're relatively inexpensive, easy to set up, and you can take 'em off just as easily when they're not in use. But if you're looking at an option like this then that might be because a tailgate pad isn't something you want. Whether it be that you've got something in the hitch that's maybe getting a little too close for comfort, maybe a trailer or a camper and you don't like the tires hanging out over the back of the tailgate here, or we just want free access to lower down our tailgate, or see out the backup camera without bikes getting in the way.

We can do that with a bike rack like this because it has all the bikes towards the front of the vehicle. We get full room to open and lower the tailgate and we don't have to take our bikes off to do so. Now we have two bikes in here right now to demonstrate, one, the full capacity of the bike rack. You can put a add-on fork block in the middle if you wanted to and had a third bike to carry. But also just to show you the different types of bikes you can support.

Our larger mountain bike here uses a through axle and you've got in one of the adapters to accommodate for that axle. And like I showed you before, it's a very solid fit. And then to my right, we've got our quick release which with that one just throw the lever and maybe loosen it up a little bit if it's a little tight. And you can just pop that up and out. So very quick and easy to get installed or uninstalled.

And then flip that lever to get it secured down again. Now these fork blocks attach to what is essentially just a crossbar. That makes it very solid and sturdy, clamps onto the bed rails, and the fork blocks can be slid back and forth anywhere along this crossbar. So we've got both of ours set to the outside edges of the truck bed right now. So we can easily load from the side depending on your height obviously, and what the truck is like. But you could also set these off to maybe the passenger side. So from the driver's seat, we can maybe see back through the rear view mirror a little bit easier by offsetting them. And then the other side of our bag can be dedicated towards some cargo like duffel bags for camping gear. Really the possibilities are endless. And with the 74 inch crossbar here for the full size truck beds, you've got room in the middle where again, you could add an add-on bike. This installs bike clamping onto the bed rails. And like I mentioned before, it's a very solid fit. It's gonna help you support a weight capacity of 40 pounds per bike. So even for our mountain bike on the other side we've got plenty of room to spare in terms of weight capacity. And then on the ends of the bars here we're going to have what are essentially towers like you'd see on a roof rack that are locking. So the locks do come with the kit, which is really great but when you pop those out that'll reveal the hardware that we use to tighten all of this down. So the crossbar in these tower pieces clamp to the bases and that tightening is controlled by that bolt there. So with it locked up no one can mess with it when you're not around. And then there's a separate bolt that's used to clamp the actual base here onto the bedrail. And those clamps are pretty universal for a variety of different full size trucks. Even if you have something like the utility track that you might see in some Toyota trucks like a Tundra, it'll work for that. And on the other side there is a locking mechanism to secure that bolt. So even though this one is accessible, the other one isn't. So you shouldn't be able to get the whole thing removed from the truck bed. An

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