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Click for more info and reviews of this RockyMounts Roof Bike Racks: https://www.etrailer.com/Roof-Bike-Ra... Check out some similar Roof Bike Racks options: https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Roof... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-review-ro... Hello, neighbor. This is Curt with etrailer and today, we're gonna take a look at the RockyMounts MachTen bike carrier for your roof rack. Roof rack bike carrier can come in really handy if you don't have a hitch available or if your hitch is being used for something else all the time. Maybe it's just busy pulling trailers or having a rooftop cargo box or basket back there. And really your roof rack is gonna be the best place for you to transport your bike. Now the MachTen is gonna allow you to carry a single bike up to 45 pounds. It can accommodate bikes with up to a 29 inch wheel diameter down to a 20 inch wheel diameter. It can also accommodate up to a 55 inch wheel base and tires up to three inches wide. It's wheel-mounted. These brackets are gonna ratchet together and kind of sandwich the bike upright so that it can't move forward and it's not gonna be moving from side to side. So it's a really, really sturdy platform. It's pretty easy to use. And this type of system is making it a little bit easier if you're out on your own getting your bike up onto the rooftop. The MachTen is gonna be constructed with a powder-coated aluminum, which is gonna make it extremely corrosion-resistant, but also keep it light weighted only about 20 pounds. So keep that number in mind, plus the weight of your bike whenever you're calculating how much rooftop weight capacity you have and just making sure you're staying under that threshold. It's also gonna be pretty narrow, which most rooftop bike carriers are. So if you've got it mounted more to the side of the vehicle, which is what I would recommend for ease of loading and unloading, it should leave you plenty of space on the other side of your bars to mount another accessory if need be, whether it be a kayak carrier or a rooftop cargo box or something of that nature. It's also come gonna come with the added bonus of coming with its own chain lock. And while it's not recommended to drive around with it, it's gonna be a great way to secure your bike to the rack on your roof, you know, without having to worry about someone coming along to steal it. It's very heavy and very thick. You do get this, you know, a key to go with it and it locks in place right here. Also comes with a nice dust cover for when you are traveling just to keep any debris and things out of there for you. It can accommodate, as I mentioned before, between 20 and 29 inch wheel diameters. And the way that you could change your bracket through that is they do provide you with an Allen tool, and you'll be able to use that to move this bar up and down accordingly depending on the diameter of your wheel. This is also dimension a clamp mount, and these clamps are gonna fit most standard crossbars that are out there. In fact, you are gonna get two different bolt lengths with it in case your application has a thicker crossbar. So you shouldn't really have any problem fitting this onto just about any roof rack that's out there on the market. And while we're talking about it, if you decide this is the rack that you want to go with and you get it and you use it a few times, please share with us what you think about it in the comments below. We'd love to share your experience with our other neighbors so they can make the best decision for themselves. Now we had talked about this being a roof mount and getting it installed with the clamps and everything else, so just stick around. We're gonna show you right now exactly how we got our MachTen mounted on our crossbars and our bike loaded up. To start our installation, it's always a good idea to kinda lay everything out and make sure we've got all of our parts. So we've got our bike tray itself right here. You're going to get a chain lock along with a key for that lock here. We're gonna have four sets of brackets to go around our crossbars. We are gonna have a few different bolts here. Now we've got M6 bolts here in 50 millimeter and an M6 bolt here in 65 millimeter, along with these M6 washers. Now these bolts are gonna serve the same purpose essentially. It really has to do with getting these brackets put together that go around your crossbars. So if you want to kind of wrap these around your crossbars and drop the bolts through just to test which one you may need, go ahead and do that. But these are generally made for longer thicker crossbars. The ones that we're using today, we're gonna stick with o