( 11 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 2 2009
So, you're getting ready to go on an incredible cross-country trip but worry that at each fast food restaurant, gas station, or rest area stop someone will have to stay behind to watch over your bikes, especially if it's late at night or in a rough part of town. The cable is long enough to wrap around the top frames of two or more bicycles (depending on the carrier you choose). When not in use, the cable slides down into the hollowed-out tube of the Yakima carrier and stays in place until you need it again. As an additional plus, when I ordered this cable lock with the locking hitch pin as a set, I was able to use the same key to access both locks. The only way you could beat this system is with a cable cutter, but that is probably highly unlikely to happen. This item is a great anti-theft deterrent and I do recommend it.
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Posted: May 4 2009
This lock won't safe guard your wheels, but it will keep your bike attached to your rack and slides away almost completely unseen when not in use. We still use another chain to keep our wheels safe, but I still recommend this lock for extra piece of mind. Well worth the price!
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Posted: May 2 2009
So I bought this lock package to protect both my bikes and my new Yakima DoubleDown rack. Unfortunately there is a HUGE design flaw with how this system works on the DoubleDown racks. Yes, you can lock the bikes to the rack and also the rack to the hitch with this product. Unfortunately, Yakima engineers didn't seem to think about securing the pivot bolt in the middle where the rack folds down. It is just as easy (if not even easier) to simply unscrew that pivot bolt and take the whole rack off as it is to take out the hitch pin. Imagine coming back to your truck to find that your bikes and rack are both gone, but the lower trailer hitch piece of the rack is still safely locked to the hitch. Seems like a very sloppy oversight to me. Go look at a demo rack in a retail store. You'll see what I mean. The pivot bolt is not protected at all, and it would take only a minute to unscrew it and be gone with the whole rack...despite both of these locks.
