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Yakima King Cobra Bike Mount

Yakima King Cobra Bike Mount description

The Yakima King Cobra Bike Mount is the ultimate authority on simple, upright mounts, regardless of frame design or wheel size. The King Cobra firmly grips any size wheel from 20" to 29", and easily holds any bike with front suspension or disc brakes. This nifty rack mounts equally well to round or square crossbars, and is quick and easy to load without harming painted surfaces.

This rack is so easy to use/install. I have a 2002 blazer and I am 5'2" and using these racks works out great for me. The bikes are very secure and I love how easy these are to use. I have 2 bikes loaded within 5 minutes. They are very versatile as well, meaning you can put any type/size bike in these racks. I am a happy camper!

This thing is great. It was easy to mount onto my 06 Impreza with Yakima Mighty Mounts, and it works great for my Yeti 575 Mountain Bike.It hold my bike securely, doesn't sway, and is easy to take on/off.I really like the fact you don't have to take off the front wheel to get your bike onto the car.It affect gas mileage quite a bit, but what rack doesn't?If you have an expensive bike and need the best rack possible, I recommend the King Cobra.

overall this is a great rack to have, but there are a couple things Yakima could improve on. For one, the locking red bolt up front to keep the front wheel holder in place will loosen while you drive. After driving the highway for 4 or 5 hours and then down a gnarly dirt road (driving pretty slow too as there were infinite amounts of potholes), my bike went crooked in the wheel holder, made a clunk sound from above, and almost fell off the roof. In their defense i think there is a disclaimer in the instructions not to drive on such roads, but c'mon.... Most people with the bikes they need this rack for will be driving dirt roads at some point. So I found out the hard way that you need to tighten that every time you stop, or stop and check if it's been a while and the road is about to get bumpier. Also, the bikes do seem to sway a lot at lower speeds around town. I've never had any problems with that by itself, but the noise of them on the roof is a little unsettling sometimes. Other than that, this rack has been great. I have a lefty fork so it's harder to use a fork mount anyways, and it's really nice to not deal with taking off the front wheel. Getting the bike up and in the rack is relatively easy as well. It's nice that the back portion of the front wheel hold rocks up and into place automatically as you roll the bike forward and into the front hold. That way you don't have to balance the bike in place while you're messing with attaching and locking the rack.