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Yakima Sidewinder Tandem Bike Mount

Yakima Sidewinder Tandem Bike Mount description

The Yakima Sidewinder Tandem Bike Mount is a convenient one person tandem loading system with an easy swing out skewer arm. The Sidewinder firmly holds all tandem frame shapes more securely than a wheel-tray design, and easily holds any 9mm tandem fork using a stainless steel locking long-throw shewer with single side adjustability. Protects bottom mounted cables with unique padded boom cradle and quick release ratcheting straps, and is designed to clear hatches and flip up rear doors on most vehicles. Mounts equally well to round or square crossbars, includes handlebar strap. Full system security with SKS cores-sold seperately.

Bottom Line: The Sidewinder mount makes loading your tandem a piece of cake.

I doubted I would be able to put my (rather heavy) tandem beach cruiser on top of my Lexus RX400h by myself as the Sidewinder ads claimed, but it is true. The Sidewinder is everything I needed. Easy to use, secure, and compact. I highly recommend it.

Cool design - best that i have seen out there - easy to install - fairly easy to load - but it doesn't have a way to lock it to the rack system like the copperhead bike carrier does - someone could, granted with some effort - steal both my $3000 tandem and the $300 carrier with a just a screwdriver.