Thule EasyFold XT

Rack arrived in a timely fashion. After having watching a detailed video review, I was already familiar with the rack and had it unpacked, attached to my hitch receiver, and bike loaded in 30 mins. Most impressed with the convenient keyed locking system that locks the rack to the hitch, and locks the grab arm to my bike frame. Took a few mins to initially decide where I wanted the grab arm to go for bike #1 and for bike #2. Once that is set up, placing 1 or 2 bikes on there will be much faster. Love the wheels on the unit and the stored ramp. Only minus is that I have to remove the rack from the hitch to fit my car in the garage as it's too long otherwise. If it folded back to the car more, that would not be the case. Overall very pleased with the features, ease of use and look of this unit. Very sturdy and no sway movement when driving. Highly recommend.

My only complaint is that it doesn’t support fat tire e-bikes with up to 5 inch tires and that there is no harness to hook up tail lights. It only comes with reflectors. My bumper sits low so it is hard to see the red reflectors at night. However, besides those 2 issues, absolutely well thought out and easily the best bike rack I’ve ever bought or owned. The wheels on the bottom make it as easy to move when not attached to my car. Also, I should mention, it comes fully assembled and ready to be mounted on your vehicle. Extremely easy to hold, lock in place with a key and remove from vehicle.

Very sturdy, easy to put on hitch, easy to load ebike for a 65 year old woman. Plus, the bonus is after you take off the rake, you can roll it into the garage. It is also theft proof, great for travelling.

Based on online reviews, I did not think that this rack would be sturdy enough, so I bought a Kuat NV 2.0 -- a gorgeous, tough rack, but a total beast to manage. If I wanted to leave a rack on the car or truck however, this is the one I would get. But after I wrestled it on and off the car a couple of times, I sent it back. Too damned heavy.Start with what sort of eBike rider you are. If you are young, strong, and race up hills, heavy racks are fine. But if you are old, strong, and race up hills -- or old and like flat roads -- having a lighter rack that is easy to manage counts for a lot.My local eBike shop assured me that they had seen great results with the EasyFold, so after I sent the Kuat back, I bought one. And it immediately made me nervous. Lots of plastic on this thing. Long wheelbase bikes don't fit well. The clamping system seems kinda hinky. I thought the ramp was a joke -- although some people really like it.But getting it on and off the car is a breeze. It folds up, wheels away, and stows easily. I even found the cover for it. We have tested it with two expensive eBikes a few times now -- and it's been rock solid.Check YouTube to see how these racks work. I learned a few things:1. I pay a LOT of attention to clamping the hitch tightly into the receiver. I move the rack every which way and get the hitch very, very tight before locking it down.2. I don't use the ramp. I just toss the bikes up. You can do one wheel at a time if you need to. YMMV -- some people like the ramp. Looks fussy to me.3. The clamps work fine on our bikes because we have round, normal seat tubes. But the clamps take some practice. You want to get them on straight, no weird angles. Tighten them until the torque clutch slips. I am not sure that these clamps will work with every pair of bikes, but they do a decent job with ours. And the clamps lock, which is nice (I would trust these locks for few minutes in a store. Much longer, add a proper lock or a serious cable). Update: my bike was stolen (not off the rack) and my replacement bike is MUCH harder to secure. If your bike doesn’t have normal, vertical seat tubes or a seat post within reach of the clamps, this rack doesn’t work well. Dropped to four stars.4. Strapping and clamping the wheels is easy and important. Again, I am not sure that a real long wheelbase will be happy on this rack, but up to 1200cm or so works fine.5. Most of the miles we have with this rack are on-road or good dirt roads. I would hesitate to take it on really rutted roads -- but then I hesitated to buy it in the first place and it has been fine.6. Some cars, including ours, freak out when there is a hitch rack on the vehicle. All of the backup collision sensors go nuts and sometimes you cannot turn them off very easily. Nice thing about this rack is that you can fold it up, pop it off, and store it in the car in about a minute.7. E-bike batteries are heavy, but removable. Taking them out and carrying them in the cuts the weight on the rack a lot.So far (six months in) I am happy with the rack. Maybe a bit more city than country -- it's made for smooth roads and small garages. But if that is what you need and the price does not scare you off, it's a very clever, decent rack worthy of the Thule badge.

This is an AWESOME bike rack. I bought this for the ebike I have on order (Rad Power Bikes RadCity Step-Thru 3). Many Rad customers have spoken highly of this rack and I was fortunate enough to have ordered this a few weeks ago at $622. I wanted to be all set for when my bike is delivered in a couple of weeks.I purchased a hitch receiver here on Amazon and had it installed on my 2020 Rogue yesterday. When I got home, I tried out the rack.The printed instructions that come with the rack are next to useless. They are like Ikea instructions--no words, just semi-cryptic drawings (with "X" for "for god's sake don't do this!!"). What is MUCH more helpful is to watch a few of the videos on YouTube reviewing and demonstrating how the rack works. The only area in which I had difficulty was knowing how much force to use in tilting the rack upright after tilting it down for access to the cargo area. I kept thinking there was something blocking it from locking back into place. Nope, you just gotta use some muscle and a modicum of force to snap it back into the upright position. Same thing with the ramp (another awesome feature)--you need to use a reasonable amount of force to snap the vinyl tabs on the ramp into the slot.So it took me a bit of time to figure out how it all actually works, but once you know, it's super easy/convenient. The rack is quite heavy (48 lbs), but weakling that I am, I was able to mount it on the hitch receiver without much difficulty. I did order the longer ramp, which I think I will need for getting my bikes up there due to the height on my SUV. For me, one of the VERY best features is that the rack, when removed/folded up, has wheels that make it easy to move from my house to the car.I'm VERY happy with my purchase--this thing is WELL worth the extra money--even at the current price point.

Expensive, but seemingly worth it. This is the best rack my wife and I have seen and it ends up working just as advertised.Here are some comments and suggestions for potential buyers in response to other reviews and from my own observations and experience:1. Definitely watch the video review of this rack at [...] It is very helpful given the scant documentation and problems others have mentioned with the graying out of the installation diagrams.2. The rack ships with the 2-inch adaptor installed. As noted by others, the hexhead screws holding this to the end of the stinger are extremely tight. They can, however, be removed with the included hex wrench. Just make sure the short end of the wrench is fully inserted into the screw heads before turning in order to avoid stripping the screws. Perhaps you should tap the wrench with a hammer before applying twisting torque to make sure the wrench is fully inserted.3. Do not attempt to adjust the remaining screw with the colored thread in the 1.25" stinger.4. Removing the second cushioned clamp is a good idea if you are carrying only one bike. Leaving it on the rack might create a potential for the second clamp to vibrate during transport and thus damage the finish of the single bike being carried if it is not carefully positioned and held away from the single bike being carried. The video review shows exactly how to remove the second longer clamp if you watch closely. What the video doesn't say or even imply is that there is NO WAY to remove the second clamp before you actually mount this bike rack on your car. I'm not sure why that is so, but it is. Thus, don't worry at all the way I did, thinking the rack was defective, when I struggled with all my might for an hour or more trying to get that second longer clamp to detach from the rack. Once the bike rack was mounted on the car, the second longer clamp released with little effort, as if by magic.5. As others have mentioned the anti-rattle pin seems kind of useless, at least when used without the 2-inch adaptor. The pin just fits into a recess in the 1.25-inch shaft. It does not go into the hollow middle of that shaft, much less all the way through the shaft and out the hole on the other side. The pin thus doesn't seem to provide much protection against the rack falling out of the receiver shaft and thus falling to the road. The real tightening is done by tightening that anti-rattle knob as tight as you can with your hand. Tightening that knob expands the 1.25-inch shaft, making a very tight wedged fit between the rack's shaft and the receiver shaft. Tightening that knob also tightens the anti-rattle pin in the recess into which it fits, making it impossible to move the anti-rattle pin out of that recess. Thus, perhaps the "useless" anti-rattle pin really does prevent rattles and provide additional structural integrity this way, who knows?6. The ramp works as adverstised and certainly does not tend to collapse under the weight of a fairly heavy Sun bike (not electric). I seriously doubt whether the extra weight of an electric bike would tend to collapse this ramp. While made of aluminum and not steel, It is quite thick and seems very sturdy.7. The extra strap which came attached to the second longer clamp can be used to lock together the two sections of the platform when no bikes are being carried and the two platform sections are stored vertically. While pressing the plastic release hinges is necessary to get the two sections to lay horizontal, without strapping the two sections together, they will tend to come apart a few inches and thus not be vertical. Some rattling might occur this way. Strapping them together with the extra nylon locking strap will prevent this.8. Thule should provide some sort of storage bag for keeping together the second longer clamp, the ramp, the 2-inch adapter, and the hex wrench. This bag of goodies could then be kept with or near the rack or in the car to allow the owner to stay prepared to carry one or two bikes or to use the rack on a different vehicle.

(My Requirements)I purchased the Thule EasyFold XT 2 Hitch Bike Rack after doing a lot of homework on an easy-to-install, easy-to-use bike rack for our 2 bikes. A Trek FX3 road bike and an Electra Townie 7D Step-Thru bike. Two totally different types of bike frames, weight and design. I also wanted an easy rack to pull out of the box and install on either of our SUV’s hitches, a 2” and a 1.25-inch hitch. Storage was also a prime requirement as our garages already had so many items to store in an organized fashion; I didn’t need something that did not store easily.And the most important requirement was the ease of loading, unloading, and protecting our bikes, without lifting, numerous bungee cords, protective padding, etc. And a rack that would be useful as our bike styles change.I read all of the reviews, watched many videos, and decided to give it a go. Why not? It had a 30-day return policy.(Delivery and Install Day!)The product arrived on time, and the box was in perfect condition. It was time to dive right in, open the box, and pull the product right out of the box. I found it fully assembled as promised by the videos and reviews. Removed some packing materials and the product was ready to use. How easy is that? I rolled it over to my SUV, pulled down the receiver arm (stinger), picked it up (only 45 pounds), and it slid right into my hitch receiver. Turned the nob to tighten the hitch and the receiver arm. I used the key to lock the knob and was on to the next step.Folded down the platforms, and it was ready to mount the bikes.OK, so it's time to mount and adjust the bike secure arms. This took a few minutes since it was new to me, and both bikes differed in frame design. Instructions tell me to install the heaviest bike closest to the vehicle first. So, I used the included ramps to load the Towne first. Wow, was that easy! Just rolled it up! I strapped down the wheels with the built-in straps with a ratchet feature and found the best location for the stabilizer arm to attach to the bike and the rack. Tighten it down, locked the knob, and got ready for the next bike.For the FX3, I just picked up, strapped it down, and found the best mounting place for the stabilizer arm. And I was ready to go.No more straps, bungees, pads, etc. I’m ready to go. All was secure and locked, and we were on our way!(Driving with it attached and loaded)We have had a few very good and well-made hitch-mounted bike racks. However, the strapping down, bungee the wheels, protecting the bikes from hitting each other in transit, the locking with a cable lock, and the noticeable bouncing and swaying became annoying. I even built an antisway bar to keep our bikes from hitting each other. And for the Townie, I required a top tube adapter sometimes called a crossbar substitute.This took way more time and frustration to secure everything than with our new Thule EasyFold XT 2 Hitch Bike Rack.Biking is supposed to be fun, right?Unloading was just a reverse of loading; we folded up the platform. We are ready to ride!!We have taken the bike rack off and stored it in the back of the SUV, but for many of the places we go, we just leave it on, fold it up, and back our vehicle into our parking space so the rack does not hang out into the riding or driving areas.Now for the take-it-off and store. Well, reverse of install, roll it into the garage and let me tell you the footprint of this product is smaller than my snow blower or lawn mower. Don’t even know it’s there.(Overall recommendation)If you’re looking for an easy-to-assemble, easy-to-install, easy-to-use, easy-to-store, which I was, I give this product a thumbs up!!! It was well worth the price paid. Now, as our bikes change our lifestyle, we can add mountain bikes and e-bikes without a problem. We even take our little kids' bikes just to take them someplace.Enjoy and Bike-On!

I researched for a bike rack that is easily removable, but lockable, durable, can carry two large, fat-tire e-bikes, and one that wouldn't break the bank. I found everything but that last feature.The wife and I have e-bikes with 4" tires and weigh around 59-60 lbs. There are lighter weight bikes out there but we've already spent the money - and these bikes "fold" or they used to. Hang out in Florida too much and that ability to fold easily goes away... something, something, salt-water.Anyway, this rack is great. Using the "not-included" larger straps, it holds the bikes really well. The locking mechanism should be frustrating for any would-be thief (which is bad because if my bikes were stolen, it'd give me an excuse to buy new ones, but alas...)Is it worth the money? Yeah, really it is because look - it takes 2 minutes to pull this off the hitch and tuck it away somewhere. It weighs all of 45 lbs. by itself, so carrying it around is super easy (although, the wife says she still can't lift it - odd, she was a SCUBA instructor and lugged around air tanks, now she's with me and they're too heavy to lift, go figure). Anyway, "most" people can lift and move around 45 lbs. pretty easy, so... for the money, I think it's great.

Facil de montar y desmontar.Los cinchos para sujetar las llantas son algo cortos y los largos tienen un costo adicional, y por cierto muy elevado.Para lo que cuesta los debería incluir tomando en cuenta que este rack se usara en mayor parte para bicis de montaña con llanta grande.Aparte de eso es un producto excelente.

My purchase of the THULE bike rack was amazing, great solid design and strength.Really easy to fit to my vehicle tow bar, easy to put our bikes on and a great locking system to keep them safe. Awesome product

Review updateOne problem i did experience is with the rack and 2 heavy bikes on the back of my 2023 subaru Forester packed for a long camping trip (across canada) I experienced higher then normal tire wear with the original tires on the forester caused by the weight especially the bikes extending out past the bumperVery happy with this product.Easy to install and use on your car and works perfect with a hatch back as it tips out of the way allowing easy access to hatch.System for securing bikes is very easy to use and worked great with our 2 eBikes even though the bikes tube's are wider then most.Bikes are securely held away from rear of car ensuring no damage to your vehicle and the spacing between the 2 bikes is perfect and keeps bikes from banging off each other.Product is on the expensive side but it is high quality.This rack is rated for heaver bikes and is a perfect option for heavy EBikes.

Purchased the bike mount for my wife’s e-bike. It can accept the weight of two e-bikes. They are 25kg each. Installed easily on my two inch hitch (removing a metal sleeve will allow it to be attached to small sized hitch opening). Liked the fact it can be folded and rolled (yes, it has two wheels for moving it around). Also liked the fact it can be tilted away from the back of my SUV with a step on a convenient foot lever so I can lift the back hatch up. Very impressed with the build quality. The professional reviews gave it high marks. Expensive but worth it.

No me gusto q venia con una rueda rota