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Hi there trailer owners. Today, we're going to be taking a look at Swagman Straddler 2-Bike Carrier for A-frame trailers. When you're hauling your trailer or your pop-up camper or your travel trailer, any of those you're using your hitch already. So now your bikes and your bike racks and things like that, you're going to have to try to fit inside your trailer and your truck bed or something else because you can't put your bike rack in your hitch.Well, with this on our trailer here, we've got an additional two-inch receiver here on our trailer, so we can fit accessories in it like our bike racks and bring those along with us. So on top here, you can see we've got our two-inch by two-inch receiver that uses a standard 5/8 inch hitch pin and clip. This is going to be great for whatever accessories you're wanting to place in here.

It does have a maximum of a 100-pound tongue weight. So you do want to keep that in mind.It is a universal fit that's designed to work with your A-frame trailer. You can mount in various different locations as these arms are adjustable. And the design of them allows it to go around your propane tanks. You can see here, we've got ours installed and it butts up and it does sit right above our propane tank cover here.Now it's not just limited to propane tanks.

If you have a toolbox or other accessories here as well, that is kind of the main purpose of this setup is to be able to have our arms extended outside of our A-frame and bring our hitch here up above those accessories. This rack is designed to work with up to two propane tanks that are each 30 pounds, and that's the size that we've got here. You can see our cover. And it is a little bit of a tight fit here, but it does work just fine.So we'll go ahead and show you a typical application here. We're going to go ahead and slide our bike rack in.

So we're just going to finish installing this like we would as if it was going into our normal hitch. Go ahead and tighten down our anti-rattle bolt and secure it with the pin on the opposite side.One of the things I did want to point out is that since it's got a universal design and you can kind of position it on your frame as necessary to avoid your accessories here, we we're able to get in a position where it all works and we can still use our jack here without any problems. And then you can go ahead and load up your bikes. You may need a step stool or an extra set of hands when doing it because it is up pretty high here. I'm a pretty tall guy, so I don't have too much trouble with it, but it is definitely more of a struggle than loading it on the hitch at the back of your vehicle.Now that we've got it fully loaded up, we're going to go ahead and take it out on our test course so you can see how it's going to operate behind your vehicle.

So as we head into the test course, we're going to start by going over our uneven bumps section. This is going to simulate potholes and other uneven terrain. And you can see our bike rack is wobbling back and forth here. But we don't have any type of clearance issues and our bikes seem to be securely mounted onto it.Next we're going to head into the even bump section. And while driving it, this one got a little bit scarier in the driver's seat. But when we take a closer look on the GoPro and things like that, we noticed that we don't have any clearance issues here either even though the rack does appear to be coming close to the back windshield. And then we make our long turn coming back around.We went ahead and we're going to stop here and going to take a look at our clearances because it does seem to be coming close to our back windshield. We're going to hop out and take a closer look. It did concern me how close it looked like we we're getting. And if you look here, it is close, but we've got plenty of clearance here.On our first test run when we checked it out, we we're using just a traditional ball mount and it got a little bit too close for comfort. So to get around that, we used an extended ball mount here that does reach out and extend this out about 10 inches to do this. Now, this is really only a concern here because we're using an SUV and our bike rack could potentially come into contact here with our lift gate. If you we're in a truck though, your tailgate would be down here and you'd have no clearance issues whatsoever in a truck. So if you're planning on using this setup with an SUV, you may or may not need an extension to get