etrailer | Fit Verified: Curt Bike Rack for 4 Bikes on a 2023 Jayco Alante Motorhome

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Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the CURT Premium Hanging-Style Bike Rack on the back of our 2023 Jayco Alante Motor Home. Now, like I said, it's gonna be a hanging-style bike rack capable of holding up to four bikes. And what makes the CURT Premium unique is the design of the arms. You can see at the very end here, the arms narrowed together so they're a lot closer together. This is gonna make it more accommodating for kids' bikes because those smaller frames typically have a hard time fitting over the dual arm design of most hanging style racks, so it reduces the need to get a bike adapter bar.

Now, depending on how small the frame is and what the shape is, you might still need a bike adapter bar to make it fit properly, but this is definitely gonna help. So if you're getting a bike rack for your family, this is the one I generally point people towards because it's just gonna work better right out of the box, hopefully. Now alongside it, you are still gonna need to be picking up a bike adapter bar for alternative frame bikes, just to make sure they hang level like our green bike is today. The other thing to keep in mind is carbon frame bikes. This is not gonna be a good option for carbon frame bikes because frame contact on a carbon frame isn't gonna be good, it can damage it, and then it does have a total weight capacity of 180 pounds.

So as far as hanging-style racks are concerned this one does have a bit of a heavier capacity, so it's great to see. If you want this in a five-bike version, that can hold up to 225 pounds, and it's gonna have a third set of those kids' cradles on the outside. Now with this, it does have a tilting feature. You have to do that with the bikes unloaded though, and for our motor home, there's really not much purpose for it, really that's just going to be primarily for passenger vehicles. If you have a back hatch that you want to get access into and don't wanna remove it from the hitch, you could tilt it away, again, with the bikes unloaded to open up the back hatch.

Or certain motor homes will have compartment doors where the tilting can help you access the compartment door, but for ours today, we don't have that so it's not really much of a concern. Now if you wanna see that tilting feature in action we've got tons of different test fits on different vehicles so you can probably find yours if you do intend on using this with another vehicle. Or you can watch our full demo where we go into fuller detail with the bike rack. I always like to replace these straps when I'm done, and then we can get some measurements. For the first measurement, it's gonna be the distance added to the back here.

I'm gonna go from the bumper to the outer point of the rack, and that's going to be coming in right at 35 inches. So it does stick out a fair bit, but for four bikes, that's gonna be pretty solid. Keep in mind if you get the five-bike version, it will stick out just a little further, but nothing crazy. And then when it's not in use, you can fold the arms down by removing this pin and clip, folding those down, and resecuring it. So let's say we get to our campsite, we take the bikes off, we want to reduce the amount of space this takes up we can do that, or maybe we're just not bringing our bikes with us and we still wanna leave this in the hitch so it's ready to go for next time. In this state, it's only gonna be sticking out 9 1/2 inches to the outer point here from the bumper so that's a lot more condensed and easy to work with. At the hitch, it's working with our two-inch by two-inch receiver tube, and it's going to come with an anti-rattle bolt that keeps things solid in the hitch. It doesn't lock up, so that is a downside for me. Something I'd maybe compare this to is the Yakima LongHaul. That one is going to come with locks. It's going to be a easier system to fold the arms down, and it doesn't have a tilt-away feature. So if you're only using it for your motor home, I don't think you need a tilting feature, and it's gonna give you a much more stable rack because for this one, at that