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What's up everybody, it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we gonna be checking out the RockyMounts BackStage. It's gonna be a platform-style bike rack, hold the two bikes, and as you can already see the main feature is it swings away from the back of your vehicle with it fully loaded so you can access your tailgate. If you have a vehicle that has a spare tire or a door that opens from the side, on the hinge, you can open that up with the bikes fully loaded with this out of the way and get to the back of your vehicle for whatever cargo you need to get to. Whether you forgot to throw something in there or you're getting something out and you don't wanna have to undo all the bikes. Let's check it out.
The swing-out feature's really handy and it's easy to use, so I appreciate that. Sometimes when you add these feature on bike racks it can be a little convoluted to use. Whereas you use these two blue knobs, so, to tilt it in, you're gonna pull this one up, it starts to come in, then we'll go ahead and pull the one closer to the bikes up here, that's gonna allow that part to move. And once that's unhitched, I'm gonna go to the front, 'cause it's just easier to maneuver this way, and we'll put it back in place. You can see how easily it glides I don't have to push really hard on or anything.
And as I push it in there, that knob goes right into place. You see it's locked in there. And then we have the hand crank, we can just tighten this down as well, and what this is gonna do is further hold it in place. So if for some reason you hit a bump and this latch came undone, this just wouldn't swing right back out. This tightens it up and keeps it all in place.
Now the same thing, just swing it right back out, but I just wanna show you, let's loosen this knob here. That way you can come loose, you can hear it loosen and we'll pull this out so then it'll swing away. So as you bring it out, same thing as last time, bring it to about here. You can turn it as well, cause you wanna turn to make sure it doesn't hit that taillight as you come out. You can do it all in one fluid motion and the knobs lock into place.
The bike rack also has a tilting feature so I can tilt it away by pulling out on this lever here. I'm gonna put my hand on the same post I was telling you to hold onto earlier and slowly tilt it down and away from the vehicle. Now this is a good option just in case you forgot to throw something in the back. You can quickly get to it. Now you can't have full access but this gives you pretty good access. So if you just wanna do something really quick, not that it's hard to swing it out or anything, but there's just as that much easier. You just tilt it down. I grabbed something out of the cooler I was waiting to grab or throw something in here that I forgot, close this up. And just as easy as it was to close the tailgate it's just as easy just to tilt this back up. Status back at a place on its own, so you don't have to do anything. The first thing I would wonder is, with all those moving parts, how does it handle behind your vehicle. So that in the truck we're gonna drive around the parking lot and see how it does. So it look's like there's little side to side movement, which is normal with bike racks, we're gonna go over some speed bumps, looks like it's bouncing back and forth but the bikes aren't moving. So yeah, the bike rack itself bounces back and forth but the bikes aren't moving at all, they're staying in place, which is good. That's what you want. It seems like it would move a little bit more just because of that hinge and the ability to swing out, but it's not bad. So we're past the bumps now and we're just gonna go just slightly uphill in the parking lot, still going kind of slow, but just that way I can keep an eye on the bike rack and the parking lot. Looks fine in the turn, actually moves less than I thought it was going to. Handled pretty good, didn't really move at all, any more than it did on the bumps. There wasn't as much side to side on the aggressive turns I did. That's impressive. The bikes stayed in place, the rack is the only thing that swayed back and forth just a little bit. And that's because of these hooks that put the pressure down on the tire instead of the frame. So this would be good. This is normally for platform racks that have this style, hooks down on the tire, that way you can put this carbon fiber bike on there and don't worry about damaging this frame at all. The hook's not gonna put any pressure here. It ju