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Review of the Saris Trunk Bike Racks on a 2017 Toyota RAV4

Hi everyone it's Evangeline here at E Trailer. And today we'll be taking a look at our Saris Bones bike rack. This is a trunk mounted bike rack. So if you don't have a hitch, can't have a hitch but still wanna carry around bicycles this is gonna be one of your options. We can get this as a two or a three bike option. What I have here is the three bike right now.… see more >

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