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The E-Trailer locking cable is gonna be a very versatile cable that is gonna be long enough for four bikes, and the nice thing about the length, which is 10 foot, we have plenty of room to loop through not only our bikes, but we can go all the way down to the hitch too. So a big thing with some of these bike racks is some of them come with locks for the rack and some come with locks for the bikes,… see more >

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