Yakima - Dead Lock

Description

The DeadLock lets you lock your bikes directly to your Yakima mast style hitch-mount, and secure your hitch rack to your vehicle. So if you stop for pancakes on the way to the trails, you can enjoy peace of mind along with your short stack.

• One key to lock your bikes and your rack
• Upper lock secures outside bike to the mount with cable and steel pin
• Hitch lock secures the rack to your vehicle
• Injection molded lock and metal core
• The name itself strikes fear into the hearts of devious thieves

Product Reviews

Customer Reviews

Customer Rating:  4.2 stars based on 10 reviews

Customer Rating: good product, but a little bit too short By S. Huang from Torrance, CA USA I purchased this in Amazon marketplace. We used it for our recent camping on Jun/22/2008 from LosAngeles to BigSur (7-hour driving.) The quality is good, and robust. However, with three bikes loaded (I use Yakima KingPin 4,) the cable is too short to connect to the lock. I only cross the cable to the last bike (outmost one,) and need to pull the cable quite hard to connect it to the lock. It is better to add about 3 more inches. Customer Rating: Yakima Deadlock Review By D. McCabe from WV, USA Great product custom designed for the Yakima hitch racks. Super easy to use and love the way the bike lock cable hides away into the rack itself. Brilliant. Customer Rating: Solid Product By Neal R. Bloomquist from Carterville, IL Exactly what I expected. Stores cleanly in the rack when not in use. Good buy. Customer Rating: good but could be better By Robert W. Koffler from Pittsburgh, PA I really like the lock. However I wish the cable were longer. Also, the yakima bike rack I purchased did not have the hole to mount the lock as it should have so i had to drill the hole myself. Not a big deal, but for as much as it cost it should have worked and fit as it was described. Having said all that, I like the lock and I no longer worry about leaving the bikes whenever I go into a store. Customer Rating: Godsend By L. Leo from New Jersey Finally, we can stop and eat at a restaurant after a bike ride or run in to get supplies on the way to our ride. It does it's job and it isn't a big, ugly chain. Customer Rating: Great system, works for us., By V. Iazzetta from Boise, ID Great system, secures rack and bikes. Cable hooks around the outermost bike holding it and any other inboard bikes on the rack. Simple and secure. Customer Rating: Great Product By Jason "Jason" from Detroit, MI This is a great addition to my Yakima rack. The cord is a little short. You are only able to lock it around the rear bike, but that should do the trick. Customer Rating: Simple and effective, By TWM "traxiii" from Bay Area, CA This lock won't safe guard your wheels, but it will keep your bike attached to your rack and slides away almost completely unseen when not in use. We still use another chain to keep our wheels safe, but I still recommend this lock for extra piece of mind. Well worth the price! Customer Rating: Make a pit-stop without worry By B. Scates from Tampa, FL So, you're getting ready to go on an incredible cross-country trip but worry that at each fast food restaurant, gas station, or rest area stop someone will have to stay behind to watch over your bikes, especially if it's late at night or in a rough part of town. The cable is long enough to wrap around the top frames of two or more bicycles (depending on the carrier you choose). When not in use, the cable slides down into the hollowed-out tube of the Yakima carrier and stays in place until you need it again. As an additional plus, when I ordered this cable lock with the locking hitch pin as a set, I was able to use the same key to access both locks. The only way you could beat this system is with a cable cutter, but that is probably highly unlikely to happen. This item is a great anti-theft deterrent and I do recommend it. Customer Rating: WARNING: This product doesn't work for Yakima racks that fold By T. Beck So I bought this lock package to protect both my bikes and my new Yakima DoubleDown rack. Unfortunately there is a HUGE design flaw with how this system works on the DoubleDown racks. Yes, you can lock the bikes to the rack and also the rack to the hitch with this product. Unfortunately, Yakima engineers didn't seem to think about securing the pivot bolt in the middle where the rack folds down. It is just as easy (if not even easier) to simply unscrew that pivot bolt and take the whole rack off as it is to take out the hitch pin. Imagine coming back to your truck to find that your bikes and rack are both gone, but the lower trailer hitch piece of the rack is still safely locked to the hitch. Seems like a very sloppy oversight to me. Go look at a demo rack in a retail store. You'll see what I mean. The pivot bolt is not protected at all, and it would take only a minute to unscrew it and be gone with the whole rack...despite both of these locks. 1-10 of 10

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