Product Description

DEATH TO THIEVES, WE SAY. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S ILLEGAL. SO DETER THEM INSTEAD WITH THE DEADLOCK. 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 Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3063 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Yakima
• Model: 8002411
• Released on: 2008-01-18

Features

• Bike rack lock for securing bikes to Yakima hitch-mount bike rack
• Upper lock secures outside bike to the mount with cable and steel pin
• Secondary hitch lock secures rack to vehicle; includes 1 key for both locks
• Injection-molded design with metal core; ideal for preventing bike theft
• Backed by limited lifetime warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy peace of mind while driving with your bikes with the Yakima DeadLock. Offering an easy way to lock your bikes directly to your Yakima hitch-mount bike rack--and in turn secure your hitch-mount to your car--the DeadLock strikes fear into the hearts of devious thieves. The unit includes an upper lock that secures the outside bike to the hitch-mount using a cable and steel pin, along with a hitch lock that secures the rack to your vehicle. Drivers can rest assured that the DeadLock will hold up to use and abuse thanks to the lock's injection-molded design and metal core. Plus, the lock comes with a single key for locking both your bikes and the rack. As with all Yakima products, the DeadLock carries a limited lifetime warranty.

Customer Reviews

Simple and effective
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!

WARNING: This product doesn't work for Yakima racks that fold down
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.

Great Product
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.