Ralph Cramden wrote:
A lot of posts about bumpers and bike racks are based on nothing more than repetitive internet forum hearsay, and the best are the ones that use the picture previously posted which has been posted over and over and over in bike rack bumper threads for 10 years.
Mine is based on personal experience. Darn near lost two bikes off the back of a class c when the thin-walled bumper started tearing itself from the supports. I'm not a welder, so I wasn't about to try to beef it up, so I relied on other methods to carry my bikes.