Bumper strength
Hello, We have a 2013 Jaco Whitehawk. We'd like to install a receiver and a bike rack. I understand some RV bumpers are not strong enough to hold a bike rack. Any help would be appreciated. The ...
Forum Discussion
Moose0721 wrote:
I understand the shaking part where the bikes will want to bounce up and down, but what if both bikes are very light? Like 50lbs each? I'm sure the weight of the bikes comes into play. I have seen the safety struts and they look very well designed. I'm considering bolting on some 1/4" steel brackets from my frame to my bumper to hold the minimal weight.
You keep calling this "minimal weight", in your other thread as well, but because it's bouncing it's certainly not "minimal". Most are telling you what a poor idea it is to hang anything off the far rear of your camper, especially a short hybrid trailer like yours. Years ago when I hauled 3 bikes using a hitch mounted Swagman bike rack on the rear of our Explorer the only way I could stop those bikes from wagging all over the place was to strap them down tightly with nylon web straps but that's not a practical solution on the rear of a trailer where there's nothing to latch the ends of those straps to ... and even if you could that won't solve the problem of excessively unloading trailer tongue weight. It's just an all around bad idea. :(
