Lance's new bumper

The commercial was 3:47 . The nonsense intro, horrible really, went over a minute. Maybe they got the owners 5th grader to write the copy to save $$$.
As for the bumper....... I would want to know the weight added. Im not thinking the extra storage would be worth the trade off. As another put it, KISS ,Keep It Simple Stupid.

Truck campers can always use extra storage. If I was getting a new camper I think I would have one installed.

pa traveler wrote:
Truck campers can always use extra storage. If I was getting a new camper I think I would have one installed.

X2!

Truck campers can always use extra storage and a way to configure the stairs and type of stairs that you want to use.

WoodGlue

BradW wrote:

dave17352 wrote:
That sure is a dramatic commercial! Had some nice features though

Ditto. I kept expecting a shirtless Vladimir Putin to come riding by on white stallion headed for a weekend in the Caucasus mountains.

:B

NMace wrote:
It allows for towing and has a place for the sewer hose, did you not listen or is it a memory problem?

If you are looking for negatives I think it will be cost.

The receiver on the bumper is for bikes, skis, barbeques... You do not tow off your TC bumper.

Like the Adventurer bumper, it requires a longer truss extension than normal due to the bigger platform off the rear.

According to the build, it is a 149 pound option. That is a lot of weight on the very back of an 11' camper. Plus, the weight of the junk that will go in it.

I like it....anything is better than the bumpers and steps most were using up to a few years ago. My biggest complaint was that crappy set of steps that Northwood used. Thank goodness for GlowSteps and GlowGuides. With all these new and better bumpers being offered, things are looking up for the entry and exit issues that TC owners have had to experience in the past.

Many TC companies appear to buy their bumpers from the same company, Torklift International. I don't own one or want one for my current TC, a Lance 845. I am well pleased with the one installed by Lance on it originally.

http://www.torklift.com/products/bumper.php

The 149 lb added weight to the rear isn't squat or even including the weight a reasonable TC'er would carry in the storage areas. Our 11'4" Lance has a 2' X 7' rear porch behind the OEM Lance bumper and on the 189 lb bare carpeted 1/2" walmanized topped welded steel porch structure (as weighed) with a side entry flip up step on the passenger side.

There's a bolted on large steel reinforced lockable storage box with a hinged cover covered with sun-proof formica on the driver's side and it's filled with 2 extra 30 amp black RV cords, our Coleman gas grill, four 2" X 8" X 24" leveling wedges tapered from 1" to 3" in thickness, 2 hoses, 100' cable TV roll, two 6' long coiled security cables with master locks, and a folding shovel.

Next to the storage box is a screwed down wood rim where the Honda EU2000 generator is security cabled into thru welded on eyebolts to the porch frame for when we use it behind a TC without a built in generator and an offset from center door. I like versatility and interchangability and that's how I make things.

I know there's from 400-500 lbs of porch and it gone over 70K so far without any problems and often with either our 2150 lb boat on the ball at the rear of the porch or our 6' X 12' X 6' high 3500 lb vee nosed trailer attached. 250-400 lbs of tongue weight added on the back of the porch! This is carried on our 2004.5 Chevy 2500 CC LB 4X4 with 265 Michelin tires at 80 psi having airbags at 60-70 psi in them all over the USA from Michigan to the Keys and thru Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, etc and to Maine and the East Coast areas. Never one issue or handling problem! "silversand" and a lot of others on this forum have personally seen the rig or have many pics of the rig setup. This works on a GM pickup but you are on your own trying it on a different brand pickup! As a long time automotive engineer working with the Big 3 now retired, I know what various pickup chassis are capable of!

149 lbs or 300 lbs bumper weight isn't squat!!!

While the Lance bumper is interesting, another product that in on the Torklift site looks even better:

Talon

Where we live (northern N.H.) has rust showing on the standard Torklift tiedowns within 12-18 months. A non-steel model makes sense to me.