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springoflife
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Mar 29, 2016

Mounting Crossbars (for Bike Rack) onto older Camper Roof

I have a 1997 Jayco 1207DD. It has the older style, semi-flat roof, made with an aluminum skin over foam board (not an ABS design). I want to mount a bike rack to the camper. I would like to use on...
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springoflife
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Mar 30, 2016
Campfire Time wrote:
We had a '93 1208 that had the same type of roof. Jayco used to sell as an accessory bars to mount a bike rack. They bolted on to the sides of the roof.


Campfire Time,
Thank you, that makes me more confident.

When you say the bars bolted on to the "sides of the roof", do you mean the vertical plywood sides of the roof (the bolts would be driven parallel to the road)? Or do you mean they bolted to the edges/perimeter of the rooftop (the bolts would be driven downwards)?

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