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granitebaygeeze
Nov 05, 2015Explorer
Greatly enjoyed reading your article. While doing so noticed the desire to mount bikes on the rear bumper. Reason, our son did exactly that and for maybe a year all appeared fine. Then, on their way home from camping the bumper failed, bikes and rack hit the highway.
Learned from every rv and welding repair shop we visited that metal fatigue from the cantilever affect of bikes mounted this way eventually leads to another failure. They recommended mounting the bikes on tow vehicle roof. So after having the bumper replaced hereafter their Yukon xl is the bike hauler.
Learned from every rv and welding repair shop we visited that metal fatigue from the cantilever affect of bikes mounted this way eventually leads to another failure. They recommended mounting the bikes on tow vehicle roof. So after having the bumper replaced hereafter their Yukon xl is the bike hauler.
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