Bike rack

Lantley wrote:
The no poster did not elaborate however no is correct. The OEM bumper is not sturdy enough to support a bike rack. You can get a welder to reinforce the bumper/replace it with a sturdier bumper or have the welder fabricate a rack or hitch to carry bikes. Even then you will need to be concerned about tongue weight and the adverse effects of carrying the
weight hanging off the back.
It can be done but it not as simple or straight forward as installing an off the shelf bike rack

.....So, that's a YES!?
you covered both the yes and the no.

The bumper can be made of quite flimsy thin steel, while other 4 inch square bumpers are made of thicker steel that can handle anything. I assume you are talking about clamping a rack on with a couple of supplied U-bolts? or are you clamping on a receiver hitch with same u-bolts and using a receiver bike rack?

Do it, and if the bikes are looking like they are mounted to a rubber spring, then you likely can just bungee one of the bike tires to the ladder and that will stop the sway and the bumper will be plenty strong to hold the weight. The issue is of how much twisting the bumper might do if it is the flimsy kind.

The best option is to mount a receiver hitch to the main frame of the trailer and go from there.
You can also replace the bumper with a strong bumper and then not have the issue of flymsy bumper.

Without looking at your specific bumper none of us know. You tell us your make and model camper like everyone knows what that is, It is not like vehicle like a F-150 where it is well known and common.

The ladder or even a spare tire, or anything higher up that you can make a second point of contact, is key to making it work. Otherwise you should do some welding to make a strong base.