Gdetrailer wrote:

tomman58 writes "Good Grief as mentioned before I've towed 1000,000 + with the spare and two bikes and an aluminum tool box ( for leveling block storage and little else) on all kinds of roads NOW I am going to do it without the spare."

My bumper mount bike rack with only TWO bikes BARELY was able to make TWO trips for a grand total of 1800 miles before the BUMPER started to RIP away from the welds. There was no tire or any box back there, only the TWO bikes. Hit one really bad pot hole and that is all it took.

Just because YOU have lucked out doesn't mean that OTHERS or even YOU will luckout in the future.

Judging from your profile with the trailer there it wouldn't surprise me of the bumper problem you had. Don't judge other trailers by your Terry. Case closed.

You must understand that WE ALL MUST SHARE the road with others, there are OTHERS depending on YOU to do the RIGHT thing (and safest). Failure of your bumper mount puts others in harms way, this is what you are missing.

Folks YOUR MILEAGE WILL VARY but it WILL happen sometime down the road by directly using the bumper without serious modifications and reinforcements.

A fool and his bumper will soon be parted, I learned and no longer foolish, my bikes ride elsewhere.

You have been warned.

Dick_B wrote:

I wouldn't do it on my rig; too much overhung load for the rough roads and bouncing back end of the TT. Maybe try two bikes back there and two in front of the tow vehicle as we have done for years with a fabricated receiver.