Bike carrier on Jayco

Dave

A friend had his bike rack attached to the spare wheel as you are suggesting. I was travelling not far behind him when he hit a slightly rough patch of road and the bikes, rack and spare all detached themselves from the bracket on the back of the van and went tumbling down the road with quite a lot of damage.

The mounting is just not strong enough.

He now carries them on a rack on the back of his Landcruiser.

Mike

Dave.

Heard this before too. Jayco have now removed the rear bar from most of the new range to prevent the fitting of accessories and bikes there as i understand.
A mate of mine has a 2000 Millard Monsoon,had bikes in same location and they broke the rear bar off too.
Regards

Greg

Can be done if spare is stored somewhere else. Otherwise make a rack to go on the front of the van.

I would less concerned with a light and more with the problem with the Jayco rear bar only made of thin steel. Bikes would normally sit quite high, sway and shake around. Any weakness in a bracket or weld would eventually give way from the fatigue.

I would suggest you investigate the manufacture of a stronger replacement bar which should be a minimum of 3mm thick box steel.

You might have to replace the box sections that the bar sits in under the chassis to stronger steel as well.

I recently upgraded to 15 inch wheels on our road version 2000 Freedom and intend to carry 2 spares on the rear bar. Unfortunately I need to get a new bar made as the Jayco one isn't capable of carrying the extra weight.