New Horizons RV | Luxury Full Time RV & Custom Fifth Wheels

My wife and I own a 30 foot 2004 New Horizons fifth wheel with two slides and a rear kitchen. We wanted a coach that was small enough to be pulled behind a pickup truck and fit into smaller parks, yet was spacious enough to support our full time life style. These requirements were best accomplished with two slides and a rear kitchen in a 30 footer. When we were going through the design process many Rvers warned us STRONGLY about rear kitchen disasters. Opening cabinets, broken dishes, and pots and pans in the sink were common instances among the complaints. After almost a year and ten thousand miles of travel on every kind of road surface imaginable, we have not had one problem. We have glass dishes and even a magnetic knife rack in our kitchen. We have never lost one of them on the roughest road. We love our rear kitchen!

My explanation for this is two fold. First, the MOR/ryde Independent suspension is much better at absorbing road and isolating it to one wheel than is a conventional straight axle and leaf spring. The second reason is the shear mass of the trailer. Most production model fivers with rear kitchens are not intended for full time use and are therefore significantly lighter than ours. Mr. Newton told us that force equals mass times acceleration. That means that for a given road impact “force”, more “mass” results in less “acceleration”. It is this acceleration that throws things around in the rear of the coach.

I would be happy to share our experiences and entertain any questions via email via email.

Happy travels!

Take care,
Jim & Chris Rett