I will be trailering my bike to the Florida Keys, I have heard many ways of how to tie down a bike. Does anyone have pictures of a dyna tied down?

 

you're gonna pass an *** load of bikes riding back from Cherokee that are gonna point and laugh

 

If you can, put your front straps around the risers and pull the bike into the shoe. Then cover it so nobody can see the disservice you're doing to your bike.

 

I know there is at least one thread on here about tie-downs and bikes. I'm sure there are more.

A search using "tie down trailer" as query turned this up...

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...e-to-indy.html

Personally, I like using the fork tube/lower tree as an attach point and the top shock mount for the rear.

 

Here you go:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/4302413-post17.html

 

Hmm...adding a rag between the strap and the tree would have me worried. What if the rag shifts...blows out..then you have a loose strap. I've just run the tie-down around the fork tube at the lower tree. It doesn't mark, scratch or damage the aluminum unless you have large debris (metal shavings,etc) embedded in the nylon.

 

When I served in the NLD Airmobile Brigade we learned how to prepare heli air lift loads and always used protective felt around straps where they hit sharp or cornered edges, so it became sort of a "second nature" and I adopted this way of working when trailering my bike.
I used the rag in order to prevent the strap being sqeezed into the 90 degree corner of the tripple tree and the fork tube.
Nowadays I use protective tubing, made out of isolation tubing (see pics attached)

 

WOOOOOOO. Hold Up. A Harley on a trailer. Please, for the love of God. Before you hit the road pull all the HD badges and stick some Honda badges on it.

 

Will this help?

 

I posted this in a previous thread. This method has worked well for me as I've trailered the **** out of mine.