Trailering, How do you tie down your bagger?
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From: Near Myrtle Beach, SC
You should never tie you bike to the handlebars. Never. Do it and you will see why. Stick with the engine guard for the front two tie downs, then use the bag guards for the two rear tie downs. I never trust just a wheel chock and two tie straps. That's too much risk in my book. I guess you could say I don't trust the straps enough to put an expensive bike at risk if one breaks. Keep the bike in gear, it wont hurt anything and will prevent excess stress on the straps.
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From: Ashby, Ma
Here's the Kury Tiedown Ladies on my EGC
Use these with wratchet straps to tie down in front pulling into wheel chock. Added straps in rear around rear floor boards, just to keep tension for left/right stability.
Use these with wratchet straps to tie down in front pulling into wheel chock. Added straps in rear around rear floor boards, just to keep tension for left/right stability.
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From: Georgia Mountains
In a Toyhauler. Use a BikePro chock with two straps leading forward from the engine guards. Two more from the passenger floorboard bracket. I've towed thousands of miles (New England and back three times plus other shorter trips) with no problems. You need to check the straps every couple hundred miles or after an especially crappy road because they WILL loosen up and they DO stretch.
I wrap a microfifer towel around the engine guard where the strap goes over...Good luck.
I wrap a microfifer towel around the engine guard where the strap goes over...Good luck.
Road Master
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From: New York / Texas
in the front i use a velcro strap through tire and around upright of the wheel chock, front tied down by the lower triple tree, rear soft hooks around passenger foot board mounts and i leave the security fob with the bike till i stop and then take the fob with me.
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From: KMHT KFMY
Condor wheel chock into the trailer bed, 2 ratcheting straps from looped straps around the frame downtubes and the crash bars to forged eye hooks into the trailer frame at the front corners, then 2 ratcheting straps, from looped straps on the bag guards where the side bars meet the front hoop to forged eye bolts in the trailer frame beside the bike, and 2 more ratcheting straps from the same points to forged eye hooks at the back of the trailer at the corners.
6 straps and a top line wheel chock, bike in Neutral, compression slightly compressed, and none of the bikes have ever moved on the trailer
This was before I upgraded the wheel chock...
6 straps and a top line wheel chock, bike in Neutral, compression slightly compressed, and none of the bikes have ever moved on the trailer
This was before I upgraded the wheel chock...
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From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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From: SE AZ
I've been using something like this for years. From sport bikes up to my Road Glide and it works great. Front wheel chock and strap the rear wheel. Good luck in Daytona. I wish I wasn't stuck in Assghanistan and could go, maybe Sturgis?
http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com...WT.MC_ID=10010
http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com...WT.MC_ID=10010
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Brooklyn, NY
Great thread...I tied mine in 6 points.
Front forks just above fender going towards the rear.
2 on the rear passenger peg good toward. Creating a criss cross pattern ..
Then 2 on the handle bars.
Front forks just above fender going towards the rear.
2 on the rear passenger peg good toward. Creating a criss cross pattern ..
Then 2 on the handle bars.