street motorcycle hauling

I accomplished my goal of having an easily removable chock. I simply put down a rubber floor mat. I then Placed a $65 Harbor Freight chock atop the mat. I rode the bike up into the chock. Tied down from front forks to D-rings and rear crash bars to D-rings. My bike didn't move a millimeter the whole 600 miles to AR and home. No drilling, or mounting. When I reached the campsite, I just lifted the chock out and placed it under the VRV.


Untitled by oneboltzfan, on Flickr

I have Pingel removeable chocks for both bikes we carry. We have a gold wing and a VTX 1300. Use 3" ratchet tie downs looped over the cross bracing between the forks. That doesn't hurt street bikes unless you have air filled front forks then it might damage the seals. Most bikes have springs with fluid so no issues with pulling them down.

Great ideas, I'm really interested in mounting the chocks for easy removal. I screwed the chocks through the floor on my last camper and hated it. I definitely want a removable chock system this time around.

Wheel chock yes, collapse the front suspension is a no on a street bike. I strap mine on the front using loops around the hubs, never moves or comes loose.

Yellermanx wrote:

Billieg2 wrote:
Just bought a toy hauler almost brand new. Put my bike in back and tied it down with 4 straps so tight it was like it was welded to the floor. 40 miles later I stopped at a rest area and checked on it. It was over on it's side with the handle bar going through the wall...

I have always used a wheel chock and never had any problems but I just bought this away from home and couldn't put one in till I got home. It now has a harbor freight locking wheel chock.

Unless you want to destroy your bike and toy hauler a locking wheel chock is the only way to go with 4 straps.

I agree. I towed mine a couple times with just a chock. Tied down well. However it would still move. I had to keep tightening and adjusting it even with many straps. The bottom wants to walk out from under the bike. I got lucky and never dropped it.

The chock needs to be stationary. Once in the stationary chock I put two sets of straps on the front and then one or two straps on the back semi snug to keep it from bouncing side to side. Only need one set on front but I feel better with two.

I have towed dirt bikes all over the place without a chock and never had a problem. However they are light and you can really collapse the suspension and the knobbies grip pretty good too.

The Condor chock is very nice. Just happened to be the first person to see it on Craigslist for a change. :B

I don't like drilling holes in things. Here's mine.

I now have a different TH and had to adapt my mount. The "new" TH has E-track. I drilled the tie downs and put a roll pin through them to keep the angle from coming up. Roll pin not necessarily needed but I checked with my "department of redundancy department" and it made me feel better. I slotted my angle and used the tie downs to hold it down. The angle is just a little short but that is what it was and is fine.

05extcabflare wrote:
I just purchased condor wheel chock.

Be sure to adjust it to your bike per the instructions. Nice chock, love mine.

I just purchased condor wheel chock. I'm using yellowmax idea and purchased Kuryakyn teardrop tie down brackets to install on the bike permanant. Now looking into purchasing wireless back up camera and put inside the camper to monitor the bike. Has anyone does this. Any ideas what camera to purchase

as I said, I tie the chock down with ratchet straps, and then secure the bike with ratchet straps. I can move the chock wherever I want and have no holes in the floor.

nayther wrote:

mayday wrote:
Yes there is a big allen bolt you can put in the floor which i used in my enclosed trailer it secures the chock to the floor. But i havent gotten one for my Toy hauler and it work just fine i just strap it to the d-rings.

You strap the bike to the D rings or the chock? Sorry but I've NEVER had a LARGE street bike, none the less hauled one in my TH. I've had enough trouble keeping my dirtbike from falling over (finally found out some of my tie downs were worn out!).

Sorry I strap the wheel dock to the D ring rings. Then I just strap my Heritage softtail in a X pattern over the seat to stop it from walking. I've towed it that way from South Dakota to Florida and back with no problems. On the wheeldock website there is a video on how to secure a bike while using it.

http://www.wheeldock.com/wheeldock_features_video.shtml

Hope this helps!

mayday wrote:
Yes there is a big allen bolt you can put in the floor which i used in my enclosed trailer it secures the chock to the floor. But i havent gotten one for my Toy hauler and it work just fine i just strap it to the d-rings.

You strap the bike to the D rings or the chock? Sorry but I've NEVER had a LARGE street bike, none the less hauled one in my TH. I've had enough trouble keeping my dirtbike from falling over (finally found out some of my tie downs were worn out!).