How do you secure your motorcycles inside your toyhauler?

[Brisk]

We just bought our first toyhauler a couple of months ago. We are planning our first trip with the bikes in a few weeks and I was wondering how to tie the motorcycles down securely. Our rig does not have a separate garage so there is no forward wall to secure the bikes against. I would prefer to not tie them to the side walls to avoid tire marks.

I Really like the Bolt It On rack but $350+ is more than I want to spend Here

How do you guys secure your bikes in the back of your trailers? Have you built a similar system to the bolt it on? Pictures would be ideal.

Thanks in advance!

[RickSo]

I use these to secure my bikes. They work very well. I also installed L-track on the floor to hold down the Smart Car with wheel tie downs.

[1L243]

When I was deciding what system to use I felt the Biker Bar would cause a problem with ground clearance when loading in my Toy Hauler.

Biker Bar is strapless but I think I would still use at least two straps to pull forward into the lock, but that's just me...

I ended up going with the Condor...

Biker Bar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKc_w0R9_I

Condor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgYFYrEk_E

[Dirtclods]

Strabo wrote:
There isnt a "Beats All" way to do this, ive tried everyway i can think of.

Last trip our Rhino lost one ratchet strap, but somehow stayed in place in the hauler, and ive been doing this for years....

See, i havent learned anything. 😉

Sorry to hear you lost a strap

I only use these http://www.harborfreight.com/over-the-wheel-tie-down-bonnet-97230.html

[Bill1374]

Currently using the Harbor Freight chock coupled with tie downs front and rear. HArley makes a nice tie down bracket for the front forks that simplifies that point. Loop the rear wheel to keep it from shifting.
If I decide to stay with the tow hauler though, I'll be switching to the Biker Bar.

[roadking59]

B&W Biker Bar ... Will install soon.

[Strabo]

There isnt a "Beats All" way to do this, ive tried everyway i can think of.

Last trip our Rhino lost one ratchet strap, but somehow stayed in place in the hauler, and ive been doing this for years....

See, i havent learned anything. 😉

[Dirtclods]

I place the bike in gear. Use two tie downs on the top of the handle bars to the floor so if you we're looking at the top of my bike as a clock being 12 my ties would be at 1 and 2. Then I tie down both foot pegs. Then I run another tie rapped around the rear wheel to the floor. I also place a knot in my tie downs just in case one does not hold. I have very large carabiners on both ends of my tie downs that way they won't come unhooked. If I have two bikes side to side I run a tie down in-between both handle bars.

[cutty72]

two tie downs in the front, two in the rear.

[arhayes]

For our Goldwing I use a moveable chock that I bolt down using the bolts into the frame for the front center tie down ring. I the use 2 cinching chicks to compress and secure the front forks, and 2 to tie down the back the the tie down rings- the bike is rock solid and does not move or wiggle at all.

[Blackdiamond]

Easiest way and you don't have to spend any $$$$ is....tie down the front just like you would in the bed of a pickup, without the front wheel touching anything, then take 1 tie down to a foot peg and tie it down to a tie down point backward and pull to put pressure moving the bike rearward a little bit. I did this for many years, many bikes, works.

[1L243]

My Toy Hauler is setup to carry two Harleys (although I usually only carry one). I use ride in Condor Chocks. I have used a Harbor Freight Chock like the above and for the money that is a pretty good deal. I went with condor because it's quality and the locking bracket that secures the chock to the floor makes the chock removable. You will want to stagger the chocks brackets.

I have three sections of Etrac that run down the sides and middle of the floor. Carpet over the Etrac can be left in or taken in and out. I cut the carpet around the condor brackets...

For heavy street bikes I would double strap the front. For the rear I just cross strap by going through the rear wheel (it's just to keep the bike from shifting..


By hauling the bike to one side I can still use one of the rear couches and part the garage when the bike is in transport..


PS. You don't want to carry your bikes with kick stand down..Can damage floor and hard on the bike too..

[jrp]

I also need some flexibility. I go from hauling just the Harley, to the Harley and the KTM dirt bike, to 2 full size ATV's or one of each. The Harley always goes in the fixed Condor chock, the KTM uses a moveable chock like above, the ATV's use moveable D rings in E-Track mounted along the sides of my garage floor.

[Brisk]

I should say that I don't always haul the same load. Sometimes it is 1 bike and a couple quads. Sometimes 6 bikes. flexibility is key

[09KZMXT266]

I use a $69 Harbor Freight t-shaped chock place on a rubber mat, so it won't slide around on the floor. I use ratchet straps around the fork tubes/fender bolts (2 sets) one tied to the D-rings and one tied to the chock. I run another set up straps from the rear crash bars to the rear D-rings. My 950# Harley has never moved an inch.

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