im gonna get a non running bike and am going to borrow a friends 4x8 utility trailer but it doesnt have sides on it just a flat deck. how should i go about strapping it down? its gona be a fairly long trip too about 60 miles.
Is buddy cool with 4 holes drilled in the deck? 4 eyebolts unless you can find something that will grab the edge of the deck to anchor the straps to.
4 corners as others have said. Tie from the highest (solid) part you can on the bike (ie: handlebars, grab rail). I say this, although it may be obvious to some, it's not to others. I watched a bunch of guys strapping their Harleys down on a ferry a couple of years ago and tying to the lower frame rails and crash bars...might have just as well used bungie cords.
4 corners to h bars (or lower T clamp) and rear frame (or sub frame) with the suspension compressed when cinched down. No need for a wheel chock. Just make sure the anchor points for the straps are solid to the trailer frame. Those pot metal eye bolts snap off.
Yup. It's probably a plywood-topped Harbor Freight trailer, so it's easy to screw into Note drywall screws are NOT meant to be loadbearing.
