Drilling through front of floorbed

I find the upper bodywork inlays and the plastic air deflector below the lower triple mount makes it impossible to use the straps unless you start removing things. Sort of annoying.

My solution would make it so easy!

 

Have you tried crossing the straps? On some bikes that helps, and I can't remember for sure if I do it on the 848.
A lot depends on how wide/high your tie down points are too.

 

I wouldn't mount the chocks. Just place them down, put bike in them, tie bike down. Those chocks aren't going anywhere and when you get back from riding, the chocks just lift out. I don't even mount the chock on my trailer with a 945 lb Harley. Trailered it thousands of miles with no trouble.

 

I use one of USRacks solutions:

https://www.usrack.com/responsive/motorcycle-truck-racks.php



I've only used it for dirt bikes though. I suppose it would work the same with a street bike, providing you can figure out where to put soft ties on the bike.

 

Street and dirt have different front wheel widths that cause headaches with systems like that. The pit bull solution posted earlier is the nicest way to go. I am actually going to fab something up for dirt that is much more simple. These bar ideas are nice but you can't use a cover ever if you have them. At least from all my research I have done.

 

I can't speak for the other mounts. Certainly a semi-permanent fixture to roll the motorcycle on and essentially snap in would be the most convenient.

Just some info on the above wheel bar:

The usrack variant has adjustable front wheel 'grips'. I just leave one grip about six inches wide which gives some flexibility in tire size & bike positioning.

You wouldn't be able to have a top on at the same time. However removing the bar only takes a minute (literally). It's held to the bed via two clamps on either side of the bed.

The biggest benefit is convenience of transporting multiple bikes. You don't have to crisscross tie downs through front wheels when hauling 2+ bikes & using the factory anchor rings.


The biggest drawback to any of these systems is that you loose bed length. The USRack, you loose ~1.5" inches. For short beds, you don't want to push your rear wheel any further out than necessary.

 

I hate you guys... I miss racing my little SV650 with CCS, & CMRA... : ... (

 

When did you race with the CMRA? I did (mostly on an SV650) from 1998-2010

 

I raced with CMRA only twice. Once at Texas World, & once at Hallett. 2010, & 2012 I believe. Never full time, just when I has the time & money.

 

Maybe I will just throw the chock in and not perma- mount it then. I am pretty damn sold on reinforcing the tailgate ala:



and then attaching the pitbull secure mount to the tailgate since it is a short bed.

This is how the bike looked in my brother's truck:

 

Ah, ok. There were a couple of KC guys who used to race the CMRA much of the same time I did, was wondering if you were one of them.

 

I probably know them.

 

Now I remember why I bought a trailer lol

 

How would this work in a 16? The bed design would prevent this system from what I can see in the install instructions.

 

Just a thought, don't know if it would work but maybe you can get a length of steel fabbed up to go all the way up front and mount into the existing bed bolts. Then you could secure the chocks to the steel. You could remove the whole setup easily when you need to and not alter the bed.

 

It might not. The rack clamps under the lip of the bed on either side. If something is blocking the lip it would need to be cut away. The bottom piece of the clamp (a U shaped piece) is about 2" wide.

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From looking at photos of 2016 beds, I don't think this rack would work at all unless you removed the inner rails & cut some of the composite away.

I think a better solution would to install an anchor w/ D-ring in the center of the front of the bed. It would likely need some backing to reinforce it. I suppose you could install it on the floor if you wanted to, but on the front wall would make it more accessible.

That way you could easily latch the tie down to that & use the existing corner anchor points for the other side of the bike. This would make it easy to carry two bikes while retaining the full bed length.

The indents in the front of the bed look suitable enough to keep the front wheel from sliding around.