The proper way to trailer a bike

Post by **Beemer Dan** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:47 pm

Loud cruiser?

CHECK!

Shorts and sneakers?

CHECK!

Truck with ramp?

CHECK!

Video camera?

CHECK!

Friends to laugh at you?

CHECK!

ALL SYSTEMS GO:

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Ames · Post by **Ames** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:44 pm

I find their lack of proper gear appalling.

Were there...cans dragging behind the bike in the first video?

The Shifty Jesus · Post by **The Shifty Jesus** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:55 pm

If only I had video of Back Door Barbie loading a bike to counter this:
Her, a handful of tiedowns, and the words "just steady the back end so it doesn't fall over"

It was quite rad.

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:16 am

I can't even begin to count how many times I have successfully done precisely what these people are failing at doing. Maybe it's because I'm not doing it with a 1200 pound cruiser or something, but I never found it that difficult.

Of course, that being said, I will probably fucking fail at it the next time I try it, just because I've now said it.

Flat_Black_Rat · Post by **Flat_Black_Rat** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:17 am

These videos reinforce why I do not ride bikes into the bed anymore. Countless times without issues, but even years latter I will not push the luck any further...

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:05 am

Makes me want to ride mine up onto my tilting workbench.

*burrrp* Hey, watch this!

Pattio · Post by **Pattio** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:08 am

Seems like one of the unifying themes of these ramp fail videos is that there are always enough people just standing around that they could have done it safely.

wafs you and I have a significant advantage in being tall. I suppose its also to my advantage that I was once one of the spectators to a stupid ramp fail, years before I had my own pickup. And before everyone carried their own video cameras around.

Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:01 am

I think the first guy would have made it, except for the fact that the bike had insufficient clearance to make the ramp-bed transition (not to say it was an 'accident', still dumb and needless). The second guy failed to operate his clutch properly, so I think that merits the most fail.

MagnusTheBuilder · Post by **MagnusTheBuilder** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:16 am

I didn't know ramps were necessary. You guys don't just pick your cruiser up and set it in the back of your truck? Weird.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:58 am

Toonce wrote:I think the first guy would have made it, except for the fact that the bike had insufficient clearance to make the ramp-bed transition (not to say it was an 'accident', still dumb and needless). The second guy failed to operate his clutch properly, so I think that merits the most fail.

The fail, here, happened when both of them decided that loading their respective bike on a truck was something for the group to behold, an occasion worthy of being documented for posterity.

thrasherbill · Post by **thrasherbill** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:02 pm

It's not just the cruiser crowd!

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rolly · Post by **rolly** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:15 pm

I know someone who took out the rear windows of his brand new truck when he tried to load his sled in similar fashion. Put his skidoo right throo.

thrasherbill · Post by **thrasherbill** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:25 pm

rolly wrote:Put his skidoo right throo.

SSCAM · Post by **SSCAM** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:41 pm

Time for this again?

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Rabbit_Fighter · Post by **Rabbit_Fighter** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:17 pm

Jetskis can fail too.

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calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:34 pm

Rabbit_Fighter wrote:Jetskis can fail too.

I love that the woman just keeps on laughing harder and harder.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:25 am

I've somehow managed to load Harley's, dirtbikes and the ST3 into the back of my now departed lifted Ram 4x4, and not dropped them. Ridden, I mean, not pushed. Once, back when I had a 2wd truck and lifted weights with some regularity, I manhandled my old ironhead Sportster into the bed by lifting the front wheel onto the tailgate, then picking the rear-end up onto my thigh and heaving the rest of the way up. If fell on its side once it was in the bed because it of course had no way to balance, but it got in there. I wish I was still that strong.

stiles · Post by **stiles** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:26 pm

This is why you use two ramps, and walk the bike up one in first gear with a little gas while walking up the other yourself. Riding it up invites problems, and the extra weight on the seat reduces ground clearance.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:21 pm

Who forgot their clever pills?

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FastCat · Post by **FastCat** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:15 pm

Here is the *right* way to load a bike:

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dozer · Post by **dozer** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:40 pm

fastcat with the checkered flag

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:50 pm

I've been here long enough to remember a video of someone loading a dirtbik on (or off?) the bavk of a pick up truck with his bare hands.

but I've been here long enough to be unable to remember if it really was one of you and who it was.

Ames · Post by **Ames** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:42 pm

Nice ramp. Would that we could all have one.

Mean Chuck · Post by **Mean Chuck** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:49 pm

I wonder how many people on here have taken the back seat out of a car, stuffed it in the trunk and then took just enough parts off the bike to stuff it in the back seat area of a small four-door?

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:29 pm

I bought an old Dodge Caravan, pitched the seats as soon as I got it home. The deck is about a foot and a half off the ground, super easy to load my bike in there with about a six foot 2x12 board.

Those with apehangers need not apply.

SSCAM · Post by **SSCAM** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:47 pm

Mean Chuck wrote:I wonder how many people on here have taken the back seat out of a car, stuffed it in the trunk and then took just enough parts off the bike to stuff it in the back seat area of a small four-door?

Two that I can think of

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:20 pm

Fastcat, you just need a little electric winch inside the van to pull the bike in for you, and you're set.

In other news, I had a near moment UNloading my KLX after some dirty dirt riding today. Somehow, one of the loading straps had flapped itself into a knot around the kickstand. I didn't see it, and it brought me to a dead stop, halfway down the ramp. When I unload, I typically just sit on the bike, and let gravity do the work, because riding motorcycles backwards is fun.
Fortunately the near incident was in my driveway, which is on a slight incline, making the ramp much less steep than if I were going to flat ground.

Had I been going to flat ground, that might have been a little bit more uncomfortable an outcome.

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The proper way to trailer a bike

The proper way to trailer a bike