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Oops, repeat post

Ken in Oklahoma wrote:Steve D: The John Player RS has to be my favorite airhead in the whole wide world. My own '82RS is pretty damned nice but I'd cheat on it in a heartbeat!

I also like the John Player Norton a lot, but that's for another forum. (And another audience)

Ken

Oh no, not for another audience. I lusted after it desperately in my early teen years.

By the way, that 'rocking' Harbor Freight chock (the first of the two that I talked about earlier in this thread) is also very useful for a slightly different application. Those of us who have been around the Harbor Freight motorcycle lift know that the wheel vice supplied with it is a joke. I cringed when I first imagined myself clamping a front wheel in that thing and then went about trying to strap the bike to the lift.

What I did to avoid that scenario was to drill four 1/2" holes in the platform and bolt the Harbor Freight chock to it. Upon rolling the bike onto the lift the tire rolls over the over the small rocking ramp that is part of the chock. The bike is then stable enough that I can go about applying the ratcheting tie down straps that I had already made handy. I always use at least four tie downs.
Ken

My experience with the Canyon Dancer is the placement of the tie down points. I agree with you about the width of the bars. My RS is the same way, but I have found there are ways I can tie down my RS with the Canyon Dancer without rubbing the fairing. I usually place the front wheel at the very front of the trailer and this will keep the bike from rolling forward. I then will use the Canyon Dancer strap and use tie downs that are placed at the same relative position as the HANDLEBARS and not in a forward position. This method does not interfere with the fairing. Good Luck!!

khittner1 wrote:Yeah, Steve, that's a nice RS, but did one of your Norton or Harley buddies use the wheel dock just before you and leave that oil puddle?

Holed sump from road rubbish.

The two common mistakes that I have seen are trying to use any stand to hold a bike.

The other and fairly common is to allow the bike to be crooked and the forks twisted to one side in the corner of a truck. This will misalign the forks and make quite a job out of it.

Basically, the bike must ride in the truck just as it rides down the road, on its wheels and using the suspension. The bike was made to take forces in that manner.
It sounds like you aren't doing either, so good for you. This is for anyone not familiar with the procedure.