Any body use a dirt bike shoe on their trailer to haul their bike. Can you really use them without straps? Looks good to me, easy to use and not bad for the suspension. Give me your thoughts.
Dirt bike shoe
Started by
budpat105
, Jun 20 2012 12:12 PM
19 replies to this topic
Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:28 PM
Think he is talking about those wheel chalk things...I prefer tie downs.
Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:35 PM
Its funny in the ad for that stand it says it takes a TREMENDOUS load off your fork seals.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 01:38 AM
here is what i was looking at- http://www.discountr...-wheel-shoe.htm
Posted 21 June 2012 - 04:23 AM
The lock & load is where its at. No more tie down straps is a great thing!
Posted 21 June 2012 - 05:02 AM
budpat105, on 20 June 2012 - 12:12 PM, said:
Any body use a dirt bike shoe on their trailer to haul their bike. Can you really use them without straps? Looks good to me, easy to use and not bad for the suspension. Give me your thoughts.
I have heard that they are hard on your wheel bearings when hauling.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 05:05 AM
Bonestock07, on 21 June 2012 - 04:23 AM, said:
The lock & load is where its at. No more tie down straps is a great thing!
I have been wanting this system for sometime now. A great product by Risk Racing. I just haven't figured a way to put a set of these inside my van yet. I didn't really want to drill holes through the cargo area of the floor.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 06:16 AM
I have 3 of them in my enclosed trailer, no you dont need to use tiedowns, loading is simple and quick and I've never had a bike fall over but... I dont like them very much. I feel it is hard on wheel bearings, the whole bike rocks back and forth while the front wheel is solid.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 06:40 AM
My neighbor has a trailer with 3 of those on it. Makes loading and unloading a breeze. We still tie down the back of the bikes. I don't see how this can be any worse on the bearings than riding?!
Posted 21 June 2012 - 09:11 AM
budpat105, on 21 June 2012 - 01:38 AM, said:
here is what i was looking at- http://www.discountr...-wheel-shoe.htm
I wouldn't be comfortable using that without tie downs.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 12:42 PM
CaptainKnobby, on 21 June 2012 - 05:05 AM, said:
I have been wanting this system for sometime now. A great product by Risk Racing. I just haven't figured a way to put a set of these inside my van yet. I didn't really want to drill holes through the cargo area of the floor.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 01:34 PM
strapless is the way to go. i made something very similar to this http://www.ivieracing.com/index.html mine is a lil more low tech but still get s the job done and i will never go back to using tie downs.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 02:07 PM
juliend, on 21 June 2012 - 06:40 AM, said:
My neighbor has a trailer with 3 of those on it. Makes loading and unloading a breeze. We still tie down the back of the bikes. I don't see how this can be any worse on the bearings than riding?!
I think it is just sarcasm towards the whole "use a fork brace to save your seals" BS. Well, at least I hope they are since there is no way it could be harder on the wheel bearing than what they see on the trail or MX track.
Posted 24 June 2012 - 06:36 PM
I have two of them in the back of my pick up,I think they are great but I do put one strap on each bike,only takes a second to do.
