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General => Pics and Vids => Topic started by: Quinnlt4 on June 24, 2014, 11:52:17 PM
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I like pulling this group around.
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I'm glad you put that pic in & while looking, I probably need to give you & other members a little advice.
I'm not like jumping on you & this is more or less for every member reading this. The pics just made me remember my ordeal.
If that is how you normally strap those quads down, could be one you might one day lose them.
Now I'm just as guilty as anybody, did mine the same way few years ago, until.
Those straps tend not to last very long when something is allowed to rub on them & where you have them wrapped around the bumper, specially that black one, as your running down the road & the quads bouncing around, those bumpers are trying to cut into the webbing of that strap.
Those straps are pretty strong, but that is in a straight pull from one hook to the other.
For 6 quads, you need no less than 12 straps just to hold them in place, but like in a accident, a log chain might not be enough.
Just kinda saying, because I've been in an accident before & seen first hand how good those straps really are & its not a pretty site when you pry the bent up trailer doors open on an enclosed trailer & everything is balled up in one corner of the trailer from the straps snapping.
Cheap straps are just that, cheap, & it takes a good strong one to hold 3~450 lbs of quad in place.
On an open trailer, everything you can think of to keep the quads in place, you need to use, because if you lose one out on the highway, you've not only lost that prized quad, but it could take out a lot of other things as well as cause a huge accident & maybe loss of life.
Just this past Sunday coming home from NY race, exhaust pipe from the generator broke loose from the muffler & we just about lost it. Few miles back up the road we had stopped for a bit of gas & I noticed while looking around the end mount had broken loose & the pipe was hanging down, so I had on my old red neck thinking hat about that time & took a cloth hanger, wrapped it around the pipe kinda like replacing that mount. Well, that ol cloth hanger is what held the pipe in place when the pipe broke & dragging up under the motorhome & didnt let it fall completely off.
Good Lord was looking after it, made me think to put that cloth hanger on & no tell at the damage it could have caused if it had fallen off.
Neil
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I don't have any pictures of R's inside the trailer..
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Since I have more fun with Forest Service / Rangers when the R's are outside of the trailer :rofl:
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If that is how you normally strap those quads down, could be one you might one day lose them.
I'll second this - over the years, I've seen a few quads in or along side the road due to inadequate tie-down methods. When I had my open trailer, I think I put 2 tie-downs on the front and one on the rear. In my enclosed, each bike is strapped down in 4 places. It's worth the piece of mind for me (safety of myself, my bikes, and others).
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Not my R but I could get both my 350x in my short bed ford and close the tailgate.
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I will post pics soon, but I have my old Yamaha factory racing sticker on the back still. From racing banshee 'so back in the day, but all sponsor stickers are on the side and I need to add a few more before the trip.
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But with what Neil said about the straps is so true, I have had one of my banshee ' s come off because of the same issue but in the rear. So now I run ratchet straps and locked hooks, but I'm now haul in a enclosed trailer too.
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my truck tends to be over filled!!
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OK here is what is in my trailer(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/01/evybuty7.jpg)
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(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a349/SARON81/AA8AAA8C-1689-4793-A2A6-FDDC004906DF_zps7gidktmc.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/SARON81/media/AA8AAA8C-1689-4793-A2A6-FDDC004906DF_zps7gidktmc.jpg.html)
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Little Sahara trip...
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with all the extended swingers we pack them in so tight we don't need no stinkin straps!!!!
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Nice trikes, welcome to 250r.org.