Attaching a trials bike to a skid

 


Collecting ideas for attaching a trials bike to a skid. I have a plan but
I'm open to updating it. Has to be completed by 1pm tomorrow so if you have
a suggestion, don't hold back.

The plan.. high level...

Bars... wheels... forks are off.

Thinking of strapping the core of the bike down to screw eyes in a skid.
Strapping the rest of the crap off to the side.

thanks for any input.

Snoot


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Mike W.
96 XR400
70 CT70
71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
99 KZ1000P (training)
99 KZ1000P (rider)
00 Beta Rev-3

 

Mike,
Mike,
  When I got or shipped bikes, the front wheel would be off and the
axle would be in both fork legs and go through a block attached to the
top of the pallet/skid.
  The handlebars would be off (to make the bike narrow enough for a
economical and "productive for shipping" box size.  Instead, there
would be a 2"x2" board notched and attached to the top of the
handlebar mounts.
  I would put screws (with washers) through the outside of the box and
into the ends of the board.

  Attach two more wooden blocks to the top of the rear of the skid so
that one will be on each side of the rear wheel. Then, tie down the
rear wheel and maybe across the seat area and down to each side of the
skid.

  If you don't have a box covering it all, and don't need to remove
the handlebars because of width, I'd leave them on. Put the front
wheel along the side of the bike opposite the pipe and, after
restraining the bike at both ends by ropes or tie-downs to the skid,
wrap it all thoroughly in shrink wrap.

  Good Luck!

Jim
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Great minds...anyway, I realize that everyone calls it "shrink" wrap,
myself included, but most of the time we're using "stretch" wrap. As you
wrap the pallet, the film is stretched taut to hold everything in place,
like a cocoon.

--
Charles
'99 YZ250

"It's bad luck just SEEin' a thing like that..."

 

On 06/26/10 00:21, HardWorkingDog wrote:


When my son moved across the country (furniture etc. in a P.O.D.) he left his
books in their bookcases and just stretch-wrapped the whole unit.  First time
I'd ever seen the stuff.  Later on the Starving Students (yeah, right, the
youngest one was 30 and came from Belize, which is a lovely place with no jobs)
wrapped my mom's piano in it to move to my daughter's house.  They also wrapped
the nearly-full upright freezer.  Wonderful stuff.

They should have also wrapped the daughter's hysterical dachshund who was
intent on keeping the evil men from carrying off the furniture;  the dog isn't
too good with distinguishing in from out...

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Cheers, Bev
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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's
money."

 


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If you wrap it well, you can haul a couch through a hurricane on an
open trailer and not get it wet...
:)

If I were making my own shipping pallet/crate, I'd most likely do it
with the bike completely assembled unless compactness was a top
priority. At most I would remove the handle bars and twist them 90
degrees with cables still attached and wire in place. I'd build it
around this tiedown method... people.eku.edu/cornmand/db/tiedown.jpg,
but you will probably have to hook the chains to the footpegs on a
trials bike. For hooking in the frame, the eyebolts need to be 24"
wide, for the pegs... maybe as much as 30-34" which might make
removing the bars unnecessary even for a crate.

dsc