Finally bought a van that will mostly be used for taking 2 bikes to trackdays, but wanting to kit it out with 2 front wheel stands like: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-MOTO...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 So I have a 12mm plywood floor and 2 of these. Wondering if anyone has any experience tips for mounting them? Whilst they will stay in most of the time I do want to be able to take them out easily if I need to get something big in the back. Ive got ideas but looking to see if I’m missing something obvious and there’s a better way.
You can either lift your liner and add fasteners or make a drop in board. In either instance you can secure the wheel stands through the ply with T nuts. https://www.westfieldfasteners.co.u...MIx7_ph96U7gIVk77tCh1jVQphEAQYBCABEgJ-X_D_BwE I went with a drop in board in my T5. It had 2 wheel chocks fitted along with a few sections of load securing track for lashing any other odds and sods down. https://www.uscargocontrol.com/shop/Enclosed-Trailer-Accessories/Airline-Straps-Hardware
I bought this a couple of weeks ago with similar objectives. I figure the fly-away track days in Spain, Portugal & Italy may be some way off, so got Assen, Le Mans & Spa booked in by road. Two bikes, workshop, catering to start. Side awning with sides and floor for the bikes to be fitted. Electrical hook up, lighting, tyre warmers and something to keep the beers chilled.
mate ive had my bike in my van with a wheel chock and i just put it on the floor and tie the bike down with 2 ratchet straps and thats it, no need to bolt the chock down
Thanks mate, don’t suppose you have any photos do you?! Ah ok, do you go from the back of the bike forwards to pull the bike and chock up to the bulkhead? Or go over the bike?
chock against the bulk head and strap either side of the frame to the middle tie down holes. Sometimes i put one though the rear wheel just in case
Its nicer when they are fastened down and you come to unload the bike after loading it with a hot soft front tyre.
it varies depending on how much I can be bothered and how successful the race meeting was haha generally speaking and depending on the bike but I butt up the chock to the bulkhead and either strap the handle bars or Triple clamps forward. If the meeting didn’t go so well, I unravelled a few bin bags and scooped it in to those. on the gixxer I just throw it in the chock and run a strap to each sides pillion footrest to the front eyelets near the bulkhead. I drive like an absolute whopper and it’s not come out the back yet
Round your rear sets. I use these front wheel chocks too. Super stable and like Advikaz, I don’t bolt them down. But here’s a thing, if you load your bike and the front tyre is still warm, the rubber sticks super well to the chock. And you’ll need leverage to break the fucker out. I use a breaker bar to crack it away.
In that case you put your foot on the chock and give the bike a yank back on the bars, breaking the molten rubber off the chock.
Absolutely this. It also shags your tyres. Luckily I’m cheap since I stopped racing and often run tyres that are battered even before they go on I did get the gixxer stuck in my chock a few Doningtons ago. It was pissing down at home and late. I was tired and honestly was at the point of considering sidestepping the vans clutch in 1st and sending the thing out the back. No lies.
Check the edges of the chock before you use it. I bought a Motolug trailer in the summer which has one, but the lazy buggers hadn't bothered to finish it off after it came out of the casting and the bloody thing was like some sort of mediaeval weapon with sharp edges everywhere. Unfortunately the first time I loaded a bike, the wheel crossed up slightly and fouled the chock which sliced a triangular shaped cut in the tyre. The miserable and argumentative woman you deal with there at Motolug was also very unhelpful and unnecessarily defensive about the whole thing too.
And what set up you have. They’re all different. There’s nowhere to get a boot on my wheel chock. And believe me, with all the confidence in the world, it ain’t coming out with a yank on the bars....
I often wind Dave up. He’s got one of those fancy no more strap systems. I’m pretty confident that I could be back at home with my finger in the missus in the time it takes to rig that thing up.
I never bolted the chock down either Joe here is the biggest bike I've moved on its way to be traded for a Ktm sdr but collected bikes all over the UK and Ireland and none ever budged
