Joining the discussion a bit late, but in case it helps. This setup worked for a European trip to Belgium and France. I did find the straps worked loose a bit, and just had to check them each time I stopped. For most of the trip I had a mate’s bike on the trailer too which helped balance things a bit and add a bit more weight. The front wheel clamp on this trailer helps a lot however, and so this strapping might not work without a similar front wheel clamp. Hope this helps.
I've always just used a couple of straps around the fork tops to the front corners of a van's loading bay hooks. If you see secondary straps in these pictures, it's because someone else did it whilst helping me . Pulling the bikes front wheel into the bulkhead (usually straight on, but sometimes on lock) and compressing the suspension slightly. I only give the straps a couple of clicks past where they become taught, not yarking them down. I had a friend blow a seal on the Ohlins of an Aprilia RSV after pulling the thing down to the floor. I use microbibre cloths to protect paintwork on anything that's rubbing, and if a strap is seriously pushing against a panel, I'll relocate it (as shown on the Desmo, where I went around the bar). I've never had a bike go walkies yet and I've done this from one side of the country to the other. I always recheck 5 mins after setting off though for piece of mind.
Edit: Pic deleted I am so sorry. I thought this was the Show Me Your Missus etc Strapped To A Trailer thread. My apologies.
Have you tried the bar end ones? They make it so much easier ime, and you don’t have to compress suspension hardly at all really so less stress on everything
I remember a RC30 on an open trailer getting wiped out by another car, going into the Blackwall tunnel a few years back. The trailer driver was dragging it along the ground for a while.
Back in january 1998 i went to Carnells in birmingham to collect a new motorcycle the old fashion way with a mattress on lhs in a up right position with the bike leaning slighty with a couple of soft furniture straps and one wooden wedge/scaffold plankHappy days
Yikes... The other problem with open trailers is security whilst parked... we risked an underground car park one night and got away with it, but it wasn’t a restful night...
Those small combo ones with front seat out and at an angle. Probably lol I know a few people who put them in people carriers
