All those people saying you'll blow your fork seals don't understand how forks work. Fork oil is only under pressure when forks are moving. When stationary (regardless of travel) the spring is the only thing under pressure.
True, fork oil is only under pressure when forks are moving but compressing the fork increases the air/gas pressure on the seals. That's the point of pressurized forks.
No joke, any time I HAVEN'T said that, I've lost something out of my trucks bed or trailer. I've never lost anything if I say "That's not going anywhere."
@@damongoose Well that's just lame. If I'm risking my life riding through traffic, I want the best tool available to me, and that sure as hell isn't a cruiser. 25 years riding dirt and sportbikes here. Mostly I only ride at the track these days though; lost too many friends on the street, and there's a close call almost every time that I ride now, it feels like. Not to mention the stress of having to run from the cops lol.
It always amuses me that most of the motorcycle content creators on YT and TikTok are always ape-brain assholes about everything. Apparently simply owning a bike turns you in to a chode of a human being.
Ok. Boys and girls. DO NOT DO THIS. USE A CHEAP TRAILER. Hitches on these SUV's can only handle a few hundred LBS of "tongue weight" aka the weight that is pushing directly down on the hitch. For example, Ford Ranger's say only 200lbs of tongue weight, even though they can tow like 1500 lbs trailers. You will break the hitch doing this. Especially when you hit a little bump and the momentum of the bike causes the apparent weight on the hitch to double.
That 200lbs is on the bumper ball only and that is more for looks. A ranger with a hitch can tow up to 5.5k lbs in right configuration along with 500lbs in right combo with right hitch. But good point check weights on hitch, vehicle and of bike
Important step: be sure to check the manual of your trailer hitch to make sure it can handle the immense weight you're going to put on it, otherwise you risk tearing the entire hitch off of your car (have seen it happen)
@@kedanClipse be that as it may, dynamic loading is a very real possibility with this set up. Especially in a tubular hitch mount extended way past the rear suspension, hit a hard enough bump and the dynamic load forces can shear it right off. It's a 400lb bike on a 2.5 foot lever.
And this is why i have a pickup truck just load and go. I had my old man fabricate me some ramps that i can take apart and put together to make them really makes loading suuuuper easy
@@HapticzRotMG i think they are referring to the hitch. It's a long piece of metal extended past the rear suspension of the car. It's great when you are pulling load, but not so great when you are putting a load on top of it. Easiest way to think about it is imagine tying a string to your finger then tying it to a 1kg weight. You'd be able to pull it with no problems, but try holding the 1kg weight on the tip of your finger and you might struggle.
GMC Acadia is rated to tow 4,000 and 400 lbs of tongue weight. That bike weighs 440-460 plus carrier 60-90 lbs. TikTok experts gonna kill someone. If that bike breaks off and flips up into a cars windshield it'd be like hitting freaking moose.
@@jadsmvs8651 Yeah I know how leverage works. All im saying is if you think the people who made this product don't know this, then that is a whole separate issue. It has been tested and used in multiple capacities before sale or else it would not be a viable product. No??
Just make sure your vehicle can handle the tongue weight.... There's a calculator on google... Remember you don't have a trailer to help support the weight if the bike this way
That last part is key, especially if you learned how ratchet straps work that same day, and it's raining, and you have to go up a hill with a 60 degree incline. 😅
I've used one of these for four years now. The tongue weight is my hitch and the weight the carrier can handle are the same. I travel a lot for work. My bike weighs 504lbs with a full tank. Never had an issue
@spddemon143 oh, I'm sorry for bothering you. Thank you for your help! 💜 I'm used to being able to just call my dad up for help, he's been gone for 2 years now. Sorry, I honestly didn't think about the internet.
@@aisu8481 I've never seen this method of hauling a bike That heavy..maybe a minibike like one of those Coleman types would be fine on it but not something that weighs over a quarter of a ton! Dumb af!
I tried this when I moved from NY to TX. My CRV could not handle the weight. It was bottoming out and scraping the floor at every pothole. I ended up just selling the bike and getting a new one in TX.
instead of pulling on the end of the handlebars with those overgrown solo cups, you can get little soft loop things that are made of the same material as the ratchet straps that you can loop onto the handlebars closer to the triple clamp and then you hook onto this loop with the ratchet strap. doesnt scratch the paint, just as tough as the ratchet straps, and they are more easily stowed, i keep a pair in my bikes emergency toolbox in case i ever need it towed
And if you really want to do it right, soak your straps in water first. That way they won't stretch when it rains, and will actually snug a bit as they dry. Old kayaker's trick that I use whenever I haul any of my 4 motorcycles on an open trailer. And I never compress my suspension.
Smart man! Because sooner or later with this contraption, somebody's gonna pull you over to say you lost something and somebody else's attorney is gonna find you
You’re repping it for the short dudes bro..! Keep breaking down those barriers and showing the people what vertically challenged can actually achieve 🙌🙌😉
Pro tip from a lot tech: don’t compress the front too much!! When you hit bumps on the road you can blow your suspension by having it too tight. Make it snug and lightly compressed, as long as it’s tight, it ain’t going anywhere
The vehicle's suspension is already doing all the work. If you could blow the bike suspension by going over a bump on the road when it's on the back, you'd start questioning if the car needed new shocks. Just compress it enough to where the straps don't go loose at all when you jump on the pegs.
@@JpOcDenver the problem with letting the suspension do what it is supposed to while the bike is strapped down is that if the forks aren't compressed enough then a sufficient bump on the road will cause the forks to compress and the straps to loosen. I've had that happen while transporting my dirt bike enough times to learn. Admittedly the dirt bike has far more suspension travel and I'm taking it on some pretty average gravel and dirt roads, but it still holds true. The solution is to get a fork saver, or at the least a hunk of 4×2 and compress onto that.
Great demo. awesome job with the intro, the sequencing of information delivery, both audio and video. Love it. Do not trust that thing with your bike for more then a 200-300 mile trip without removing the entire assembly and visually inspecting ever weld, ever joint and every inch of the steel sections. The amount of movement from the section the tires are resting on is extremely worrying. I don't know how much it cost you but if that was built for street bikes I would treat it like a disposable investment because it's not going to last more then a few long trips. Those are built to support the weight of a dirt bike which is about half the weight of a street bike.
If you do the research, this is the 600lb version made for sportbikes - made in the USA and a good amount of people using this exact one. It’s been 2yrs, track days, panigale v4s, bmw s1000rr m package, rsv4, bmw recall trips to the dealer and no issues. I use this on my f150 too
If you have to tell someone your not something you usually are. Like a teenager saying they have a big wiener. Be more confident and you’ll never have to assure someone of your abilities or traits
I find it easier to start the bike and let it drive itself up the ramp so I don’t have to push. Although I always load up into the back of a truck which makes the ramps a little steeper.
I remember helping or at least watching my neighbors load up their dirt bikes in their enclosed trailer and they would use these plastic chucks they would put between both of the forks and it would be resting on top of the tires and they would ratchet them down and it basically made it more solid with out bottoming out the forks. Sorry I’m high rn
Used to do towing for a larger company and was the go-to motorcycle towing guy (and maybe the only one to tow a bicycle) and here's my 2¢ if you're doing this on your bike Don't need to crank all the way down on your forks, especially for long distance it's not a good idea. Don't need ratchet straps, just regular 1 inch cam straps are plenty. Pull the straps tight so the bike holds itself up on its own, check the angle to see if you have the bike not too far over to one side. Adjust until it's square and then compress the forks just a bit, pull the straps, and you're gtg. If you're using ratchet straps don't go nuts. I prefer handbar straps over this cup style if you have a bike that you can strap to each side of the fork just above the cross bar, these cups can fail over time, especially if you're towing frequently the plastic will crack in the sun. Even the best strapped motorcycle on a rollback tow truck feels super sketchy but it only takes 2 straps front to keep the bike up and from rolling and 1 in back at a minimum to be perfectly safe. 2&2 is how I prefer to do it, sometimes more is needed depending on the bike but 2&1 is all you can do sometimes.
Those straps that come off of the grips look like to me they should crisscross over the front tire to help keep them on the handlebars. Pulling straight down looks like an accident waiting to happen. Be safe brother have fun nice looking bike.
I’ve seen this done with an enduro on the front of a big pickup truck and the guy was driving along a bumpy off-road mountain pass. He had extra straps for support hooked to the roof of his over-cab camper. 💪🏼
Okay, it is very important to know a coulpe of things because this video is perfect for mounting and securing the bike into the hitch mounted bike carrier, but doesn't say a thing about that being secured to the hitch, to the truck/suv or about the security issues it can represent. First of all, if you are using an SUV to tow or hawl anything you absolutely have to stay under 60mph (80 if you are towing a jet sky with an Acadia/durango or similar big SUV). Second.- if your attatchment doesn't have wheels and tires touching the ground, you have to absolutely stay under 60mph no matter what. A bad crosswind and a bad reaction can become a lethal accident in less than 10 seconds. Third.- if your SUV can handle towing with up to 500 pounds of tounge weight, it is only when towing a trailer (it has wheels on the ground and it articulates on the towing ball). You must limit the weight of that bike and bike carrier to 1/2 the maximum tounge weight (500 pounds of max tounge weight is equivalent to 250 pounds of total weight between the bike and the bike carrier). Finally, you also want to secure the ends of the bike carrier to the ends of the hitch assembly using a ratcheting strap (the ones used to secure a load) so that it minimizes sway. Basically, those things are meant to be used in a pickup truck that doesn't have the bed space available but can handle that weight in the back... most 1/2 ton trucks won't be able to handle that at highway speeds. Handy, but it is a huge risk outside a city street
I had one of these to haul a dirtbike, it’s best to have tension pulling the bike left and right as well as forwards and backwards so it can’t move at all, took a left turn and the bike just rolled strait off the back onto the road 😂😂
I didn't know you are a Filipino, for the whole time I was wondering "Why do you look like you live in th Philippines??" You earned my sub as a Filipino😂😂😂.....
i have a mototote as well, but i find i like to walk my bike up wiht the motor running. Takes a bit of practice but i can roll my GS up the ramp while feathering the clutch and front brake with my other hand.
Thats awesome, i didnt know they made those specifically for bikes, my dad used to have something similar for his jeep that he and i would use to haul mowers and shit
I work first step is you. Make sure that hitch support is bolted very good. And make sure it can hold up to the edge of the tongue. All the way to the back where it flips ups and downs. Most of those hitches can only support around seven hundred pounds or less. The bike weighs more than half of that and with one speed bump.. You add more force. I've seen people load all kinds of crazy things though. And I haven't seen one fall off i've seen them bend.
You should make a part 2 with a review of how it’s worked out so far! I’m looking to get a class 4 hitch with 1000 TW and a motorcycle carrier with a 600lbs capacity for a 420lbs motorcycle. I’m worried about it snapping off because I may have to buy a 36” extension because how far under my hitch will be. The extension claims a 600lbs TW at 36” or 800 TW at 24” so I’ll probably cut it just to be safe but I’m still unsure and nervous because I want to travel with it for hundreds of miles at a time with it mounted.