LOADING TIP
I'm sure that I am the only person who didn't know this, but just in case there is another out there without this knoweldge here goes.
After loading your bike while tieing down tilt your bike to the side, then pull down on your tie downs. I always tried to pull straight down and muscle it....unsucessfully I might add. Trying to decompress the shocks with the tie downs is very difficult and unnecessary. One hand to tilt the bike to the side while pulling the tie down will decompress the shock and get your bike on there nice and tight. Oh and 1 more lesson learned in yesterdays unfortunate incident is to notice what you are attaching the hook of the tie down to. There was a metal ring attached to the hole in the trailer that you hook the tie down to. That ring was not pulled up, I attached the tie down while the ring was in a downward position and once the bike pulls on it, it flips up thus creating slack thus...well...read it for yourself. It was horrible.
This is my husbands version of what happened, he is soliciting the owner of the website that he visits (there is a garage feature and you are allowed to rate the bikes and mine is one of the top rated) to Take off points because the bike does not look the same as in the picture (hey, it can be fixed!)
He says....Hey Ken...Can we take off some of progirlz points?
She needs to be punished.
First, she goes riding this afternoon with a girlfriend of hers. They both did fine and rode great and had a good time.
They loaded up the bikes and headed home. Halfway up the road Progirlz's bike comes off the trailer and gets dragged behind until they noticed. Scraped up the front fender and ground down one of the Cycra handguards.
Second, she goes riding with me tonight. I whooped her on the way up and so she decides to pay me back on the way down. She passes me, and I'm thinking to myself, "It's getting kinda dark to be riding that fast but oh well she knows what shes doing."
As I come around the corner I see a cloud of dust and poor Progirlz stumbling around the poor mistreated bike lying in a pool of it's own gasoline.
I quickly jumped off my bike and ran to the aid of that poor bike. I think it'll be OK but it sure isn't as pretty as it once was...
I'm sure that I am the only person who didn't know this, but just in case there is another out there without this knoweldge here goes.
After loading your bike while tieing down tilt your bike to the side, then pull down on your tie downs. I always tried to pull straight down and muscle it....unsucessfully I might add. Trying to decompress the shocks with the tie downs is very difficult and unnecessary. One hand to tilt the bike to the side while pulling the tie down will decompress the shock and get your bike on there nice and tight. Oh and 1 more lesson learned in yesterdays unfortunate incident is to notice what you are attaching the hook of the tie down to. There was a metal ring attached to the hole in the trailer that you hook the tie down to. That ring was not pulled up, I attached the tie down while the ring was in a downward position and once the bike pulls on it, it flips up thus creating slack thus...well...read it for yourself. It was horrible.
This is my husbands version of what happened, he is soliciting the owner of the website that he visits (there is a garage feature and you are allowed to rate the bikes and mine is one of the top rated) to Take off points because the bike does not look the same as in the picture (hey, it can be fixed!)
He says....Hey Ken...Can we take off some of progirlz points?
She needs to be punished.
First, she goes riding this afternoon with a girlfriend of hers. They both did fine and rode great and had a good time.
They loaded up the bikes and headed home. Halfway up the road Progirlz's bike comes off the trailer and gets dragged behind until they noticed. Scraped up the front fender and ground down one of the Cycra handguards.
Second, she goes riding with me tonight. I whooped her on the way up and so she decides to pay me back on the way down. She passes me, and I'm thinking to myself, "It's getting kinda dark to be riding that fast but oh well she knows what shes doing."
As I come around the corner I see a cloud of dust and poor Progirlz stumbling around the poor mistreated bike lying in a pool of it's own gasoline.
I quickly jumped off my bike and ran to the aid of that poor bike. I think it'll be OK but it sure isn't as pretty as it once was...
