RS-250 Shipping / Trailering / Transport / Tie down

[durkn]

I need to crate my RS-250 & ship it out of So Cal by ocean freight to get it home.
I want it to arrive in one piece. Sometimes the ships & barges can be rough.

How are you guys tying your RS-250's down?

Are you using Cycle Cynch (or canyon dancer) bar harness tie downs?
They look like the straps will run across the tank, & the bike will show up with paint worn off.

Are you tying off around the triple clamps?
Using wheel chocks?
Tying the back off too?

Anybody have a Motocrate they want to get rid of?

[smokey_rs250]

Go to a shop and get a steel motorcycle crate which they use to deliver the bikes from the factory, they throw them away when the bike is at the shop. I got one for two 6 packs (for free but I gave the guys some anyway) Instead of the cardboard cover make a 9 mm plywood one (be carefull to use export stuff as you might run in to trouble using normal un certified) and you're done. I did this when shipping my boke from OZ to Holland

below the crate with bike and lots more (2 sets of spare farings, spare pipes, boxes with parts, airbox, set of extra wheels, and much more) minus the cover

I threw away the crate 3 months ago.

[Vzp]

i bought my bike from the uk, i live in Portugal.

the shipping company did the box and everything, door to door with crating service.

was good and the bike didnt move one inch, over wood pallets, and normal plastic tie downs everything in the box was wood and the bike was assembled and ready to run.

just needed to be taken out of the box, plug the battery wires and kickstart.

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how ever i would do things different... i had to service my rearshock, and the forks now are in need.... all because in order to have such a tight grab the bike had both suspension systems compressed for a long time with a bumpy way...

if you find the metal structure like smokey, just lock the wheels, and tie the frame to each side, horizontally or to the top bars of the box frame (done it inside a landrover driving with tight corners...didnt flinch)

smokey nice hint to get excelent crates!

[durkn]

I will probably use one of those, or a wood BMW crate, from a dealer close by.

I plan to keep the bike complete, & tie down with a cycle cynch on the bars.
Hopefully the crate will have a wheel chock.

Have you used a cycle cynch on an RS-250?
It looks like the strap will run over the tank - & wear the paint off the tank by the time it gets here.

[Marcusredmonkey]

I would get the BMW wood crate. Those bikes never move an inch and they come over by cargo ship. Just ask them and get the white connectors and just reassemble the box and then crate strap it.

[durkn]

My buddy picked up a BMW wood crate.
I don't know what it looks like yet - I should get a photo within a couple days.
What are the white connectors? Connectors to reassemble the box?

I got a Cycle Cynch II for tie down. Hopefully it will work without rubbing on the tank.