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RE: Trex Crash Bars
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I don't know, specialist. If it blew over while it was on the kick stand, I would have thought it would either have to have rolled forward so the stand flipped up or the wind was so strong it picked the bike up first. Was it in gear? I suspect it would be harder to move the bike forward if it were on the centre stand, but I'd also worry that it might blow it over to the right where there's nothing but the vertical leg.

When I've taken my bike on a vehicular ferry that travels over pretty rough water, they make you leave it in 1st gear on the kick stand. They then have a webbing strap that had loops that go over the hand grips. They anchor it on both sides, but pull it down to the left so there's a bit of load on the suspension.

That seems to me a pretty secure way to hold the bike, although if you could lash it down on the centre stand the way people do on trailers, that ought to hold it.

It's bloody windy if it blew the bike over on the stand.


05-23-2017, 09:11 AM
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Trex Crash Bars - by Rasher_of_bacon_imp - 11-10-2016, 10:26 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by the Ferret - 11-10-2016, 10:51 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Rasher_of_bacon_imp - 11-10-2016, 11:05 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-10-2016, 11:26 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Lord Popgun - 11-10-2016, 08:50 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Rocky_imp - 11-10-2016, 11:14 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Gumby 1100_imp - 11-11-2016, 01:37 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Rocky_imp - 11-11-2016, 02:32 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by AzBob_imp - 11-11-2016, 04:07 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-11-2016, 05:53 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Django - 11-11-2016, 06:28 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by LongRanger_imp - 11-11-2016, 07:07 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-11-2016, 11:24 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Rebel73_imp - 11-14-2016, 07:47 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by dsinned_imp - 11-14-2016, 03:21 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Blockhead_imp - 11-15-2016, 06:48 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Lord Popgun - 11-15-2016, 08:17 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-15-2016, 09:34 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by AzBob_imp - 11-16-2016, 04:21 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Rasher_of_bacon_imp - 11-18-2016, 04:59 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by LikeAfox_imp - 11-19-2016, 11:03 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-19-2016, 04:10 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by kballowe_imp - 11-19-2016, 10:37 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Ulvetanna_imp - 11-20-2016, 12:10 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Cormanus - 11-20-2016, 08:11 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by kballowe_imp - 11-20-2016, 09:06 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Cormanus - 11-20-2016, 09:47 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by dsinned_imp - 11-20-2016, 11:21 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by kballowe_imp - 12-03-2016, 10:53 PM
Trex Crash Bars - by kennyw - 12-04-2016, 03:56 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Flynrider_imp - 12-04-2016, 08:37 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-23-2017, 12:49 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Cormanus - 05-23-2017, 08:48 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-23-2017, 08:59 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Cormanus - 05-23-2017, 09:11 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-23-2017, 02:45 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by Cormanus - 05-23-2017, 03:04 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by kennyw - 05-23-2017, 10:55 PM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-24-2017, 05:07 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by NightRider_imp - 05-25-2017, 04:24 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-25-2017, 04:29 AM
RE: Trex Crash Bars - by specialist8_imp - 05-27-2017, 03:46 AM
Trex Crash Bars - by chync_imp - 05-31-2017, 06:52 AM

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