Make sure that the straps stay off the plastics and that you don't have any excess strapping flapping around in the wind.
Transporting a Busa in a P/U truck?
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I picked up my gen2 with an Explorer Sporttrac. FYI, it has a 4' bed. With the tail gate down, I had the rear axle about 1" from dropping off the truck. It fit straight in, no fender rub. BTW, when undoing the ratcheting straps, be sure to have your kickstand down then undo the strap on the right side of the bike, so the opposite side strap doesn't pull the bike over. Also when unloading, I like to back up with my rear tires in the lowest spot where the street meets the driveway. It cuts down the ramp angle a lot, which is a good thing for a fat pig busa. Lastly, new bike brakes aren't bedded in yet, so don't expect them to stop the bike once it starts rolling down the ramps. My 10r and Busa brakes merely slowed the descent when I brought them home.
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What this guy said!
There have been some pictures around where people used Canyon Dancers alone and ended up with broken clip-ons. I have the Canyon Dancer II, but have only used it once. I didn't like how much downward pressure you had to put on the bars in order to stabilize the bike. Also, if you used the Canyon Dancer II specifically, you may want to put a rag over each of the bar ends to keep the plastic cups from scratching them. This could be used as a supplemental restraint, but I would never again use them as the primary tie-down for a bike with clip-on style bars. The best method IMHO is to put the front wheel in a chock and run a strap on each side from the passenger pegs to the front corners of the truck bed. This method stabilizes the bike from side to side and holds it against the front of the bed. I wouldn't try this method without a chock though. If you did that and the front wheel shifted, you could have some problems. Also, this way makes it very easy to load and secure the bike by yourself. You can roll it into the chock and tie it down from there, with nobody else needed to hold it up while you tighten the straps.
On a related note, be sure to give your tailgate cables a good once-over before you trust them with the weight of a Busa. Macon454 knows what I'm talkin' about here. He had a cable failure which caused the rear end of the bike to fall and land the header on the end of the truck bed. Luckily, he was still running the stock exhaust which held up to the impact. Good luck doing that with lighter, thinner aftermarket pipes.
I have heard that many times and always strap my Husky down tight, never had leaking seals.
Looking at how a fork works, the valving and the oil flow, why would strapping down tight blow seals?
Wouldn't it be the velocity of compression rather than the depth that would cause seal issues? So far, I've never had to mess with them
Forks will sometimes burp fluid when they are bottomed out. This gets confused for blown seals. I don't think that its good for the forks to be bottoming out though.
The main thing is to have GOOD ratchet straps, NOT the pull locking style and the newer style Canyon Dancer. I've hauled many bikes in my truck and hauled my Busa all over in the bed. The only mod I had to do was to use a piece of wood in front of the front tire to keep the front fender from rubbing the bed. Sometimes the front wheel can move to the side if the straps are not tight enough. You get a feel for how tight to make the straps... Too tight and you will bend stuff, too loose and the bike might move around. The wheel chock is a great idea, but not 100% necessary.
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