Bringing a motorcycle?

Also, be sure you will be able to easily access frame hook mounts in case you need to get winched out. If you mount your bike rack on the frame hook mounts, you need to be able to quickly dismount the bike and rack.

 

I've seen reciever hitches mounted on the front of a rv before but would probably mean considerable fabrication on it as well as the plastic bumper

 

Seems like more of a hassle than it’s worth to me unless I knew I was going to be shut down for a couple days and had a comfortable place to leave the truck where I was fairy sure it wouldn’t be towed, ticketed or vandalized.

 

Dredging this back up because I was thinking about this very thing. Those dudes with the RV sleepers and toy boxes … what's their payload? 10k pounds?

And loading onto and off the catwalk is going to get to be a PITA, lift crane or not. The bigger the bike, the bigger the pain. Either way, I think we would need a street legal bike. As some of those scooters, mopeds, and pocket bikes, law enforcement would probably enjoy writing us a ticket on.

I prefer the front bumper approach. I have a dirtbike carrier that slides into my hitch receiver on my pick-up truck. Installs easy. The bike loads easy as long as the bike is not a big fat pig. I had a CRF 450X that I carried on there. Was very easy. Now if you had a receiver on the front of your truck, that would be the way to go. Let me say why I think so, then you guys can shoot holes in this thinking.

It would be lower to the ground. Those carriers come with a 4.5 or 5 foot ramp that bolts down while in transit. And a dirtbike has so much breakover angle, it is no problem to load over that angle. And the rain and dirt. Here's what you do. You either don't cover it at all, and it gets soaked. If that doesn't bother you. Or when you know it's going to rain, you cover it. Once the rain stops, uncover it, and wherever it was wet, will dry out while your hauling. Covering it will keep it from getting so nasty. Putting it up on the catwalk, it's going to get covered worse with road grime. Front bumper, it's going to get soaked. I'd rather it get bagged, damp underneath maybe, and then dried out in the wind. That should keep the corrosion down.

Lastly, I have the bike you guys need for this. American designed, developed and built in the U.S. as of 2020.



Cleveland Cyclewerks - FXR: 191 pounds, STREET LEGAL, go any friggin where. Might find a milk crate or something to carry back some groceries. 125cc. I think it has 8 hp. But I bet it will do 60 mph. Probably 100 mpg, if it matters. About 150 mile range. So you load this on the front of your truck, and your total payload capacity reduction is what … 250 pounds including the carrier? I don't think we could do any better. No more rideshare. Easy to load / unload compared to a dresser on the catwalk.

And look how skeletal this thing is! It wouldn't hinder the radiator that much. You'd probably only have a concern when pulling 80k pounds through Death Valley in August. But who passes through Death Valley?

 

Yeah, a problem. The DOT might not like that. Is there a solution? Let's let it simmer a bit.

 

How about removing the front wheel during transport. Just get a front axle pull handle to make it quick n easy.