I'll be trailering my bike back to Melbourne (from the Gold Coast) and having never had my bike on a trailer I'm a wondering if there are any specific brand tie downs that people can recommend. It will be on an 8x5 tandem trailer and I don't think there are any tie down hooks on the bed of the trailer so I'll have to tie off on the rails running along the top of the sideboards.

I can see that people use tie down extensions and they are around the bottom tree but where would you tie down on the rear? It's a Dyna so I'm guessing the swing arms or shocks?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 I have always tied down the rear tyre, over the top of tyre than through rim back over top of tyre than tie off. This allows for the bikes suspention to take some of the bumps. And the front at the triple tree, stand over bike and push weight down on front end as you tie down. Duck tape a blanket over bike front end to protect from stones. Hope this helps and have a safe trip.

i tie down from the front fort leg mudguard mounts as well as too let the bike have a bit of suspension  but i also tie down  from the h/bars  but not  too much presure as  if you nearly bottom the forks out you can blow a seal   ,   (walrus like a nice tight seal too-blow,

make sure you have good tiedown's  ( not slip-up's ) brand

When are you going DW??

Looks like the 18th of Jan mate. Settlement on our place is 20th so gots to be gone by then.

Thanks to everyone for the input. Like your idea Scar, might just try that.

There is a very good rear wheel tie down, has a harness over the back tyre that ties it down. The dirt bike guys use this only with nothing on the front (bikes sit in a channel normally anyway) The biggest problem with tie downs on the forks is all that pressure on the fork seals for an extended peroid of time. We use to put a plastic oil drum between the wheel and the guard to alleviate this. The best design by far is the one I used for years, made up brackets to fit the trees and had solid rod which was mounted to a bracket on the floor of the trailer. We used to tow the trailer with 4 bikes for 2 hours over some heavy 4wd terrain, the only bikes that fell over were on straps

Ballards offroad dirt bike parts and accesories Page 53 for the rear wheel holder, they do a street bike version now. Might be ok?

Oh and a mate used to put a length of chain as a safety after fitting straps!

Its a bit like rollin up a power lead, everyone is gunna have a different/better way of doin it.