OldAgeTravellers
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Hi all,
We have just bought this cracking little Suzuki Address. Only a year old and just 385 km on the clock and less than half the new price from a French dealer with a years guarantee and free one year service because I don't think we will do 1,000 km in the year.
I made a nice little folding wooden ramp much lighter than the aluminium ones and have strapped the scooter into the garage.
I have two good ratchet straps pulling down from each side of the back rack going under the back box down to the eye bolts in the floor. Then I made two handlebar straps to pull down to the other eye bolts and a final single strap pulling it from the rear wheel into the wheel chock at the front.
In your experience is this enough to hold it while travelling normally with the pitching and rolling and bumps and also under braking or worse a crash! (100kg of scooter travelling through the van at 70mph I think would be a bit alarming).
I thought about putting another strap from the front rail in the Hymer garage across the seat to the rear rail but that might rub and damage the seat.
I compressed the springs about an inch at the back and just a little at the front so as not to put too much force on the twist grip and it seems not to slacken off if I pull down hard on the rack.
Any suggestions based upon your own experience of travelling with a scooter in the back?.
Oh, I have put it on a weighbridge and it is under the rear wheel limit but I will need to do quite a bit of careful packing.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Steve
We have just bought this cracking little Suzuki Address. Only a year old and just 385 km on the clock and less than half the new price from a French dealer with a years guarantee and free one year service because I don't think we will do 1,000 km in the year.
I made a nice little folding wooden ramp much lighter than the aluminium ones and have strapped the scooter into the garage.
I have two good ratchet straps pulling down from each side of the back rack going under the back box down to the eye bolts in the floor. Then I made two handlebar straps to pull down to the other eye bolts and a final single strap pulling it from the rear wheel into the wheel chock at the front.
In your experience is this enough to hold it while travelling normally with the pitching and rolling and bumps and also under braking or worse a crash! (100kg of scooter travelling through the van at 70mph I think would be a bit alarming).
I thought about putting another strap from the front rail in the Hymer garage across the seat to the rear rail but that might rub and damage the seat.
I compressed the springs about an inch at the back and just a little at the front so as not to put too much force on the twist grip and it seems not to slacken off if I pull down hard on the rack.
Any suggestions based upon your own experience of travelling with a scooter in the back?.
Oh, I have put it on a weighbridge and it is under the rear wheel limit but I will need to do quite a bit of careful packing.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Steve