Need help with how to trailer my Gen6

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  1. brock915

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    I am planning on taking a trip to my home town of Rapid City SD in about 3 weeks, from Chicago area, about 15 hours each way. I have a 4 x 8 utility trailer and wheel chock I purchased from Harbor Freight. I also bought a loading ramp set from them, the fold able kind. Well they are arched, narrow and short and the VFR is too heavy. They are designed for pickup loading. Does anyone have any ideas on a good wide ramp to load my bike on to this trailer. It is only about a foot and a half or two feet off the ground. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.
     
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    Have the end of the trailer level with the side walkblock all the wheels on the trailer and just push the bike over........or just buy a sheet of ply wood cut to size and use that as a ramp instead of paying $$$$$
     
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    Is it strong enough for the VFR? Hope it work out for you. Have a safe trip :)
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    I would think if you put the two ramps side by side with a C-clamp to hold them together that would give you an 18" ramp with a capacity of 1000 lbs. That should work pretty well. Another thing that will help is if you lower the back of the trailer as far as is practical. That makes your entry more level, and just ride it in.
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    so the ramp is designed for pickup loading, and you don't think you can use it on the trailer? why? As long as you have the room to lay out the ramp and still line up the bike, you are golden. If anything, it will make loading easier since you will not have such a steep lift.

    set up the ramp, this includes tying top of ramp to trailer
    line the bike up with the end of the ramp, as straight as possible with the ramp
    walk along side the ramp while holding your bike's bars
    when you get to tailgate of trailer, have friend hold bike in position, and/or use bike's brake lever to make it easier, step into trailer and continue to push bike

     
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    Two 2x10's stacked on top each other or screwed together will work just fine. I've done this several times loading a friends CBR on a trailer with a single 2x10. It bows a bit but is fine. Two of them together would support the VFR just fine.
     
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    I'd leave the trailer and ride the bike.
     
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    Thanks for all of your suggestions, I love VFRWorld! I purchased the aluminum fold-able ramp, which makes it 46" wide and 69" long, and it is flat not arched We got it up very easily. The steel fold-able ramps were arched and just too narrow.
     
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