ALCAN the road of destruction.
Working out a 4 point tie down is the best thing you can do. Many do not like compressing the suspensions on a bike but if you know you are going to have some rough roads, Alaska roads, ALCAN, bridges in Utah on I 15 (these are a few that I have crossed in the last month that are high on my list of worst roads) then compressing the suspension is the best thing you can do to keep things from moving around. On my bikes I ran 7 straps when we hit the ALCAN, 2 from the front the bike to the Condor wheel chocks, used these to compress the front suspension, 2 from the same front bike point to the floor. I did not compress the rear suspension as that is rather stiff but I did run the straps to the lower shock mounts and I did pull it down tight enough to compress the tire some. The 7th strap was used to hold the Condors square as I do not have them bolted in. I did this by using the highway bars to the Condor, not really a tiedown point but necessary without a boltdown point.
I don't like the idea of using the seat as a tiedown point as you run the risk of ruining the seat and second this is not a very secure tiedown point in the event of an accident. Here in Alaska some of the insurance companies were looking at how things were secured and denying claims for improper tiedowns on cargo. Just my $.02.
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