[FIRE UP]

My new 2023 DCT Tour is supposed to be here this week. The dealer is 10 miles away but will not deliver. Here in Michigan we have snow on the ground and salt all over the roads. I'm renting a Uhaul motorcycle trailer to get it home. I'm putting a Condor wheel chock in the front. I am not securing it. The bike will go into the chock and when tied down the bike nor chock should not move. I trailered my FJR to North Carolina using this method and it worked great, although I used a Canyon Dancer on the handlebars.....so will try to use the soft strap method above the front wheel. I'm nervous as heck reading all of the scrapping bottom stories, and of course just taking my brand new toy up a ramp at all. But no way I'm riding this home with all the salt on the roads.....although now that I type this not sure how much better an uncovered trailer will be anyway for salt spray?

Deagle10,
Congrats on your new '23 Wing. They're such fabulous bikes! Anyway, I don't blame you for wanting to haul it home even though it's a mere 10 miles or so. Now, depending on your speed, wind conditions, blizzard conditions or calm weather scenarios, yeah, you'll get a tad bit of the salt spray but not excessive. It will be waaaaaaaaaaay less than riding it home for that 10 miles. Depending on what you have for accommodations, if you get it home and it does have some dusting of salt spray, if you can douse it with some warm or even HOT water to neutralize the effects of any of the salt spray, you're new Wing will be just fine.

If you don't have any way of at least rinsing it off with hot or warm water, at least get it indoors and do a very thorough hot water wipe down. And get into every nook and cranny possible. And that means under it too. It's really too bad you have to do all this at all. We'd all love to pick up a new Wing and just hop on it and ride to where ever, ON THE WAY HOME. But, the weather and time of year doesn't always cooperate. By the way, what color did you get?
Scott

 

[Kfadd1]

A couple of more pics.
What is not shown because I don't have pics of, are the final set of tie downs that are using what's called Double J-hooks for the ends and attach on the Wing, at the holes in the frame that are just below the mid section of the seat. Those holes are oval shaped and the only hooks I could find were the double J hooks. I had to cut the ends off my one set of tie downs and sew on those double J hooks. They work in that spot PERFECTLY!.

By the way, just in case anyone's thinking or wondering, the trucks suspension does drop about 2" - 2 1/2" inches or so. Not anywhere near the overload limit of a 1,500 lb. payload.

The right and best way to haul a GoldWing in a pickup bed!


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[mrmagloo]

My new 2023 DCT Tour is supposed to be here this week. The dealer is 10 miles away but will not deliver. Here in Michigan we have snow on the ground and salt all over the roads. I'm renting a Uhaul motorcycle trailer to get it home. I'm putting a Condor wheel chock in the front. I am not securing it. The bike will go into the chock and when tied down the bike nor chock should not move. I trailered my FJR to North Carolina using this method and it worked great, although I used a Canyon Dancer on the handlebars.....so will try to use the soft strap method above the front wheel. I'm nervous as heck reading all of the scrapping bottom stories, and of course just taking my brand new toy up a ramp at all. But no way I'm riding this home with all the salt on the roads.....although now that I type this not sure how much better an uncovered trailer will be anyway for salt spray?

Be cautious of the ramp angle as it transitions to the bed. The Goldwing engine block is rather unprotected and I've seen more than once, some ugly outcomes.

Also, why won't the dealer let you wait to pick it up until you get a break in the conditions?

 

[Deagle10]

I am getting a red one.
The dealer says they just don't have the room, and from the looks of the service area and showroom they are pretty full. Sea-doos and atv's take up a lot of room. I asked if they could store it until March and they said they couldn't. I asked if they could deliver and they said they can't get the help to spare for that. They seemed pretty honest and pretty eager to make a sale, so I'll just make do with a U-Haul trailer. It's only 10 miles and the roads are dry (at least right now), but there is light salt still there, although every day the traffic clears it some. I do have a snowmobile friend that offered to pick it up in his large enclosed snowmobile trailer. No idea the angle of the ramp on that. My guess is it would be worse than the small uhaul trailer I have reserved.

Getting a new bike home.......definitely not a horrible problem to have.

 

[KrustyKush]

If the roads are dry, as you say, I wouldn't worry a bit about riding the new bike a mere 10 miles home. Wet, would be a different matter... but even wet, I wouldn't really get worked up about a 10 miles ride in salt. Over the course of the next few years and 100+ thousand miles, your Wing is gonna ride over some salt here and there. Can't be avoided. Even in usually hot Texas they put brine down on the roads when ice threatens.

Yeah, pick a "dry" day and ride that baby home. Temps won't matter. You can do ANYTHING for 10 miles... and BTW congrats on the new 23!