Trailer Restraint

[No_Style]

Well just ordered some of the T-Rex restraints and some of their rear axle sliders.
Pricing was:
$60 USD for the axle sliders for a ZX-6R
$45 USD for the axle sliders for a YZF-R6
$90 for the restraint system per bike, so $180 USD there.
Shipping was the bullshit part at $145.
They have 15% off the above prices as well at the moment, and they were good enough to refund me the 15% because I placed the order just before they put up the notification of their sale.

So all in all, averages out at $142.50 USD per bike for parts and $72.50 for shipping. Ended up with a $25 USD refund per bike (which was a bonus) due to their sale, so that brings it down to a total of $190 per bike, shipped to Australia.

The upsides compared to the Pitbull system are:
* You can basically make it work on any bike with axle sliders
* It's about half the price shipped to Aus (even if you have to buy the axle sliders like I did, much less if you already have them)
* You don't have to buy new pin sets at $100 a pop for different bikes.
* You can run axle sliders (the Pitbull system means you can't, or at least you have to take them out and put them back in, in order to use the Pitbull restraint).

My main reason for using this over straps is that I now have a rather small enclosed trailer to fit two bikes in, and getting in there to try and use ratchet straps is bloody hard.
I reckon these T-Rex restraints in combo with a front wheel chock will make the job much simpler and be just as secure (if not more so) and it doesn't compress the suspension they way straps can (depending on how you use them).