Trailered many a road bike in my days (on trailers, in the back of pickup trucks, etc.). Everyone always starts by compressing the suspension ... until the inevitable happens. It might take 1 trip or 25 trips, but it happens. Then they start strapping and/or chocking the WHEELS/TIRES down. That's not to say fighting the suspension is impossible -- I know many swear by it. But I've seen far too many incidents where it's worked out bad. No thank you, sir. I'll pass.
Because a lot of guys here also ride motorcycles, I was always chasing a way to secure the rear wheel on a motorcycle trailer or hitch carrier. I finally came up with these ideas. I found the wingnuts would loosen on long trips so I secured them with a bungee.
The 1/4" bolt holds this to the narrow ramp, both eye bolts are outside of the tire channel. I don't like standard wing nuts, I want more thread surface area for something that's always getting reused. Since this was for the back of my motorhome with lots of hangover, the rear drug frequently so I couldn't have the wingnut hanging down, this is how I got it up higher. I was ER70S-2 on another site, these aren't pirated photos.
On a wider aluminum rail -
The right eyebolt is threaded into the alum and secured with a locknut -
After finding the front tire trying to escape ...
I added one to the front. All homemade wingnuts allow the eyebolt to pass through if necessary.
I don't remember why I had to move one eyebolt outside the rail but this is how I did that using 1/4" strap -
No matter how hard I tried, the strap always found a way to loosen up. Also showing drag damage -
The front always got double strapped and bungied midway to the footpeg to handle the inevitable slack.
Look closely and you can see the bungy cord, mid strap, running back to the footpeg -
