[playwme]

How can you Yanks not fit 2 bikes into your oversized trucks? We use a Toyota Hilux with a 7 foot long tray and can comfortably fit 2 sportsbikes no worries. I've even had a GSXR and a BMW "mothership" (r1200 or something) in there. The Hilux looks like a toy compared to the Chev's and Ford's you guys have over there.

Sometimes the best thing to do is modify your mounting points. For the back wheels we have a small length of RHS steel with a slot cut horizontally and bolted to the floor where the rear wheel sits. We then run a leather belt through the slit, around the bottom of the wheel and tie it off. Stops the back of the bike jumping aound. At the front get some eyelets in the right places and you're set.

[croue]

Wow, lots of advice. I'll add mine I guess. I can get two bikes in my Tundra (have actually done it in my previous truck, a 1991 Nissan hardbody as well, now THAT was a challenge)

My setup:
-2 Baxley sportchocks - GET THESE. They rock. I don't bolt them down, haven't needed to.
-Aluminum rail down the middle of the bed. I got mine from pitposse.com, but lots of places sell them. I got the black anodized, which turned a light gold less than 3 months later in the CA sun. Just make sure to get the low profile ones, the thicker rails stick up more when you're hauling other stuff. The thinner ones are pretty much flush with the grooves in the bed.
I tie the fronts to the middle rail and the corner rails with soft ties around the lower triple clamp. I tie the rear wheels to the corners and either to each other of the middle rail. Just to keep them from moving sideways.

I load them with a ready ramp for the bikes (which is also my bed-extender) and my older folding ramp. Not sure of the brand, it's an 8-foot ramp that folds in half. I walk up that one while the bike is on the ready ramp. I used to ride up the old ramp, but I'm older and wiser now.

I'll soon be adding a wheel well toolbox also as that won't get in the way of the bikes.

I can load one bike ramp unfold to fold in about 10 minutes. A little longer at the end of the day what with the beer and stogie and all. Two bikes about 15. The key is the chocks and the middle rail. No scrambling for tie downs while balancing a bike and no passing tiedowns across the other bikes fender, through their wheel, etc.

C