Best way to tie her up...

[guzzi_nz]

What in invercargill groin_nz also watch the ramp on to ferry its those bars they are a cunt just bout lost it there last time

[dhunt]

Thanks very much for all the useful comments - awesome!

Celtic Sea Lilly


We’re going across the strait on the 8th of Jan, three days down to Invercargill for two days, and then 3 days back up, crossing the strait again on the 17th Jan. Can’t wait! I think we booked with the Interislander since we couldn’t get the right travel time on Bluebridge.

Ciao

What time/what ferry? We're going on the lynx at 3:30 on the 8th and coming back up the 18th. I'll have to remember find some tie downs to take with me, as indicators start getting expensive

[bear]

Found the ferry tie down sweet, just rope with a hook on the end. They give you four loops on the floor to tie down to. Use all four if you can, take some rags if you plan of using the ferry's tie downs - as they are just rope and a bit dirty.

[Coyote]

Your safest bet would be to hang on to the bike for the whole trip.

[merv]

I've found that 4 AeroFast tie downs fit nicely into a 2 litre icecream container (yeah without the icecream in it) so that they don't wreck any of your other gear in your bag, then just whip them out on the ferry and tie your bike down. Depending on how they park you can usually use all of them. Worst I've done is 2 on the front and one on the back. I have the short extra strap type thingys that you can easily wrap around your bars and then hook the tie down to those. There's no room for the big hooks to fit my bars especially without wrecking switchblocks and stuff like that on the VFR.

I haven't been on the latest Lynx, but here's a few pics on the old Lynx and the TopCat - road and dirt bikes tied down just to show you some examples back when I still had my DR250. The ferry guys have a habit of just pulling a tie down over your seat. If would do f'all to stop the bike moving if it decided to fall over, it would just slip across the seat, so you got to hook onto your bars at least.