Tow ropes for bikes - had to push a bike lately?

**rocketman1** · 11th February 2015, 19:21

Had to push my bike GSXR for a couple of hundred metres, when it ran out of petrol just short of civilisation.
Fark... is that hard work or what, especially in full riding gear on a hot day, and that was on the flat.
200m would have been my limit I think.
Got me thinking has anyone ever tried to tow a bike with another bike, and or carry a rope / strop for that purpose?
Must be easier than pushing.

**nzspokes** · 11th February 2015, 19:23

I believe it is best done by towing from peg to peg. Read that somewhere ages ago.

**Akzle** · 11th February 2015, 19:42

get fit you fucken pussy.

followed by: don't run out of fuel like a douche.

followed by: i always have rope.

followed by: peg to peg isn't a bad idea.
you want your shit unslung on the front bike, and preferably the fuckwit bike.

have towed a 'froady with a ute on a rope, but that was more like drunken fuckwits than saving-some-dumb-cunt-from-himself.

**bogan** · 11th February 2015, 19:44

Don't need a rope, guy with the running bike just pushes his foot on your peg.

**mossy1200** · 11th February 2015, 19:53

Originally Posted by rocketman1

Had to push my bike GSXR for a couple of hundred metres, when it ran out of petrol just short of civilisation.
Fark... is that hard work or what, especially in full riding gear on a hot day, and that was on the flat.
200m would have been my limit I think.
Got me thinking has anyone ever tried to tow a bike with another bike, and or carry a rope / strop for that purpose?
Must be easier than pushing.

You need harden up.
I managed about 3/4 of a km with this set up in Oamaru. Ran out in the old town area and pushed it to the servo near the cop shop over the bridge beside smash palace and through the park. Maybe it was even more than a km. What is worse I did it while the wife reminded me we should have stopped asap after reserve.

**JimO** · 11th February 2015, 19:56

Originally Posted by mossy1200

I did it while the wife reminded me we should have stopped asap after reserve.

was she still sitting on the bike

**Akzle** · 11th February 2015, 20:04

Originally Posted by mossy1200

What is worse I did it while the wife reminded me we should have stopped asap after reserve.

you've never been allowed to forget it since....

**mossy1200** · 11th February 2015, 20:07

Originally Posted by JimO

was she still sitting on the bike

Nope she was carrying a coffee and emasculating me verbally. She still thinks that works but I have the 120sec tone out self defence system that men develop.

**swarfie** · 11th February 2015, 21:09

I've towed hundreds of bikes out of the forest when I was running trail rides (dirt bikes of coarse). Tow rope up between the fork leg and the bottom triple clamp, couple of laps around the handlebar just inboard of the left grip and then a lap around the grip. Tow-ee then hangs onto the grip with the rope under their hand so that if they fall off while being towed the rope is released and their bike doesn't get dragged down the track/road on its side. The tow-ee has to keep tension on the rope while being towed otherwise it can wrap around the front disc or get caught by the tyre knobs. I had a bit of a reputation for hooking people on and going like fark...hahaha....they didn't often come back for seconds

**AllanB** · 11th February 2015, 21:17

Decades ago when young I towed a mates bike far to often as the shit had no money for petrol and always ran out.

Why push it?

Park the bike and walk to the station

**george formby** · 11th February 2015, 22:10

Originally Posted by swarfie

I've towed hundreds of bikes out of the forest when I was running trail rides (dirt bikes of coarse). Tow rope up between the fork leg and the bottom triple clamp, couple of laps around the handlebar just inboard of the left grip and then a lap around the grip. Tow-ee then hangs onto the grip with the rope under their hand so that if they fall off while being towed the rope is released and their bike doesn't get dragged down the track/road on its side. The tow-ee has to keep tension on the rope while being towed otherwise it can wrap around the front disc or get caught by the tyre knobs. I had a bit of a reputation for hooking people on and going like fark...hahaha....they didn't often come back for seconds

+1. More or less how I was towed along a trail and then eventually on a long paddock to get the bike started, which was full of water because I was a knobber.
The strop was just wrapped around the bars a couple of times from the center. I held the end on the left hand grip. Works a treat. Just let go when you get the wobbles.

**James Deuce** · 12th February 2015, 08:43

When they break down, you just set fire to them and claim insurance.

**husaberg** · 12th February 2015, 19:32

Tow onto the hole in the steering head with a tie down hook, I have been towed off the handlebars but its bloody problematic. used to be one of the few reliable ways of hot starting a Cr500 I had.