How should I tie down my bike now that it has clip-ons?

[Spidey]

Got some soft-tie straps from a local motorcycle shop.  They are only 1 inch but hopefully thats enough.  I plan on doubling up ratchet style tie downs at each end (I have a few extra), just in case.  The trailer I'm using is a 5x8 and we're moving two monsters so I'm a bit weary of something coming loose going down the highway.  I've normally taken a larger trailer but this was all that we could come up with this trip. 

Once you leave your house, drive a couple of miles.  Then pull over and make sure the straps are tight and everything is ok.  I make a habit of doing this.  It only takes 30 seconds or so.   

[mitt]

Once you leave your house, drive a couple of miles.  Then pull over and make sure the straps are tight and everything is ok.  I make a habit of doing this.  It only takes 30 seconds or so.   

Except when the bike is laying on the trailer and you have to set it back up   Never has happened to me, but I helped a guy who had drove a long way then lost the bike on the trailer just a mile from home.

mitt

[Spidey]

Man, that sucks.  Really sucks.

Yeah, maybe check it after less than a coupla miles.  I have a van, so I do a quick reach back and check the straps are tight at a stop sign three blocks from my house and then I have a specific gas station about 2 miles away, right before the freeway, at which I stop for an out-of-the-seat check.  

I was with Tigre once, and we had his streetbike in the back of his minivan.  He'd just tied it down (poorly, as it turns out) and we drove a coupla blocks.  As he left a stop sign, it rolled out of the chock ( ) and was just barely slowed down by one of the loose straps.  Luckily, I was in the passenger seat and managed to jump back, toss my body under it and save it.  Nothing like watching a custom paint job bounce off tool kits and other metal bits inside a van.  

[duccarlos]

Except when the bike is laying on the trailer and you have to set it back up   Never has happened to me, but I helped a guy who had drove a long way then lost the bike on the trailer just a mile from home.

mitt

Happened to me. Drove for about 200 miles and right before I got back on the freeway, I looked back and it was on its side. That really sucked. I got it back up and tied as well as could be expected, got on the freeway and off on the next exit. No fun at all.