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Home / Vehicles / Motorcycle Strap Rings on the Hawk 250

Motorcycle Strap Rings on the Hawk 250

John P.

May 17, 2016 By John P.

Just a quick update since I’m keeping all of my Hawk 250 mods cataloged here on the blog. One of the things you have to do with a motorcycle occasionally is strap it to a trailer. And while it’s possible to use handlebar tie-down straps to ratchet it in place, I would rather just hook it if possible. So I found the Canyon Dancer Tie-Down Strap Rings for $7.60.
Canyon Dancer Strap Ring

Turns out they are really well made, smooth and strong bolt on rings that took about 5 minutes to install. Now I can hook my ratcheting straps to the hole and crank it down super fast, just like in this stock photo…

Canyon Dancer

If you have any kind of motorcycle, I highly recommend these babies!

Hawk 250 in the Trailer

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Comments

  1. MotorBeam says

    May 18, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    It should come with it as standard

    • John P. says

      May 18, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      I agree! In fact, every motorcycle should have built in strap mounts! I don’t know why they don’t…

    • Warren says

      January 1, 2017 at 2:36 pm

      Motorbeam, you’re a schmuck for trolling this guy in every post of his. He obviosly loves his bike and then here you come and tell him it sucks and he’s an idiot for buying it. What the crap is wrong with you? He’s taking his time to blog and help others who have the same bike and love theirs as well, he doesn’t need a snob like you to troll him.

      • John P. says

        January 26, 2017 at 1:03 pm

        hehe, he’s not trolling. Don’t worry. ;-) He actually comments on almost ALL of my posts, because he’s been reading the blog for many years!

        Cheers,

        John

  2. Lynn Bennett says

    May 18, 2016 at 7:53 am

    Don’t put those things on a dirt bike! If you fall and the bike brushes by you those could act like knives and slit you wide open. Real motorcycle tiedowns have cloth loops as part of the tiedown that you loop over the bars and the frame in the rear. The loops protect the finish on the bike from the tiedown hooks. Also most better tiedown hooks are rubber coated as well.

    • John P. says

      May 18, 2016 at 3:29 pm

      Good point. In my case, although this is an enduro it will be road ridden 99% of the time, so if it went down there would be bigger problems than these little rings. :-) Also, where they are attached is kind of between the front fork and the gas tank, so they are recessed enough that I can’t see how those would ever rake across skin.

      But obviously you should evaluate carefully where you put them on your bike to avoid that possibility! Thanks for the reminder Lynn!

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