I'm keen to hear how.. Correct me if I'm wrong..
Point he is making is the preloaded tension of the forks will keep the tie downs tight.
You will have constant tension.If you chock the wheel you will only have the tension of how much the strap has stretched.Very common for that buckle to slip a bit.You just can't keep it as tight as preloading the forks.Seems you should be able to.The chock will take pressure off the fork seals tho.
In a pickup 1 bike.Lock front wheel in driver side forward corner.As one early poster mentioned you will lose that desired angle in that corner.You can get enough of it back by leaning the bike a bit inside.Take another tie down and go from the outside bar to the back corner of the bed on the drivers side.Swing the rear end over into same corner and shut the gate if you can.This will give you a good angle of lean to the inside.Won't block your view in the blind spot yet you can still see the bike in the rear view and side mirror.
Take the tails of your tie downs and make a half hitch at the buckle.This will keep the strap tight if the buckle slips.Take the rest of the tail and go over the bar and through the loop and back over the bar with a loose clove hitch.This will keep the hook from bouncing off the bar if you hit a pot hole or whatever.
How you put your tie down hooks on matters.Always from the front.This keeps the tie down hanging on the bar if it loosens.If hooked from the back they come off easier.When you hook into your bed loops same thing, how you hook it matters
Two bikes,either turn both wheels into the corners and repeat the above,with the difference being you take both back wheel and slide them together in the middle. Run a strap from rear corners through the wheels and around once and your set.
You can also turn the front wheels into eachother and kick yhe rear wheels into the rear corners and shut the gate.In this case you can use a loose piece of line and loosely tie yhe bars of both bikes together.If a tie down fails the other bike takes the load.
Strategically throw your gear bags,coolers and what not in the back and those bikes aren't going anywhere.
Wheel chocks are pretty much a joke.Bed mounted shoes are a little better.
If you gotta have a chock in there.Make it yourself.
You don't wanna be "that guy".
Maybe we are thinking of two different things?
