Dude, there's only one way to load a sportbike or dirtbike.....

Back 'er up, hop in the saddle and pin it. Wheelie up the ramp and when you hit the bulkhead......stop. At this point your front wheel will be on top of your Screw and you'll have plenty of room for gear in your bed.

Just wanted to offer a different approach..

 

Get one of these for the front http://www.canyondancer.com
and tie the rear from the passenger pegs to the back corners

Also does the SV have a bottom fairing? Is so then be careful with the ramp. When loading my buddy's R1 the lip of the ramp hit the fairing and scratched the heck out of it.

 

Do not fully compress your forks. You want to load up the suspension about an inch, no more. I just trailered two bikes almost 1700 miles and have much experience loading bikes. Use a Canyon Dancer Bar Harness http://www.canyondancer.com/ or equivalent, available in any bike shop, that's what the others were describing. Use the bar harness for the front and two normal straps on the rear passenger pegs. Tie down the front first. If you really feel like going the extra distance, run a strap from the front tie downs in the bed, thru the back wheel. That will keep the bike pulled to the front.

Check my gallery in the next day or so and you will see how I strapped two bikes side by side in an enclosed trailer. You could drop the trailer off a cliff and those bike would not move the way I have the tied down.

KC-10 FE out...

 

I used to just back into a ditch, nothing to it

 

1 have a 600lb vmax. i tried only once with the help of a friend walking up the ramps. we were fighting each other and each felt the bike was going over....ever push the bike? you usually have it leaned towards you a little,,now you get the picture. the bike actually rolled back off the ramps and into a snowbank.....no damage to anything. i now have a set of ramps for a quad and added about 2' to get a better angle. unfortunately my full header system is a pipe under a pipe and with the truck so high that wasn't enough angle. i would be careful of the angle of the truck. you will either be pushed into the truck with gravity or fighting gravity if uphill! find a curb and put your truck on the low side still level. i ride mine up into the truck. i will have my cell phone on if you want to call, i am heading to work, then i will be doing the same thing today at about 2 pm. only i have a 29' tt rv on the back also! going to the catskills for the week! 610 248 9989

 

I'm going to a BMW motorcycle rally in October and will be loading my bike on my truck so I can tow my camper and I can't do the "hop on" at 5'6". I'll probably be drummed out of the club for not riding the bike there and sleeping in a pup tent but I can't due to a medical condition. I may go to a cattle loading ramp and see if I can load mine or find a steep bank here in the mountains. Since the rally is at a horse arena (Shelbyviulle, TN), they probably have unloading docks for horses I can use.

 

I always park mine on a downgrade, it helps a lot!

 

Horses don't need ramps, they hop in and out of trailers. Cattle sometimes do (stubborn little f'ers) and if the arena also has cattle shows/auctions then they will have a ramp for big rig trailers to unload them, but I am sure someone there (out of all those people) will help you out getting it back in with one of their ramps or something. Good luck!

 

Get a set of ramps, I prefer the wide 4 wheeler type. Put the back wheels of the truck as low as possible, with the fronts as high as possible. Make sure you secure the ramp to the truck. You don't want the ramp to fall off of the truck with you and the bike on it. Once the bike is in the truck, I have always liked to put the bike on its sidestand, and then tighten up the left side first then attach the right side with just enough pressure to stabalize the bike. Leave the like in gear so that it will not want to roll and also consider using a rope to lock the front brake. Don't compress the forks very much. This will risk damaging the fork seals and then the will leak.

Joe

 

I just though of a new idea if you can't find a ditch. Lift the front of your truck up with a floor jack (takes mine 10 seconds to do) and apply the truck's parking brake so it doesn't move and get that sucker in there and apply the brakes as soon as you get in the bed.

 

not really a great idea to leave in gear! tranny takes a beating. just tie it off real well! just loaded mine tonight by myself, hooked up tt. and ready to roll tomorrow morning to the catskills!

 

Pics of bikes loaded with the Canyon Dancer Bar Harness in my gallery...

KC-10 FE out...

 

Use a cooler as a step stool. Buddy of mines places a closed cooler and uses it as a step stool to load his bikes and he has a lifted truck as well. Does it very EASY

 

Exactly ... JUST make sure the base of the cooler is pretty flat. I bought one once with real rounded edges on the bottom and it made it very tipsy when stepping up on it.
Another suggestion is to take a milk crate and zip tie or bolt a board to the bottom of it. I use the milk crate for storing ALL my chain lube, oils, rags, and ratio rites when heading to the desert ... and then you can flip the crate over and use it for a secure step stool when loading your bike.

 

or to sit around and talk **** between sessions :lol