I put mine on the jack when I wash it. Makes doing the wheels a piece of cake and you can get to areas that you normally dont see much easier to clean.

You might have an 800 pound Roadie but I dont. Soon as I finish mine I'm going to weigh it, hoping I'm closer to 600!

Most jacks have a locking mechanism so if the bottle jack bleeds down it will catch. I use 3 straps to be on the safe side. My jack has a loop on all four corners near the wheels so I run one to each side of the handlebars and one long one that goes right between the driver and passenger seats. With that all secured I can remove a wheel and it stays put although I do keep a few spare 2X4's, 4X4's , and my old trusty 4X6 just for my own peace of mind. I have had that 4X6 for at least 8 years. I also always try to jack the bike from the right side so when letting it down I can use my left hand to lower the jack and my right to hold the handlebars and brake (I am right handed). I leave the stand down and let it lean that way a little and come to rest on the stand. I have had it fall one time when I jacked it from the left and I was lowering it down and couldn't hold the front brake. It rolled off the 2X4 and it was all I could do to just let it rest on the floor boards until I gathered myself and pulled it back onto the wheels. That really sucked...but didn't leave a mark.

Mines been sitting on the jack, untied since October. Like everyone else says, just find a balanced spot. If you aren't comfortable still, tie it down.

Similar to what Shamrock and Bushman said I have 1 connector point on each corner of the jack frame. I use 2 straps. 1 will wrap around each grip of the handlebar, tightened, keeping the bars straight. I usually take off my seat and run the 2nd strap between the seat around on top of the seat horn/bolt, tightened.

I don't strap mine. Like everyone else, I know the spot where it is balanced. One other thing I do is I let the jack down so that the locking arms engage the stops. It takes the sway out of the jack arms and makes it more solid and stable. Once you let it down on the stops, pump it up just a little but not so much that it comes back off the stops. That way you have the hydraulics helping and you don't have the entire weight on the stops.

takehikes wrote:
to get mine to fit in the garage with the car it sits on my jack all the time. It so tight in there that the Roadie has to be upright not leaning over so the jack solved that. Since we are in occasional earthquake territory I do have a strap from the side of the Roadie to the wall just in case. Dont want it coming off and wedging between the wall and car! Never get the damn thing out.

Ditto here. Mine has to sit on the jack all the time. I have a one-car garage with A Hyundai Santa Fe,
my R* S, and my '80 Yamaha XS650 Special. Wife grumbles all the time, and there is only a few inches between each bike and the car....
OBMF

Mine is so tight that the wife's Accord slides under the handlebar. When I changed to the wider Starbars it looked like real bad news, then I figured out that by turning the front end to the wall the handlebar end raised up some as it swung through the arc. The things we do!