Quote Originally Posted by ratspike View Post
Nope, never got pulled over. AFAIK there's nothing illegal about a bike rack on a moto, at least in Oregon. I did normally have a flag at the end of the tray though, same as you'd do with any other long load sticking out the back of your vehicle. There are, or were anyway, a few commercially available racks for ADV type bikes but mostly it's a DIY thing. I've seen a few in person and they're usually pretty ingenious.
Yeah, I think it's probably a West Coast thing. Lol. I could see some cop having a bad day trying to cite someone for riding with an "unsecured load" or something similar though. I know that when I was in Japan, I would frequently load down my scooter with all kinds of bags and boxes of groceries, and pass by cops who wouldn't even look at me twice. And then, once in Tokyo, I saw someone trying to transport some lumber in a similar manner (not too much different from what I did frequently) and he didn't get 3 blocks before he got pulled over. Tokyo cops tend to be a bit stricter and somewhat more zealous than out in the countryside... I imagine even in N. America you'll probably get more leeway in a sparsely populated area than you would in a big city.