How do I secure a dirt bike in a truck bed overnight?

Overnight is exactly when truck-bed bikes disappear, so treat it like a security problem, not a parking problem. The goal: make the bike impossible to slide out quietly and worthless to ride if it is.

• Chain the frame to the truck. A hardened chain (or two) through the bike's frame to the bed's tie-down anchors or around the frame rail is the core move. Straps stop bouncing; chains stop thieves.
• Back the tailgate against a wall. A bike can't slide out of a bed that opens onto brick. This one costs nothing and defeats the standard two-man lift.
• Lock the bike separately. Disc lock or a lock through the rear sprocket, so even a freed bike can't roll.
• Cover it. An anonymous lump under a cheap cover attracts far less attention than a clean motocross bike glowing under a parking-lot light.
• Pick the spot. Under a light, in camera view, visible from your room if you're at a motel. Ground-floor window view is worth asking for.
• Motion alert on the frame. A hidden magnetic GPS tracker pings your phone at the first movement — you'll know at the moment of the attempt, not at sunrise. And if they somehow succeed, police get a live location for a bike that otherwise has no plates and no trail.

Do all six and you can actually sleep.

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