I’m curious to know how other people have dealt with the situation.
Hold it in, take turns going to the toilet, only stop at small forecourt style petrol stations, etc.
My rack bolts to the towbar flange, and the clamps to the bike do up with a bolts so it’s moderately secure anyway as a thief would need a spanner to get it off. So I do leave the bike on there with just a simple D-lock+cable if stopping for petrol. But there’s just no way I’d stop in a service station and leave it like that.
Pointless post.
That’s why I’ve identified potential mitigations and am asking for opinions on potential solutions.
My question is pretty damn clear.
Calm down, all people are saying is leaving bikes on racks at motorway service stations is a bad idea. The risk of it being nicked might well still only be 1 in a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, you might get away with no security at all, but it’s substantially higher risk than in the back of the car under a blanket or just not stopping.
Their entirely valid solution to your problem is to eliminate the problem to start with.