A receiver type hitch, like the one that holds the bike across, but, using the HF wheel holder mounbted on the "stinger" that plugs in it seems like a good start to me. Id look at hinging the thing so you could roll the bike backwards into it & lock the wheel into it, then, using a lever in a receiver welded onto to the wheel chock mount, raise it into position & lock it. Pull lever out & toss in car. Just over 1/2 the weight of the bike on the car, one man load/unload. Might have to roll it back onto a foot long ramp to get the rear wheel lined up on the  wheelchock, but I think that approach would be doable & cheap & stable, but would require some welding. & of course, a couple arms poking out to tie off to so it doesnt lean over.

I don't know what kind of car you have, nor what its weight ratings might be. But I think I personally would prefer to put the bike on a trailer. Carrying the whole bike on the rear of the car will add most of 500 pounds (400 for the Savage, then add the carrier and receiver hitch) a good foot behind the bumper. I saw a one-wheel carrier years ago, but know little about it. Still, that would add most of 300 pounds aft of the bumper (rear wheel is over half the weight of the bike, plus the hitch and mounting assembly). The one-wheel carrier I saw carried the front wheel and allowed the rear to trail, which used the steering head of the bike for the pivot and reduced the weight on the car. That also rotated the wheel "forward" which might or might not matter with directional motorcycle tires. I do not know whether they suggested removing the chain. Most motorcycles (but not the Savage)also drive the speedometer and odometer from the front wheel so carrying the front would not rack up any undriven miles.

Seems to me a person could find a usable trailer fairly inexpensively. There is, of course, the annual license fee for the trailer. A flat-bed trailer could be used for other purposes, as well. A used boat trailer, minus the boat, could have a channel bolted to it to carry the bike. With an assistant the winch on the boat trailer could easily pull the bike up onto the channel. Tongue weight is usually about 10% - 15% of the total, so the weight on the car would probably be about 100 - 150 pounds.

Added: two more posts appeared while I was typing. Be advised those two hooks are not designed for towing. They were put there so the car could be chained to the deck on the ship that brought it here.

Unfortunately, there is no way to carry the weight of either end of your Savage and still stay under the 120 pound weight limit. And that doesn't even allow for the weight of the carrier.

Another approach exists, but it still requires the trailer hitch on the car. Many RVers tow a car behind their motorhomes. The dolly they use carries one end of their car. It could just as easily carry one end of a motorcycle. Neat trick there, the dolly doesn't require a license or tag, because it cannot really be used for anything else except towing another vehicle. The dolly could easily carry the whole motorcycle, but that might run it afoul of the "no license" rule.

Jeff, putting the front wheel in the carrier and letting the engine and tranny spin in neutral isn't a good idea because their is no forced oil flow to lube these spinning shafts, gears & components as the engine isn't running to pump that oil, yet they will see all the wear and motion of all the miles running "dry".

I would put my rear tire in the holder (up in the air) and let my front tire free wheel down the road.   This requires the bike's frame get triangulated/restrained at several points along each side and the handle bars be restrained with a little bit of bungee controlled free motion to accommodate turning radius effects.

I have no bumper to grab to, jest some flexible bumper looking plastic ....


I am sort concerned that the rear wheel locked in the carrier is gonna get jacked around some bouncing on down the road  ......  straight won't be the issue, turns and bumps will be the issue.

If I could pivot the low mounted wheel chock on a clevis pin hitch then the bike could be tied up all straight and rigid and the clevis pin hitch would do all the bouncing/rotating/binding actions, not the bike's wheels and frame fighting each other.

Seems I could get a receiver mounted no harder than to get that wheel carrier mounted secure enough to carry over 200 lbs of rear MC weight. And you said 120 lb hitch weight max, so doesn't that rule out carring the rear wheel ?
I'd go w/ a small trailer,.....they are license free in Ca and Or I know.

Towing the bike backwards leads to another "gotcha." The steering geometry makes the front wheel "want" to center itself, going forward. It makes the front wheel "want" to flop to one side going backward. You might have difficulty in restraining it to center and yet allowing it to track around turns.

By pivoting the rear wheel carrier the front end could be secured firmly, say by a piece of 2" thick wood that encompassed the two fork tubes and the main frame down-tube.