How easy is it to steal a big GS by lifting it into a van?
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I bought a Luma disc lock to fit into the small gap of back wheel. It's a good value way of adding another layer of hassle to prevent a dolly at the front and the free back wheel used. Won't stop it being lifted up, but will need use of a power tool before it get wheeled off.
I don’t give a fuck either they'll have the biggest surprise of there scummy life’s .
I reiterate what I've said many times on here ... as ex CID Stolen Vehicle Squad and Traffic Motorcycle cop for the most of my thirty years; the biggest enemy is the villains knowing where your 'bike is. If they know it's there then one day they will have it away. Leave it at the front of your house, wash it down on your drive .... they will follow you home and come back for it.
I have a Honda CT125 Hunter Cub and I can't get theft insurance for it
Because of the kind off bike it is, imported, DN4 post code,, I cannot get insurance to cover me for the theft of it.
I've lived here for forty years ...
Always been a motorcycle, most often two, occasionally three motorcycles in my back, totally enclosed yard.
Mid terrace house, no one can look in, high walls surrounding, no one overlooking.
Rear gate in to the 'backs' has two bolts, mortice lock and angle iron bar across with great padlock to secure!
Ground anchor in to two feet of concrete, for the bikes, but not Thatchem approved
Padlock and chain round the front forks and wheel
No alarm but personal attack alarm coupled in (not Thatcham approved but louder than any of theirs)
Two cameras looking down in to the garden
Exterior light come on with movement sensors
Exterior moment sensor for any human movement in the garden gives me warning ...
None Thatchem approved, I don't tick their boxes and I can't get theft insurance
But for forty years I haven't had a problem
Fuck 'em
I have a Honda CT125 Hunter Cub and I can't get theft insurance for it
Because of the kind off bike it is, imported, DN4 post code,, I cannot get insurance to cover me for the theft of it.
I've lived here for forty years ...
Always been a motorcycle, most often two, occasionally three motorcycles in my back, totally enclosed yard.
Mid terrace house, no one can look in, high walls surrounding, no one overlooking.
Rear gate in to the 'backs' has two bolts, mortice lock and angle iron bar across with great padlock to secure!
Ground anchor in to two feet of concrete, for the bikes, but not Thatchem approved
Padlock and chain round the front forks and wheel
No alarm but personal attack alarm coupled in (not Thatcham approved but louder than any of theirs)
Two cameras looking down in to the garden
Exterior light come on with movement sensors
Exterior moment sensor for any human movement in the garden gives me warning ...
None Thatchem approved, I don't tick their boxes and I can't get theft insurance
But for forty years I haven't had a problem
Fuck 'em
Exactly this. In the mid 90s, my partner and I dealt with Halifax's most prolific bike thief. No comment throughout his interviews but off the record he was happy to state that he always had a nice family drive round on a Sunday afternoon. Bikers from all over the area came home from their blat to the caff up in the Dales, washed their bike and then went for a brew while it dried in the sun on their drive/road outside their house. As easy as that.
A determined thief will be hard to beat.
If yours is difficult to steal, only the pro’s will have it away, the lazy opportunist thief knows there are plenty others to choose from.
Don’t make it too easy for them.
If yours is difficult to steal, only the pro’s will have it away, the lazy opportunist thief knows there are plenty others to choose from.
Don’t make it too easy for them.
If we all lived in fear of our bike's being stolen, we wouldn't bother owning a bike. All you can do is to make it difficult for the opportunist thief by using layered security or in the event it's stolen, also fit a tracker. I had one bike stolen years ago, because I was lazy and didn't use an adequate chain and lock thinking any lock would put people off. These days, most opportunist thieves can defeat a poor lock and chain in seconds. They watch the you tube videos too! Buy decent locks and double up. I usually carry three these days. A good thick cable lock, a heavy chain and sold secure lock and disc lock. It'd take more than a few minutes to defeat all of those. Easy pickings are what most opportunists will look for. Also, as above, best to leave your precious bikes on show on driveways where they can be clocked.
Went to a one where they broke into a garage by cutting a large hole in the up and over door , inside was an immobilised car (no wheels fitted ) and they stole the locked and chained 750 Africa twin parked between the car (a Sierra Cosworth saloon) and front wall of the garage by lifting it and dragging it on its side over the bonnet , roof and boot of the car . Bike gone and substantial damage to the Cosworth
On a more positive note
There is a guy in my street with a BMW F850 who leaves it outside his house on the street day and night, with no cover or lock on ever...never been touched. I have sleepless nights about it and its not even mine.
There is a guy in my street with a BMW F850 who leaves it outside his house on the street day and night, with no cover or lock on ever...never been touched. I have sleepless nights about it and its not even mine.
With the lock you have (or indeed any disc or U-lock) the bike is, put very simply, locked to itself. It prevents or at least delays, push away thefts but that’s it.
To lift any bike into a van? Four blokes (you can do it with fewer), two shortish scaffolding poles (or steel bar) through the wheels or any convenient points, up and into the vehicle. Drop it? So what. Gone, in less time than it took you to read this.
Top up on your butter.
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Has anyone preordered any of the new anti-angle grinder Hiplok range? Not totally impossible to cut through but it does take some doing from what I’ve seen on YouTube vids. There’s also a big, sod off ground anchor made from the same material. It’d be a good thing for some to have where they park their bikes at home.
....Coming soon, to a Lithuanian Ebay bike breakers web pages.
(I remember seeing about four UK spec Hexhead R1200GS headlights on a Lithuanian "bike breakers" ebay site when the GS was the most stolen model around. Ask yourself how many British bikes get scrapped in Lithuania, and how many vans with an LT number plate you used to see prior to Brexit ???)
Me too on the Air Tags, I have a monimoto tracker too which I shall fit shortly. The Roadlock is good, but that and a decent chain is better. If it does go missing, I will find you, and you are not going to have a good day................
The downside to Airtags is they alert anyone with an iPhone to there presence who are close by it and it follows
Thieves are not stupid
I have the Monimoto 7 (there is a newer 9 now) and its brilliant
Even when I move the bike in my garage it alerts me
Prior to that he had a Triumph Tiger with all the luggage on and never went anywhere and always sat outside in the street no locks etc
Stresses me lol
I'm fairly sure I saw a YouTube from a link on here where a guy strips the Airtags down and does something to stop scrotes from pinging it ??
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There was one about deleting the speaker?
Just ordered the 9. Discounted at the moment, if anyone is interested
Yeah I saw that but I had literally ordered the 7 like 2 months ago lol
Its works a treat though and very sensitive to movement (but not by the wind)
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