View Poll Results: Have you ever had your bike nicked, or know someone who has?

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  • yup, theiving beggers got mine!

    37 24.50%
  • and/or I know someone who has.

    49 32.45%
  • never

    72 47.68%
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Thread: Have you ever had your bike nicked, or know someone who has?

  1. #1
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    17th June 2003 - 17:34
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    Question Have you ever had your bike nicked, or know someone who has?

    I ask this question 'cos insurance companies consistantly claim that motorcycles are often stolen, and therefore attract a higher premium.

    I have only ever heard of a couple people having their bike stolen, and assume its more of a problem for Harley owners...
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    Don't know anyone who has nor had mine nicked..... doesn't mean I am invincible though

    *looks out for suspicious vans*
    /end communication

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    i've had mine tampered with and it would've been nicked if it hadn't had a disc lock on (steering lock and ignition are STILL not fixed!.. its screwdriver operated now

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    Yip, my last roadbike was stolen from outside a mates place at the Mount. Ignition was locked but no disk lock (VT 250 with weirdo front brake). The cops caught the guy on it a few days later when he crashed it for the umpteenth time and he ended up doing a few months.
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    I should of also included the response:
    "no, but I've had a car nicked"

    I reckon bikes aren't targeted more by thieves, wonder if Statistics NZ have any figures on this.

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    First theft I know of was of a mates honda 250 in 1980, and the insurance company refused to pay up (things don't change that much do they?). Things got so bad in the UK with superbike thefts that you couldn't get insurance without the bike being locked in a garage overnight and equipped with alarm and immobiliser.

    Having said that my Suzuki A100 could be started with a lollipop stick, but nobody stole that and I used to leave my car unlocked when liviing Glasgow so that if people wanted anything out of it they didn't put a brick through the window. Never had it nicked.....still a marina 1.8 in budgie greeny yellow was not something people really wanted to be seen in.

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    lol... thats one way of fighting back or should I say surendering your lifestyle. Either way thats a bloody good economical solution to this theft nuisance.

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    kawasaki colour?

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    haha, funny stuff

    nope never heard of one being stolen in my whole long life :P

    hmm, its 2:08am, i should really sleep? meh, but i was always told by my old man that even my CB250RS was a risk because of how easy it is, just 1 man and a van, and boom, its gone, and the motors in his kids go-kart

    :S stuffed if i know.

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    I had a suzuki GT500A stolen so reported it to the police and they bloody found it Dame!
    Your never to old for a sportsbike

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    Mate had a near new TX500 Yamaha stolen once (and forever) - he was well pleased!

    I had the Ducati nicked! I wasn't!
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    Friend of mine had a 750 duke nicked.we'd been out on a ride,got back,he stopped at a friends on the way home,parked the bike in the front yard,outside the OPEN front door.Was only there 10 min's,came out and the bike was gone-we rekon he'd been followed around there.never saw it again.
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    My mate had his 88 XR250 pinched out of his locked garage.
    for no one on this earth can you trust,
    not men, not women, not beasts,

    *lifts sword*, this you can trust
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    recently? man... talk about desperate crims!

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    even 19988 is recent enough for better bikes to be aorund, i dunno if it was 1978.. then maybe, itd beat those brittish motorized bicycles


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