Locking your bike

[H00dz]

Hi there

Has this thread been done???

what a great idea

http://www.lock2lock.co.uk/

Do we have this in NZ???

[ajturbo]

yeah.. i'll set it up.. but the stickers are going to cost everyone $10 plus GST and Postage.. direct debit into my bank.. only then will you get a $ 0.25c sticker

[FJRider]

With battery powered, hand held cutting gear available ... cheaply ... Chains/locks dont last long if "somebody" wants to take your bike.

Check with your insurance company to see what THEY reccomend (for a reduction in fee's maybe)

[jellywrestler]

With battery powered, hand held cutting gear available ... cheaply ... Chains/locks dont last long if "somebody" wants to take your bike.

Check with your insurance company to see what THEY reccomend (for a reduction in fee's maybe)
even cheaper than buying a grinder is become a member then you can unlock your chain and have a whole row of bikes...

[haydes55]

even cheaper than buying a grinder is become a member then you can unlock your chain and have a whole row of bikes...

doesn't work like that, that would work if there were 3 parked up and the middle one was a thief and both were chained to that one bike then they would be as secure as a bike chained around its wheel alone.

[SMOKEU]

I suggest purchasing a GPS tracker, they can be bought new for less than $150 and all you need to do is put a SIM card in it loaded with $20 of credit and you're good to go.

[Maha]

....or like they do in Wellsford.

[superman]

This idea is FAR TOO SOCIALIST!

[H00dz]

lol if they want your bike aint nothing gonna stop them but this seems a cheap way to deter the odd would be when your out away from your bat cave. I for one would be sweet for another biker to daisy chain around my lock for added security.....

[H00dz]

This idea is FAR TOO SOCIALIST!

LOL true true

[Matt_TG]

So the first rider in a parking area loops the chain through his wheel and nothing else, hoping that another member of the sect comes along and chains up to the bike. Brilliant! :facepalm:

[sleemanj]

Mmm, yeah, so you come along, lock your bike's chain through the chain of another bike.

That's all good, but when you're away and the other guy comes back, unlocks his chain and buggers off, your bike is now not locked to anything.

So at the end of the day, this is not really any better than having a chain through your wheel or disc lock, in'it.

If you think your bike might get nicked, I don't think this is much of a protection.

[haydes55]

and how long til a complete idiot joins up and locks their bike by wrapping his/her chain through the other bikes wheel.:facepalm: you just know some idiot will do it.

[Flip]

Lucky only smart people ride bikes.

I think it is a good idea for folk who commute in the big pond.

[H00dz]

I thought KB members were an intelligent bunch BUT ALAS I see I was Wrong:facepalm:

Let me explain how I think the process is supposed to work:

Your forced to park in an area that affords no suitable tie down points: say at an event ie rugby game etc.... so you disk lock a chain as per normal hoping for the best. Someone else comes along on their bike and sees your bike alone so then wraps his chain around your loop thereby using yours as a sort of temporary anchor and effectively making it more difficult for some criminal to come along and hoist your bike onto their getaway vehicle.....sure its not foolproof but then nothing is really LOL

I'm still down with the idea <_< but i can see by the responses that its a fizzer:crybaby: I guess superman was right this is too socialist for us :bleh:

[Berries]

Nah, sounded like a very good idea until you mentioned rugby.

[Pseudonym]

I suggest purchasing a GPS tracker, they can be bought new for less than $150 and all you need to do is put a SIM card in it loaded with $20 of credit and you're good to go.

Like the one I have…
Finding a place for it can be a bitch, and wiring it up will require a bit of knowledge of your electrical system too.
Worth it though as it also has an S.O.S button encase disaster strikes.

[SMOKEU]

Like the one I have…
Finding a place for it can be a bitch, and wiring it up will require a bit of knowledge of your electrical system too.
Worth it though as it also has an S.O.S button encase disaster strikes.

I've seen ones that are really easy to wire up, just connect it to the bike battery. Some of them have a built in battery so if the bike battery becomes disconnected the back up battery can still send a signal.

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/handheld-portable-mini-gsm-gprs-gps-vehicle-tracker-black-72133

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/gps-gsm-gprs-tracker-for-personal-remote-positioning-29284

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-multi-function-gsm-gprs-gps-vehicle-tracker-black-66674

There are plenty more of them on here http://s.dealextreme.com/search/gps+vehicle+tracker and remember that DX has free world wide shipping.

[Madness]

Have you got one on your TS185 bro? :lol:

[H00dz]

All your suggestions are common sense but theoritically this would cost next to nothing but sticker saying its ok to lock your bike to mine.

[speights_bud]

It's only gay if your locks touch right? :rolleyes:

[whowhatwhere]

I signed up to that in the UK but never came across another bike in the scheme.

[ICE180]

forget a chain its to big and heavy

this is kiwi made
http://www.grip-lock.com/Grip-Locks/

[DrunkenMistake]

I personally think this would be a great idea, to have these in all bike parks, so you supply your own chain and away you go.

Its called the Y anchor
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The Y Anchor
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The Y anchor after fitting
http://www.yanchor.com/fittingt.html

[actungbaby]

Yes and dont leave you cable lock around your front wheel then take of and fall of in front of your boss
on the gravel car park.. not that i did that at all noo... only the once

i rekon in light my exp the lock through the disc is better though harder to spot and dont want shattered disc rooter no that wrong rotor hiting me in the mans area it might be glowing and hot. the disc rotor i mean gezzzz... dam it


Hi there

Has this thread been done???

what a great idea

http://www.lock2lock.co.uk/

Do we have this in NZ???

[actungbaby]

Oh heck know i just read this finally and no... i get blame for someone esle falling of in front my boss

no no it wont do stealing my thunder

interlocking are....parts good grief "what next "flying brake rotors ever where glowing and smoking man parts

i got stop smoking the herbal incence hehe and havent even started am laughing so much right know...

:eek:


Hi there

Has this thread been done???

what a great idea

http://www.lock2lock.co.uk/

Do we have this in NZ???

[actungbaby]

yes and then u discovery you been big boobie and walked of from work left your bike there and your
looking for it after you come out the plaza and shouting theif thief mongel @### bring back my bike
Then go to work all hot bothered and sitting where u left it.. oh the embarsrment if that.... happned so somone i know
not me of course

i cant even keep 20 dollars on my own phone let alone on tha tand my wife whould fit me with gps and watch dot going around
shops summon me home stop me spending anything...aghhhhh

Like the one I have…
Finding a place for it can be a bitch, and wiring it up will require a bit of knowledge of your electrical system too.
Worth it though as it also has an S.O.S button encase disaster strikes.

[actungbaby]

our own chain and away you go.

yes umm dont you feel you going bit overboard here away i go alright me the bike half the car park..

i choudint go back for years.. least say there that prize @### u know one that made that crater somone drove hi audi tt into last week
look that chain in second picture huge looks weights ten ton

why not leave bike so low petrol it run out down the street then bash round the head with choclate pudding
Its called the Y anchor
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The Y Anchor
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The Y anchor after fitting
http://www.yanchor.com/fittingt.html[/QUOTE]

[actungbaby]

yes this is me .. its me proof and stop your bike rolling forward on the side stand great is it expesive
i think want put on the clutch lever though save your seals on brakes
and in unlikey even u roar of and do motogp impression in front some pretty ladys


forget a chain its to big and heavy

this is kiwi made
http://www.grip-lock.com/Grip-Locks/

[Virago]

our own chain and away you go.

yes umm dont you feel you going bit overboard here away i go alright me the bike half the car park..

i choudint go back for years.. least say there that prize @### u know one that made that crater somone drove hi audi tt into last week
look that chain in second picture huge looks weights ten ton

why not leave bike so low petrol it run out down the street then bash round the head with choclate pudding
Its called the Y anchor...

Does anyone here speak Gibberish? Translation required, please. :confused:

[Jay GTI]

All your suggestions are common sense but theoritically this would cost next to nothing but sticker saying its ok to lock your bike to mine.

You don't seem to understand. This is a simple idea that requires almost no effort from people who want to make life as difficult as possible for bike thieves. Plenty of smart people on here will tell you how dumb that is.

[pritch]

Across the road from where I work there are four bike parking spaces. Bikes tend to stay there all day while people are at work. The lock to lock idea would work well in a place like that, and there are probably many such around the country.

I get the impression from reading BIKE that the UK has numbers of full time professional bike thieves. The problem appears to be worse than here. On the odd occasion the thieves do get caught, the Justice system releases them to resume business with only minimal delay and inconvenience.

[p.dath]

With battery powered, hand held cutting gear available ... cheaply ... Chains/locks dont last long if "somebody" wants to take your bike.

Check with your insurance company to see what THEY reccomend (for a reduction in fee's maybe)

+1. Even using manual operated bolt cutters most "chain" style locks can be severed within 30s. They just don't stop any semi-determined criminal.

[FJRider]

+1. Even using manual operated bolt cutters most "chain" style locks can be severed within 30s. They just don't stop any semi-determined criminal.

At my age (over 25) insurance costs the same as a GOOD security system.

You may not get the bike back ... but you can get another ...

[caspernz]

Disc lock is all I've used for some years when parked away from work (behind security fencing) or at home (in garage). It helps that I've got a rice burner that is past its prime...:(

[FJRider]

... It helps that I've got a rice burner that is past its prime...:(

Mine never did ... just got older ... :innocent:

[H00dz]

Does anyone here speak Gibberish? Translation required, please. :confused:

i understood this fine WOW i didnt know i could speak Gibberish, i wonder what other super powers i haVe!!!

[H00dz]

You don't seem to understand. This is a simple idea that requires almost no effort from people who want to make life as difficult as possible for bike thieves. Plenty of smart people on here will tell you how dumb that is.

ok i think you don't think this is a good idea :2guns: i think???

[Conquiztador]

Yep, I do see merit in this. Clearly a "professional bike thief" is hard to stop. But the "opportunist bike thief" could easily be discouraged by this daisy chain approach. And to the nay-sayers, if you park your bike somewhere and there is nobody elses bike there, you are no worse of if you are part of this. But once a second bike turns up you are on to a winner.

[TrentNz]

best way to keep your bike safe at home? get a bull mastiff.
but away from home, i think the government needs to install lock down points in car parks, and you'd just need the fuckn biggest chain you can get and a big butty padlock. still may not work but its better then nothing.

[awa355]

You are all forgetting one important point, The main disadvantage of this locking bikes together!!

Coming back to your bike and finding a Honda PACIFIC chained to your beast. Especially, if its your home town and people you know are watching. :nono::nono:

[ajturbo]

who would bother to chain a Honda Pacific ???

[awa355]

who would bother to chain a Honda Pacific ???



I can just see "Gripper" returning to his hog to find a note on his seat

"Dear fellow biker, Mandy and I wont be long, We're looking for matching cardigans. Thought 'Paccy', our lovely Honda would be safe locked to your gorgous motorcycle. Yours Affectionately, Justin.

[H00dz]

Yep, I do see merit in this. Clearly a "professional bike thief" is hard to stop. But the "opportunist bike thief" could easily be discouraged by this daisy chain approach. And to the nay-sayers, if you park your bike somewhere and there is nobody elses bike there, you are no worse of if you are part of this. But once a second bike turns up you are on to a winner.

Finally from out of the darkness comes the single voice of reason I was hoping for??:headbang:

[Geordie_Biker6]

I completely understand this and think its a great idea..... In the U.K., where the company is from, and its intended use. There are a lot more bikes back home compared to NZ, and like here, they tend to all park together, only theres a hell of a lot more of them. However this system would only work if 99% of people were members, otherwise you pull up to park your bike in the last in a row of 40 in the city centre somewhere and only the one in the middle is a member. Bugger carrying a chain that long around. But still with the bikes linked, a disc lock, immobiliser and gps tracker, thats gotta be a hell of a deterrent.

[H00dz]

I completely understand this and think its a great idea..... In the U.K., where the company is from, and its intended use. There are a lot more bikes back home compared to NZ, and like here, they tend to all park together, only theres a hell of a lot more of them. However this system would only work if 99% of people were members, otherwise you pull up to park your bike in the last in a row of 40 in the city centre somewhere and only the one in the middle is a member. Bugger carrying a chain that long around. But still with the bikes linked, a disc lock, immobiliser and gps tracker, thats gotta be a hell of a deterrent.

That makes three !!! now World Domination

[mick56]

+1. Even using manual operated bolt cutters most "chain" style locks can be severed within 30s. They just don't stop any semi-determined criminal.

hello from the uk mate, what you need is some good old british engineering, a yanchor stuck in concrete on the garage floor,( if you dont have one,your driveway or path will do) an almax uber chain,( you wont cut that at all!) a squire ss65sc padlock and a zena xx15 disclock/alarm,then you can sleep easy like i do. check out these products, they are the best you can buy, all the best, mick.

[ruaphu]

....or like they do in Wellsford.

Yep, plus 1 here. Oh if you add the bad tempered dog (or cat if your from the latte set) to the mix, it's perfect cos ya know when some bugger is out there due to the amount of noise (typically from the person who has just lost a chunk of his anatomy)

[iranana]

+1. Even using manual operated bolt cutters most "chain" style locks can be severed within 30s. They just don't stop any semi-determined criminal.

If you have a crappy chain, yeah. If you get a decent chain you'd have to use some huge bolt cutters to break it (highly conspicuous and not easy to carry), and if you used a battery powered angle grinder or something similar it'd make a lot of noise. Only stupid or extremely brazen thieves would stick around that long. Of course, this doesn't stop them from just picking up your bike and chucking it in a van. Just make your bike a pain in the arse to steal and a bitch to start.

[imdying]

Yep, plus 1 here. Oh if you add the bad tempered dog (or cat if your from the latte set) to the mix, it's perfect cos ya know when some bugger is out there due to the amount of noise (typically from the person who has just lost a chunk of his anatomy)Using your best mate to guard a mere motorcycle is a shitty thing to do. I'll just toss some mince rolled in broken glass over the fence, he'll gobble it, and then next week, I have no dog to worry about.