How do you lock your bike up... suggestions appreciated

[Waylander]

Wouldn't take long for the savings to pay for the alarm yeah?

Yea, easily.

Bikes must get stolen a lot (and alarms must be highly effective) with that sort of drop.

Not really a good thief will either disable the system or ignore it completly and just load he bike in a van. The insurance companies see it as an attempt by you to make it less likely to be stolen and give you a break. Same as they would if you always parked in somewhere where it can be locked down or watched over all the time.

[ManDownUnder]

Right... If you keep your bike in the garage the whole time, or if you park it up only to walk into a shop, or to sit down within sight of your bike; how do you go about locking it up for those times where you anticipate leaving it out for more than a few hours. Not over night... Just for a few hours e.g. while you're at work during the day

If I'm away from the bike for any period of time, I'd like to be able to stick a chain lock on the bike... but have nowhere to carry the bloody thing. The area under the GSX seat is certainly big enough for a disk lock (so long as it didn't fall through onto the road during travel) but is way to small to fit any kind of decent chain lock. I'd rather not carry a back pack around just to avoid these situations.

Disk lock's are great... so long as you don't forget they're on there and mangle your own bike They're also a little less visible to a potential thief who may manage to mangle your bike by not realising it's on there either... yet still trying to make off with the thing.

Has anyone got any suggestions? The must be a few people out there that have come up with a good compromise!

I have it Insured, and put the steering lock on, leave it in gear and call it a day.
Nothing more than that... and so far so good.
I'm lucky in that I have secure parking at work and home (lock up garaging in each case) which helps a lot...

MDU

[Lou Girardin]

Disc lock if it's out of sight, until I get the alarm fitted.
Park it in front of the car in the garge at night.
Disc lock and cable lock at night when touring.
Paranoid? You bet. Working for car security co's do that to you.

[FEINT]

mine is parked in garage locked up. If I ride my 636, i don't leave it out of my sight, if I ride my CB400 I leave it anywhere.

I usually try to park in a car park where there is security etc.

Disc Lock
Steering Lock
Grip Lock
Leave in Gear
Turn off FUEL (remember to switch back when leaving)

The new sports bikes with underseat cans have NO storage, so pretty much I have to carry a grip lock in the jacket.

[notme]

Another good thing to do is have a flatmate with a cruiser - if like SlashWylde they have bigarse bags on the cruiser then you have approximately one metric shitload of storage space....so you can take a long chain or cable type lock and lock the bike to each other if you're touring....or a midget in a security guard's uniform!

[Wolf]

Generally just the steering lock - used to use a D-lock as well but it was a hassle lugging it around. At work we have underground parking and security staff so that's a bonus.

[Flyingpony]

I use a bright yellow Kriptonite disc lock for the rear and ignition lock.
It's parked at night in my garage. If away from home for a few days, also disable the ignition but I won't tell you how, where or how many points. Sometimes I even get myself

Works out-of-sight parking, the bikes beside me only use ignition locks or don't bother at all and they're all bigger CC'd and more desired than my FXR150.
It will be a very dumb thief if mine gets stolen.

[LB]

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Very rarely take my bikes to work. When I do, steering lock is on and a long wire rope/padlock thingy around the back wheel and up over the pillion seat (cowling removed). We have a bike park right outside my work so I check on it several times during the day.

When we're away overnight/on holiday, we park both bikes together and lock one wheel of each together with said wire rope/padlock thingy.

Most of the time the bikes are locked in the gargre, and most of the time when we do day rides we park them where we can see them from the cafe etc.

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[Lou Girardin]

I don't lock my bike.I hide behind a nearby tree,cradling a Purdy.
Oh..The powder on the handgrips? ..Anthrax

They're a real purdy weapon!

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Try not to leave it unattended in town. But steering lock when I do. After all I have insurance. But at home it is locked down to the floor. I cut a hole in the garages concreate floor and drove a steel standard and threaded a thick bike lock around it then concreted it in. That forms the loop and then I us a bike chain on to that.

[vifferman]

I've nothing to do, so I'll chip in with my unnecessary bit'o'bollix.

My bike either lives in the gargre at home (sensors on both doors, and IR sensor on the wall), and I disk-lock it if I'm going away for a few days, or in the gargre in the gargre at work (Yes, we have a gargre, complete with door, inside the parking gargre). The latter is equipped with security doors, so it's safe, een leaving it there for a few days (which I did once, when I had a flat tyre, and another time, when I ran away from home for a few days...)

If I go anywhere else, I'm not usually parked for long, and I usually use the disk lock. I don't have one of those 'reminder thingies', as although I'm mental, I never forget to take it off before riding off. But just in case, I keep the disklock in a small bag under the seat, and when I take it out to put it on the disk, I put the keys in it, in my pocket as an aide memoir or whatever.
I've thought about getting abike alarm though, solely because my insurance excess is $1500, and I can't afford to take that kind of a hit if anything happens to the bike.

[scumdog]

Most of the time I shut the gargre door when the bikes inside, if I'm down the street I always take the key out when I park it.

I had a disc lock once but a chiropractor fixed it.

[Lou Girardin]

Most of the time I shut the gargre door when the bikes inside, if I'm down the street I always take the key out when I park it.

I had a disc lock once but a chiropractor fixed it.

You've sure got a lid on crime down there sherrif.
You wanna move up here and sort out our varmints?

[mikey]

get your starter motor an angle gring anything in it that looks imp0ortant.

now no body can steal my bike.

[Wolf]

get your starter motor an angle gring anything in it that looks imp0ortant.

now no body can steal my bike.

Don't forget to Aradite the wheels to the pavement or they'll just pick it up and biff it on the back of a ute.