Have you ever had your bike nicked, or know someone who has?

[Posh Tourer :P]

And thus they can charge what they like for it...... grrr

[pete376403]

Could you please enlighten me as to what a datatag and spyball are and what they do?

Dunno what the spyball is but I understand the datatag is an electronic id tag that is inserted inside the frame and it can be read by passing a scanner over the frame. The tag gives the details of the bike and it can be traced back to its legal owner. I also understand that it is near impossible to register a vehicle in the UK without a logbook (perhaps like our registration papers? anyone?) and the logbook has the frame/chassis number. There'd be no buying a frame from one place and a motor from another and building a bike to sell without a lot of checking. But in spite of this lots of bikes get flogged in the UK.

[Cleve]

I said yes, but actually that was in London 15 years ago when I was working as a motorcycle courier.

[FROSTY:Me]

I had my old cb360 stolen from outside my place -they gor about 150m down the road and ran outa gas.The fuel tap was knackered so I used a mower tap on top of the left carb. They even put some gas in it for me

[shandawg]

I had my '90 ZXR250 stolen from underneath my flat in Mt Eden, Ak about 18 months ago. No insurance.

Gutted

[Kwaka-Kid]

No way! crap i have mates with these whizz bang 250's that leave them outside flats etc in that general rea etc and i never thought anything of it! that sucks... well even though im all the way out here i should bring mine inside more often, definatly when im sleeping its inside anyway but i often leave it out between jobs... hmm... Wonder if it was Mt Eden Motorcycles in need of a new wrecked bike? haha! nah sorry dudes, they aint bad there. hehe

[Big Dog]

No way!

Dude I have yet to see you with a whole bike let alone one worth stealing

[Skyryder]

I had a 250 Honda stolen from our garage a few years ago by a student. Hot wired the ignition but then later in the day the cops rang and told me it was outside the polytec. I was lucky as the only damage was to the ignition. Cops seemed to think the student chickened out and may have got caught and left it for that reason. Still like to have rung the little shits neck.

Skyryder

[avgas]

That reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I bought a "Buffo" disc lock at Motomail (that was the only disc lock they had). I used to put it on the rear wheel, and two days later I forgot to take it off before riding away. After covering around three meters I heard a "clanking" noise, stopped and looked back to find the disc lock lying on the groung broken into two. It was a total waste of money...

holy shit dude....how the hell????
i warped a 7mm disc with one, and had the great oppotunity trying to get one of a mates bike when he lost the keys in his garage, hammers no, hacksaw - tried for about 5 mins got sick of it, angle grinder did it.
but these were all 10mm pin jobs. If your going to a 5mm pin the Kryptonite ones are better quality.
On another note, are kawasaki's easier to steal, or just more popular?

[Monsterbishi]

In the mid 90's I had my CB250RS stolen from outside a Mates place, we musta have almost caught them in the act, it was lightly raining, and you could see the tyre tracks on the ground until the end of the street...

As for security, I've just got a new U-Lock and disclock for my YZF, made by Magnum/Abus, they use a shaft key, and the disclock has a 14mm shaft.

They also come with 5 spare keys for each - Handy.

I avoided any of the tubular key'd locks, especially the Krypto ones, since the tubular locks they use can be picked quite easily with the barrel of a pen.

[Mase]

My 2002 TL1000R was stolen from my appartment after just 10 months. Who ever took it knew where it was as you could not see it from the road as it was in the garage furtherest from the driveway next to the car. Never to be seen again - was not very happy. Insurance company paid out without any issues.

[Coyote]

We can leave our cage unlocked out in town cause its so crap, no-one would steal it

I have had no bikes of mine stolen, but my dad keeps on telling me about his brand new XR500 that was stolen years back by some guys who had obviously bided their time till one night when my dad was really tired, he left the bike down his driveway without the padlock and chain, stolen immediately, Bastards . He then brought a second hand XR250, but is just didnt compare to the 500 :disapint:

[mini_hooks_]

my dad (hooks) had a suzuki savage 750 stolen out of on of the multi level parking zones in downtown wellington but that was about 15 years ago...

[James Deuce]

In the mid 90's I had my CB250RS stolen from outside a Mates place, we musta have almost caught them in the act, it was lightly raining, and you could see the tyre tracks on the ground until the end of the street...

As for security, I've just got a new U-Lock and disclock for my YZF, made by Magnum/Abus, they use a shaft key, and the disclock has a 14mm shaft.

They also come with 5 spare keys for each - Handy.

I avoided any of the tubular key'd locks, especially the Krypto ones, since the tubular locks they use can be picked quite easily with the barrel of a pen.

Hmmmmmm

[Biff]

I also understand that it is near impossible to register a vehicle in the UK without a logbook (perhaps like our registration papers? anyone?)

Yep. When you sell a bike, car etc in the UK the vendor has to send off a strip from the log book (V11(rego)) filling in the appropriate parts stating who they've sold it to, address etc and the buyer has to send off another strip from the log book stating that they have bought it. The buyer obviously keeping th old log book until the new one arrives.