Bike theft - What do you do to stop it?

[F5 Dave]

People stole a mate's Rover 2000. Yes joyriders will take anything to thrash or get home from a party. Make it too hard & they move on.

[babyblade250rr]

overall take as much precaution as possible possible when parking your two wheeler park it where alot of public are around all the time a theif won't try pinching it as much as if it were parked in an alleyway with no one around

[Macktheknife]

All been said really, basic locks are best, visible and audible if tampered with. As for the rest, that is what insurance is for, don't stress about it.
I have never had a bike stolen, and don't expect I will have either, but as others have said, if they really want it, they will get it.

[F5 Dave]

In your new place you have to look at it like a thief. That’s where most honest people get blind to the weaknesses. One landlord didn’t want me putting extra locks on as you’d never pull the door up against the motor. - Yeah sure buddy, if you didn’t want to wreck the door, but as a thief that isn’t just not a consideration, it’s a positive! I did anyway.

You only have to yank it up enough to pull it out of the lockstops on a roller or get a small child to crawl under to go open it.

Windows are easy to break & with a heavy jacket or some tape who is going to hear it (or respond). Many burglars use the tools they find around them, bits of half-brick in the garden or that ornament outside the front door.

Don’t store your keys on a keyring or the drawer by the front door, that gives them access to your garage if they break in the house & the keys to come back.

Alarms are quite cheap & with more people getting them the ones without are more of a target.

[janno]

Thanks for all the replies - heaps of good ideas I'll be putting in to practice.

[Goblin]

People stole a mate's Rover 2000. Yes joyriders will take anything to thrash.

Dunno what joy anyone would find in a Rover 2000....different strokes eh.

[Hitcher]

How to stop bike theft? Park your bike next to one that's 5% easier to knick than yours.

[scracha]

They should start checking frame numbers, engine numbers and datatags/alpha-dots at trackdays, races, hill-climbs, mx-meets, etc.

[Pancakes]

Don't have any extra locks at work, park it in the open tho and everyone there is always out for ciggies and know's it's mine, also park in a line of 10+ bikes next to a Hayabusa normally.

Have just used Chem-set to put a bolt and bolt hanger in the garage floor and got a cable lock, they take ages to get through quietly and the steel would be noisy with a grinder. Not impossible to take at all but theives are lazy, pocket and go, not normally keen to stay around to get snapped, unless your getting targetted them what can you do? I know a guy who has had tons of stereo head units etc taken, recon he uses the minimum needed to hold it in now so the bastards don't wreck everything else in the process.

Theives are lazy, thats why they are pinching your crap not at work. Make it take time and attract attention and cross your fingers.

[0arbreaka]

Ive got a disc lock, a oxford bike chain and a fuckin thick steel eye bolt anchord in concrete to stop them, its not impossible but it makes it a fair ammount harder for them, and if that fails theres also "I thought he was going to kill me officer, I was just trying to protect myself"....

[Pancakes]

Massive lock is good but not really if they can carry it to a van and work on the lock/strip the locked parts at their place. Glue a bolt in your garage floor.

[Hitcher]

They should start checking frame numbers, engine numbers and datatags/alpha-dots at trackdays, races, hill-climbs, mx-meets, etc.

"They"? Sooner them than us.

[SARGE]

make it 30 seconds harder to steal then the neighbors bike..


i personally use my stunning good looks, even temper and 'pillar-of-the-community' reputation to keep mine in the carport.. not all are so blessed as i however

[Winter]

I park next to expensive looking bikes, and leave the bike dirty. disc lock on.

At home, locked in my garage on a bizare angle (sideways),
with the steeringlock on so you can't push it out, disc lock on, padlocked door, car parked infront of door so door can't open anyway.

[Holy Roller]

Its only the Harleys that get nicked here. My old bike an XV500 sat outside for years, no carport or garage. New Bike is in the garage at the new house.