Stolen bikes!

[jtzzr]

[QUOTE=Mom;1832954]So you feel your ride is safe? Is it where you live maybe?

Reasonably ,A cop lives at the back and the old fella next door is home most of the time ,but there`s always that nagging in the back of your that it is`nt safe.

The old Bird may not be the fastest or the prettiest but it`s MINE and I just wanna try and keep it that way.Hence the camera going in.

How have ya been MOM? And that guy you`re married to?

[mnkyboy]

I really don't see why people get so wound up over stolen shit.

For me it's just a bike - sure i love riding it - but whether its my black one or something else its only a bike. I can't bring myself to give it a nickname or invest any emotional energy into it. I'm insured if it got stolen but if it did I'd only be annoyed that I couldn't ride.

Maybe I'm just a heartless bastard.

[LilSel]

When my bike got 'half' stolen... they had to pick it up and carry it either over the waist height fence or over 4 parked cars to get it down the road to where they were disturbed... only had the steering lock on as my other half hadnt put the oxford on even tho I took it over n said 'while your borrowing my bike, make sure you lock it up' lol... I didnt have insurance so I was very lucky they didnt get it onto the trailer before they were interrupted & took off. Glad she moved from that dodgy place & into my safe neck of the woods

Pretty much if scum want to steal something they will... regardless of how much security you have, where there is a will there is a way & it seems the low lives have all the will in the world to steal something worth a fair whack that isnt theirs.

Here at home, my bike is in the garage, no way to get it out past dad's xr8 ute & my xlt ute in the driveway at night without moving both of them first & then there is also getting past our two 40kg+ dogs

[Mikkel]

I really don't see why people get so wound up over stolen shit.

For me it's just a bike - sure i love riding it - but whether its my black one or something else its only a bike. I can't bring myself to give it a nickname or invest any emotional energy into it. I'm insured if it got stolen but if it did I'd only be annoyed that I couldn't ride.

Maybe I'm just a heartless bastard.

No no, I'm exactly the same. Except from the mean greenie... would be hard pressed to be able to ever replace that if it got stolen. Not that it is worth a lot even though I'm pouring a lot of money into it, just aren't many of them around.

[slimjim]

yea.. have still use the forklift tower chain..that i've had since my dad made a huge bolt-plate that holds bike at night.34yrs had this.four different garages later and its still holding the bike.had my dog killed while someone or a group tried to uplift the dyna-glide,but they couldn't cut through the floor chain.yet i must admit ..like when on a poker run with different groups, i like so many other riders leave the key in the bike along side with the helmets..so a theif could steal any model of bike..if game enough..now insurance cover will cover bike loss..no longer wish to confront loss of family pet for a bike..

[CB ARGH]

If you were in a cvarpark and heard an alarm go off, what are the chances of you bothering to look around and see what's happening?

Yeahp, very low.

Bastard thieves.

[ManDownUnder]

• Don't assume "it only happens to other"
• Do take reasonable precaution
• Do get insurance

As someone else said - if they want it bad enough - they'll take it. It's amasing what a well prepared enginerring mind can get around in about 5 mins flat.

The only thing you can really do is make it a less attractive target so they move on, and cover your butt financially (Insurance).

[vgcspares]

I have a plan (so far unfulfilled) to install a hideously loud siren and smoke generator. I got as far as checking at Jaycar but all they had was one that would have taken an age to fill the garage with smoke - anyone know where I can get a smoke bomb I can set off with an elctrical trigger ?

... and yes I know it will be me who ultimately sets it all off by mistake

[Al]

We live on a 40 acre block 100km south of Darwin and the little township is called Batchelor, about 9km from home...
We do not lock anything, if someone can be arsed to travel out to the property, good on them! We also have a lot of neighbours who are busy on their blocks, so any strange person / vehicle is treated suspiciously!

I miss the city, but have a lot more freedom here....

[Waxxa]

It's all very well having ground anchors at home or garages to put the bike in at night...but what do you do when you are out and about on your bike.

Very difficult to stop a determined bunch of scum pulling up along side your bike and lift it into a van. Most public will think that the 'owner' is picking up his 'broken down' bike, alarm sounding or not.

I hate these scum...

[MarkH]

So I am weird for parking mine in the lounge ?

You would only weird for parking your bike in the lounge if that was the weirdest thing you did, making it your defining weirdness. Is that really the weirdest thing about you? C'mon fess up.

[madbikeboy]

I really don't see why people get so wound up over stolen shit.

For me it's just a bike - sure i love riding it - but whether its my black one or something else its only a bike. I can't bring myself to give it a nickname or invest any emotional energy into it. I'm insured if it got stolen but if it did I'd only be annoyed that I couldn't ride.

Maybe I'm just a heartless bastard.

Or it's because you're not riding the right bike...

[MarkH]

The only thing you can really do is make it a less attractive target so they move on.

The only problem is that we can't have nice stuff because someone might nick it, I don't find this acceptable. I should be able to have whatever nice stuff I am willing to fork out my hard earned to purchase without some low life tea leaf taking it from me. If only the police could put as many man hours into stopping theft as they do issuing tickets for driving infringements.

Besides I don't want to ride a Hyosung.

[madbikeboy]

You would only weird for parking your bike in the lounge if that was the weirdest thing you did, making it your defining weirdness. Is that really the weirdest thing about you? C'mon fess up.

Over the last few weeks while I contemplated being single, the one really great thing that I realised was that I could park the bikes in the lounge. It would have necessitated losing the telly and the couches, but actually, I'm ok with that.

[GSXR Trace]

Do you people really think it is wise posting up what you have your bikes locked up with... if theifs are getting smarter, they could probably put your general location and bike together to figure out who you are if htey really wanted to... then they would know what to bring to get rid of your locks etc and take you bike. I dunno, but if they are getting smarter, it really doesn't seem that much of a stretch.