WARNING - Akld, West - Bike thieves... caught stealing my bike!!

[deanohit]

Sounds like a builders trailer with a concrete encrusted wheelbarrow... ring the local placemakers and ask them if they know any builders who come in in a blue ute....

Shit man, thats not a bad idea, could call a few of the hardware stores.
Good work with the 4x2 aswell.

[peasea]

Yip, Westies with a bit more money.

and impeccable morals..............

[peasea]

jafa=(just another fucken aucklander)

jawa=just a wanganui-ite arseole

hahahahahahaha

[Pancakes]

I know if your bike gets targeted you can't do a whole heap about it, especially if you don't have a lock up garage or shed etc. We just moved and I haven't liked having my bike sitting in the drive just waiting for some kids with a skateboard to roll off with it (and am guessing no-ones gonna target Hyosungs?) Have made an anchor I can bolt the bike too for a bit of piece of mind. Was gonna use stainless bolts and chain but 1) want them for something else and 2) it will be easyier to grind the normal coachbolts flat what we move, buggered if I spend a grinding disc and a couple of hours on SS ones! Also means that with a $2 shop tie-down I can hoist the rear wheel off the deck easy peasy to clean/wax the chain.

[Spuds1234]

I know if your bike gets targeted you can't do a whole heap about it, especially if you don't have a lock up garage or shed etc. We just moved and I haven't liked having my bike sitting in the drive just waiting for some kids with a skateboard to roll off with it (and am guessing no-ones gonna target Hyosungs?) Have made an anchor I can bolt the bike too for a bit of piece of mind. Was gonna use stainless bolts and chain but 1) want them for something else and 2) it will be easyier to grind the normal coachbolts flat what we move, buggered if I spend a grinding disc and a couple of hours on SS ones! Also means that with a $2 shop tie-down I can hoist the rear wheel off the deck easy peasy to clean/wax the chain.

Arnt those wire cables really easy to saw through with a hack saw. Ie they can be cut in under a minute or two?

[Pancakes]

Nup. you can cut them but it's a bitch. The cables mash up in bolt cutters too. The esiest point to hit would be the chain but this isn't bulletproof, it's a $3 5 minute job that'll deter opportunists. Soon there will be a mercury switch and wire loop hooked up to a battery backed up car horn. Tilting the bike up or unplugging/cutting the little wire will set the horn off and with the right relay it will stay on! That'll have them running, when the bikes here I'm home anyway but will all help I guess.

[Swoop]

...and wire loop hooked up to a battery backed up car horn. Tilting the bike up or unplugging/cutting the little wire will set the horn off and with the right relay it will stay on!

Why bother? Put 240 volts through a decent wire.
Fuckers deserve it if they try and steal your stuff.

[The Pastor]

how do you install ground anchors? Do you just cut a large square in the concrete and pour new concrete in then place the anchor in?

[skidMark]

Don't you mean chocolates?

no....beers.....it's west auckland man.

[LilSel]

I've got a new windshield for the zzr now...

still need to find a left hand mirror & front cowling....

anybody have any of these bits???

[skidMark]

why wuld u lock it...i thought all u westies had guns.

[Lteejay]

Just got woken up to FB's flatmate saying 'someone's trying to steal your bike, I caught them n its down the rd'...

Fucken pricks

[vifferman]

how do you install ground anchors? Do you just cut a large square in the concrete and pour new concrete in then place the anchor in?

It depends on the type of anchor - some commercial ones are designed to be bolted to a concrete floor using appropriately secure fasteners. But a ground anchor can be anything securely fixed to the ground that you can secure your bike to. A large boulder, dead car/bike, a building, telephone pole, meteorite, comatose overweight drunken politician, 1970s hard-drive, the engine block from a Harley Davidson, a ship's propeller, a power pylon, Waiheke Island, a dead parrot, a sleeping gang member....
The possibilities are endless.

[Pancakes]

how do you install ground anchors? Do you just cut a large square in the concrete and pour new concrete in then place the anchor in?

I use coachbolts cos of the dome tops, no hex for putting a spanner on, not that a spanner would move them. Get a masonry bit and drill a snug hole so the bolts need to be hammered in. Drill no deeper than the bolt are long. These are 65mm bolts so over 55mm is in the concrete. I used concrete and steel compound but most 2 pack epoxy glues will be fine. Get all the dust out by blowing through some oxy tube, try not to dribble in the hole. Make up the glue and suck it into a syringe (or straw if your a cheap-ass), get it into the hole. Tap the bolt in 10mm at the most then add little bits of the rest of the glue all up and down the sides of the bolt as you tap it in the rest of the way. It'll be fricken strong!!

Ideally use stainless for a more permanent anchor.

[Pancakes]

why wuld u lock it...i thought all u westies had guns.

Yeah but we only have the guns out when we've been drinking so whether it's to open the gunsafe or aim half-cut we need something to slow them down a bit. Drunk westies v.s kids on P what an un-fair fight, it's like slow-motion land! the matrix, I need all the help I can get!