Bike stolen in Herne Bay, Auckland (4 March)

[HungusMaximist]

They found my bike back, but it was involved in a fatal accident.

Is the fatal for the rider or your bike?

Or both?

Hope you have insurance!

[Dargor]

(7.25 am on saturday.. what are they tinking!!)

Its not Saturday.

They had good an bad news (I bet they say that all the time), They found my bike back, but it was involved in a fatal accident. Some corner they took too fast and could not handle.

This crash perhaps.

[homer]

I don't think it's gotten to the point where you can't park your bike in town anymore.

But just to be sure if you have flash bike, don't park it in plain view and at least have a d lock/cable lock and lock it on to something solid, and combine it with a disc lock. Steering wheel lock it, flick the kill switch on and then chuck your bike in 1st.

Take precautions as much as possible and keep in mind that if you can afford a $14,000 Bike, $30 bucks for a disc lock and $100-200 bucks for an alarm isn't that much. But you'll be surprised that alot of us out there don't even bother with a disc lock.

mine sits in a locked garage
i lock the stearing and put a disc lock on the rear "a cheepie" but its still a deterent .
If we go away i make sure i cable thru the wheels and lock to the floor as well .
I also lock the front 2 doors so they dont open

all up theres 5 lots of security
steering , disc ,cable ,doors of the shed , added locking of the tilt doors.

tilt doors only need a wire hooked under them to pull the steel wire that opens them .
Should i do any more

[Forest]

Latest news. I got called by the Northshore Police this morning (7.25 am on saturday.. what are they tinking!!), They had good an bad news (I bet they say that all the time), They found my bike back, but it was involved in a fatal accident. Some corner they took too fast and could not handle.

I asked if they know if the rider was the one who stole it but they were still investigating it. so watch this space.

Thanks for look it out all... you can remove the postit notes with the rego from your speedo

Justice has been served!!

Hope your insurance company doesn't give you too much grief.

[barty5]

just saw the news on this they missed the fact that the bike was stolen called it his bike. looks like he put it through a brick wall.

[Reckless]

oh btw, get yourself one of these things...

Disco you better weld the nuts on the Dynabolts to the plate. Or the nut to the threaded bit in the centre. Coupla small welds with an arc or Mig will make that 100%.
It doesn't look like you can bur or round them off to prevent the plate from being removed, not enough thread showing for that.
Just an Idea!!

[offrd]

Justice has been served!!

Hope your insurance company doesn't give you too much grief.

For sure!

[Disco Dan]

Disco you better weld the nuts on the Dynabolts to the plate. Or the nut to the threaded bit in the centre. Coupla small welds with an arc or Mig will make that 100%.
It doesn't look like you can bur or round them off to prevent the plate from being removed, not enough thread showing for that.
Just an Idea!!

Yes, picture was taken mear minutes from it being installed. I have tightned the bolts more and welded the tops since then!!!

Picture was indicative of the security method rather than my own measures being incomplete!


Cheers for pointing it out though!

[bugjuice]

karma's a bitch..

[SixPackBack]

oh btw, get yourself one of these things...

Dan that 'aint gunna stop a determined thief. Would take me 20 secs to bust that puppy.

[SixPackBack]

I think its more for the "theft by convenience" burglers as opposed to determined professional bike theives... nuttin stops dem fellas.

Dunno about thieving Speedie but from an Engineering design viewpoint I give it a 'fail'

[Donor]

From the bottom of this page of the Herald...

"The 27 year-old man who died after the motorbike he was riding slammed into a wall on the North Shore was Graham Livemore of Beach Haven.

Inspector Les Paterson said the motorbike - a high-performance model reported stolen from an Auckland address this month - had earlier been seen speeding."

Oh the irony of the name...

[Kickaha]

Dunno about thieving Speedie but from an Engineering design viewpoint I give it a 'fail'

How would you improve it?

[kave]

It's a black Kawasaki ZZR600 '92. Done high mileage (over 90kkm) and has got quite some cracks and scratches in the fairing.

Inspector Les Paterson said the motorbike - a high-performance model reported stolen from an Auckland address this month

Are you sure it was your bike in that accident? The police seem to think it was a high performance model that the thief was riding, and you would be hard pressed to describe a bike that is a 16 year old tourer as high performance. It'd be like calling a 1992 Holden Berlina a sports car.

[BiK3RChiK]

From the bottom of this page of the Herald...

"The 27 year-old man who died after the motorbike he was riding slammed into a wall on the North Shore was Graham Livemore of Beach Haven.

Inspector Les Paterson said the motorbike - a high-performance model reported stolen from an Auckland address this month - had earlier been seen speeding."

Oh the irony of the name...

Irony indeed!