These are small, light and another line of defence.
attempted theft today !
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I would also recommend Monimoto tracker as s a good item for around £110 and a £34 quid SIM card subscription. Just battery powered, which seem to last a good few months (around 6) and warns on the app when low power, no installation costs. Its reckoned to have vibration alert - might have called your phone when they tried the angle grinder. If I start the bike engine and have forgotten the Monimoto fob it calls my phone, or set off somewhere without it on me I get a call.
I second one of these....even if I turn the bike when on its centre stand it rings my phone!
I have the 9, good bit of kit, and rechargeable. But not recognised by the insurance companies. I got it just in case someone tampers with he bike when on the drive during the day, gives me a chance to get out there before they're off with it.
how about , don't take your expensive bike to work , buy a shitbox that looks horrible , but rides nicely ...and use that !
I've been thinking about how bike covers serve as a layer of security for what is basically just an inexpensive 'sheet'.
I guess these keep prying eyes from instantly spotting and noting what your bike is in order to attempt to steal it.
They have to approach the bike and thus make their intentions clear to any bystander by disturbing the cover and taking a peek. Anyone nosing under a bike cover would immediately attract my suspicions and allow to me raise an alarm to the owner if I knew them.
I guess these keep prying eyes from instantly spotting and noting what your bike is in order to attempt to steal it.
They have to approach the bike and thus make their intentions clear to any bystander by disturbing the cover and taking a peek. Anyone nosing under a bike cover would immediately attract my suspicions and allow to me raise an alarm to the owner if I knew them.
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Don't forget your curtain pole.
You'll need it to fend off the hammer wielding scrotes, of which there are probably more of than just the one.
When they attempted to steal my friend’s car, off his small drive, in south London. The police, the next day when they came round to look at his security camera footage, advised him to never try that idea. The yobs’ tactic is to station one of their mates by the front door. You run out in your Thomas the Tank Engine slippers and matey clocks you (more than once) with a baseball bat, a claw hammer or worse.
The other quite likely result, as the police explained, is that you have now left the front door open, whilst you grovel on the ground for your teeth.
Of course you can weigh up whether the time you spend not riding your bike, as you have a broken arm, a cracked skull or busted fingers, was actually worth it. Insurance will pay to replace your bike, far faster than the NHS will sort you out.
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Me too
At a gig at Exeter Uni
Nicked the pioneer radio from my Mini
They unlocked the car
Removed the radio
Locked it back up again
How kind !
I have one of those, which I can use on my 1600 and Himalayan.
They are arguably:
A. More effective than the steering lock, which can be broken with one sharp kick on the bars.
B. Quick to use for those “I will only be away a minute” moments, to maybe prevent a push away theft.
C. Useful as another layer of defence
D. Very easy to remove, by snapping or cutting the brake lever.
Layers of defence:
Then why is there no ability to lock the shaft drive on a GS to deter the roll it away mob? Something akin to when the steering locks so does the shaft drive.
Try dragging that lump up the road.
Why doesn’t BMW do this?
It's happened before, when said scrotes tried to nick my son's car. They dropped their screwdriver and mole grips and ran.
The effect of the end of 2 curtain poles tied together "side by side" is more than the fear of being hit by a curtain pole. Were they curtain poles? Police were rang but they didn't come, too busy having their breakfast. Not even interested in the tools they left behind.
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I know that some owners for the RT have welded an extra piece of metal to the main stand and drilled a hold in it for a pad lock.
This stops the bike being taken off the main stand unless pad lock is removed.
This stops the bike being taken off the main stand unless pad lock is removed.
Doesn’t the Cymarc fellow who makes the assorted metal pieces for GS motorcycles, offer a stand conversion, to allow the use of a padlock?
I think this would be highly effective simple because it makes it so awkward
As Wapping said it can be added by Cymarc
Main stand Security padlock Locking Lug (Modification & Refurbishment)
Our Main Stand Locking Lug provides a low key additional level of security. One small addition to your main stand provides a secure location to lock a padlock.
Yes, but only for the GSA I believe, although the idea was pinched by some of the RT forum members… but not me ‘cos it’s too much for my O-level metalwork capability and I never learnt to weld.
Better get my arse in gear !
Got the bits made and ready to weld
Little wooden pattern, 6mm Steel lug ready to weld, padlock.
It prevents the main stand folding up.
Bonus Point:
Very awkward to get a grinder to the locking pin.
(R1200RT)
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