attempted theft today !

[Steve398]

Better get my arse in gear !

Got the bits made and ready to weld

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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)

Nicely done, but I failed miserably in woodwork too!

They could indeed cut the centre stand off, but it’s just one more thing to make life difficult for them and it’s an easy cheap mod.

 

[dr nosh]

Nicely done, but I failed miserably in woodwork too!

They could indeed cut the centre stand off, but it’s just one more thing to make life difficult for them and it’s an easy cheap mod.

Scrotes could cut the stand off, or do lots of other thing to nick the bike, but its all about 'layers of security', designed to slow them down. The very fact that the bike will not push of the stand will probably confuse them immediately.

 

[twg1]

Well , the sec team have found footage which shows a reg , i said well its probably a nicked bike . Then they told me they have cctv when they came back and the reg was covered over .

They cant be that dum can they ??

The team next door are checking their cctv to get a better image hopefully.

 

[twg1]

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.

Just been looking at these , going to get one for the gs and the 890 rally

 

[twg1]

A lot of these ground anchor, put in a bike safe suggestions, will hinge on who owns the freehold of the parking area and / or manages it on behalf of the freeholder. Unless it’s a private enterprise, along with some fairly understanding owners, the answer is usually a flat “No”. The same often applies to rented flats, whose tenants share a multi-occupancy car park or garage.

Have been looking at how to get round that in a previous role when we were a large number of parking spaces . My idea was to cast essentially a concrete beam on ply to fix the ground anchors to that way the anchors would be off the ground making it harder to attack the chain . But there would be no physical work to the existing building fabric.

 

[Wapping]

Have been looking at how to get round that in a previous role when we were a large number of parking spaces . My idea was to cast essentially a concrete beam on ply to fix the ground anchors to that way the anchors would be off the ground making it harder to attack the chain . But there would be no physical work to the existing building fabric.

That seems like a decent idea and a reasonable proposal to put to the owner / manager of the parking area.

I guess that I would set the anchors into the side of the block, by mounting them in the block’s upper surface, but then turning the block through 90 degrees.

Why?

If the anchor is at the top, the chain will, if only for s short length, be very close to the block, sufficient maybe to make it easier to attack. If though, the anchor is now on the block’s side, it will be hanging between the anchor point and the bike.

 

[twg1]

That seems like a decent idea and a reasonable proposal to put to the owner / manager of the parking area.

I guess that I would set the anchors into the side of the block, by mounting them in the block’s upper surface, but then turning the block through 90 degrees.

Why?

If the anchor is at the top, the chain will, if only for s short length, be very close to the block, sufficient maybe to make it easier to attack. If though, the anchor is now on the block’s side, it will be hanging between the anchor point and the bike.