Yep. That's the solution. That's the way to tackle bike theft.
Tin foil.
Fuck the chains and padlocks.
Tin foil.
Fuck the chains and padlocks.
Beware, your WC GSA is VERY easy to steal.....
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This also works ...
I've been doing it for years and not had a bike go missing yet
I've been doing it for years and not had a bike go missing yet
Thinking about the OP's assertion that the vehicle's electrics were awakened by the thief, there would perhaps have been no need for the thief to break the steering lock.
On the 1600 at least, the central black button above the BMW badge on the handlbars is the 'ignition and steering lock control'; a short press and the bike can be started using the conventional starter / kill switch button by the twist grip. A longer press disengages the steering lock first and only then the bike can be started from the kill switch.
As the thieves went to some (limited) trouble to break the steering lock - and as I assume they are bright enough to know whether or not it needs to be broken - I can only conclude that the widget only enlivens the ignition circuitry, nothing else. Or the thieves broke the lock uncessarily; no big deal in the scheme of things if the bike is to be broken up for sale.
Another possible alternative is that the thieves needed to break the lock as the bike was still electronically dead and immobilised. Just like the bike in the video clip, maybe it just looked like it was ridden away under its own power?
The full video of the St Paul's theft may well hold all the answers.... YouTube is calling.....
On the 1600 at least, the central black button above the BMW badge on the handlbars is the 'ignition and steering lock control'; a short press and the bike can be started using the conventional starter / kill switch button by the twist grip. A longer press disengages the steering lock first and only then the bike can be started from the kill switch.
As the thieves went to some (limited) trouble to break the steering lock - and as I assume they are bright enough to know whether or not it needs to be broken - I can only conclude that the widget only enlivens the ignition circuitry, nothing else. Or the thieves broke the lock uncessarily; no big deal in the scheme of things if the bike is to be broken up for sale.
Another possible alternative is that the thieves needed to break the lock as the bike was still electronically dead and immobilised. Just like the bike in the video clip, maybe it just looked like it was ridden away under its own power?
The full video of the St Paul's theft may well hold all the answers.... YouTube is calling.....
...this might be to simple for some folk but you could disable the bike using something that has thwarted many a GSer over the years - leave the kill switch in kill.
Are they still nicking WC clocks too?
That game, that nearly ended many a love affair with the awesome steeds, appears to have stopped. On these pages at least. Now it's been ramped up to nick the entire bike.
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On the LC, the kill switch IS the starter button, automatically defeats it when you press the starter.
Hate being the guy on the outside of the inside joke, so I have to ask - Awesome Steed = WC? Or is it all 1200s? Or all GSs?
Awesome steed is any bike youare currently hooning around on or indeed bimbling
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whoosh!
I am confident that Cymarc are making a portable, wrap around cage at this very moment .
What are you talking about? The biggest bike insurer in the country already does.... If anybody is insured with Bennetts you better check your policy.... Page 6 of every policy, paragraph 5, under the heading 'Warranted Secondary Security', it states and I quote:
Your motorcycle must be secured with a secondary security device, such as a D lock, disclock, padlock and chain, immobiliser or other similar device. If you do not do this we may not deal with your claim.
This has been Bennetts policy for as long as I can remember?
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They all have a factory immobiliser the steering lock and coded key system
Bennetts told me it has to be a SECONDARY form of security on top of the OEM equipment. But that was just the youth that took my money, as I had a Harley that had nowhere to carry a chain and they wouldn't insure it.
Wapping is in the insurance game and he recommends a pound of butter in the fridge, so that's that covered !
Why would you volunteer to insure with Bennetts under their terms ?
Really?
I thought the steed was only awesome after a visit to Hilltop.....
:Thus probably limiting awesomeness to the original Plastic Chicken 1200 or the luvvies current fave WC
Roymondo
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It's not in the current policy document, which can be examined here: https://www.bennetts.co.uk/customer/policy/your-policy
As far as I can see, there is nothing similar in there at all. Nor in the previous version which is also accessible on the same web page.
