GSA Stolen On The First Day of Tour nr Reims

My first call after reporting it to the police, and insurance would be to my travel insurance Co. It’s them I would expect to help me get back.

Have a read of your Travel policy, to make sure that it responds the way you think it does or should?
 
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Have a read of your Travel policy, to make sure that it responds the way you think it does or should?
It was a question I asked before buying the policy a number of years ago.
I’ll have to pay for everything, but then claim it back.
HOWEVER. Perhaps it’s time I read my latest policy booklet to see if anything has changed.
 
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So I am watching the entire video now, and can’t help but think that this fellow is, erm…


30k miles he’s ridden the thing and he did not know it had GSAP??? 🤦🏻‍♂️

He also speaks about locking up the bikes later on in the video. Yet will worry about it later.
 
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Nice off him too record everything...🙂

That’s how these influencers roll; no detail of their life can be passed by.

Thankfully, Viv Stanshall showed me the light:

My pink half of the drainpipe
Separates me from the incredibly fascinating story of your life and
every day-to-day event in all its minute and tedious attention to detail
 
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Are you trying to protect your own hide by questioning if bods should…



… when a motorcycle in fact was stolen from a carpark outside of an AirBnB, located a mile away from the hotel carpark that you have suggested it was stolen from.

Yes it is unfortunate, yes it is annoying and gutting to have anything stolen.
However the bike was stolen from a bloke who was all to blasse about leaving in unattended on the outskirts of a pretty big city, which he’s unlikely to have had any reasonable knowledge of the area that he had planned to stay in, whilst wondering about a scabby looking apartment (£40 a night???), whilst taking footage for his YouTube channel.
My reference of a “scabby looking apartment” wasn’t so much to a AirBnB owners business, more to a general appearance of the apartment. The owner no doubt has set a price to mirror the general appearance, condition and location of the apartment. After all same can be said for a chain of scabby looking (fact) Formula 1 Hotels all over the France, they are cheap, but you get what you pay for, there are people who do use them, or else they wouldn’t still be in business. I personally wouldn’t use them again after only a single experience in 2017, nor would I have chosen to stay in the “scabby looking apartment” shown in the video, knowing that it is within easy reach of a motorway network and on the outskirts of a big city , the carpark outside is huge and is unlikely to be observed by anybody who would be remotely be giving two shits or indeed looking out for my bike whilst I dream of seven virgins.

The outskirts of Reims aren’t much different to outskirts of Paris, New York, Birmingham or indeed London. The opportunists will prowl or lye low in hope of an easy prey.

Keep your eyes peeled on your belongings and even more so on your surroundings, choose wisely (where you are staying), lock it up (don’t be lazy), irrespective of where you are, at home or abroad.
You judge with so little information and yet accuse others of doing the same.
 
Fuck me....You all are readily accepting just how shit society is and willing to pay insurance companies to pay for your own acceptance of such.

Then you are all doomed to the downward spiral, the only people who profit are the insurance companies and the criminals.

I would at this point ask if you are all thick, but you clearly are, you all fucking well deserve each other.

Middle class wankstains who can pay for their own demise.....Good luck with that, because I have news for you....You will never win, you will just be fleeced blind by insurance and by criminals.

Wake the fuck up, do something, other than paying, they ALL depend on your spineless reaction....Both the criminals and the insurance companies, they are one in the fucking same you thick twats!

Get your fucking balls on the table and be prepared to skin these fuckers alive, beat them to a fucking pulp, break them, destroy them....Or be a victim forever, you fucking numpty`s.
 
Get your fucking balls on the table and be prepared to skin these fuckers alive, beat them to a fucking pulp, break them, destroy them....

Plonk our balls on the table, skin them and beat them to pulp? I’ve heard of machocism but that is extreme. Is it popular in the wilder ends of Portugal?
 
It’s not popular in Folkestone, well, at least not at the parties I get invited to.
 
Perhaps you should express your point more clearly? I interpreted it as all “Woe is the world”.

:beerjug:
It was based more on my observation of what humanity seems to think is acceptable both physically and verbally.
 
A guy i used to work with, was on his way back through france a couple of weeks ago finishing a touring holiday, he got to his hotel, parked the bike in a parking space outside the hotel and checked in.

Next morning he went to load the bike, only to find a car in the spot where his bike was....

What a way to fnish a touring holiday.

And yes his bike was locked 😩
 
And yes his bike was locked

To itself, I guess?

It’s easy to do, I have done it, not least as it’s not always easy to find something to secure the bike to. The only realistic answer then is a decent tracker, assuming the bike is not then stolen and dumped into a container or metal clad shed.

Of course, hundreds or more bikes and scooters are NOT stolen each day, let alone year or on a holiday. That though does not mean that they can’t go missing from even the apparently safest of places. It is easy to get over relaxed on holiday and distracted, even to the point of making self-promoting videos, then missing the basics. Likewise, it is only too easy to get lazy.
 
You do feel for him...

Yes and No... He's in unfamiliar place, (doesn't matter that the council watering hanging baskets at 5am), leaving the bike out in the open public carpark, miles away from the front door and without a lock in sigh, despite him suggesting to lockup before leaving the bike unattended. Why not park the bike where his lad eventually parked up for the night? Or better still, round the back of that hideous concrete staircase. Out of sight....
...but his pronunciation of Reims is a crime against language.
Indeed, but then again, I was pronouncing it all same, until I asked how to pronounce it correctly at the hotel reception.
 


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