Yes, yes, yes, all that but we're all grown ups and all fallible and no amount of educational reminder posts of the glaringly obvious will make a jot of difference to a moment of "oh shit".On the contrary, the thread is a good one, as it serves to remind everyone, that theft of a motorbike (or indeed anything) can occur at any place at any time.
That serves too, as a reminder to follow the old adage: ‘Lock it or lose it’. It is very easy to get lazy or forgetful, especially when tired or distracted. Everyone, me included, wants to get into their accommodation, showered and into the bar, relying on “It’ll be safe there, I can move it later, it won’t need a lock, I can see it out of the window” or some such excuse for not doing something. The fellow was distracted, making a video to share (promote, might be a better word) his life with the world. How much better for him and the world, if he’d spent a minute or two, videoing securing their bikes. It would have been a prompt to viewers to do the same themselves. Who knows, he might even have done a ‘reveal’ on the security the pair of them had used, answering (at least in part) enquiries as to “What lock is best, mate?” and boosting his subscribers in the process.
The thread has also prompted some to check their insurance, should it happen to them. It has also hopefully prompted some to think how they’d get home themselves. The fellow was lucky, as he lost the vehicle in Rheims and seems to live in Essex, within reasonably close proximity of each other and connected by pretty good trains. It might have looked a bit different had he been in the south of Spain, in the far north of Norway or idling on a Greek island.
I have admitted that I got lazy during Covid. A simple post on the forum from a bod, saying how his bike was stolen “I was only gone a minute, buying a coffee”, was the prompt I needed to give myself a kick up the arse….. and to make sure there is a pound of butter in the fridge.
BlackFukk me Betty, talk about "kicking" a man when he's down. Doesn't anyone feel one iota of sadness for the poor bloke instead of all the spiteful, smug, self righteous foresight and hindsight? ....especially with him staying in scabby, cheap , council estate type digs? Some people are just dim and/or poor/on a budget and therefore not as superior in intelligence and wealth as we on here are.
Load of cnuts.
Reminders? What good are reminders? You know, you don't know, end of. It's just empty rhetoric.At least you’ve now had the reminder as to how to potentially deal with one of your problems. As to dealing with memory loss, falling off and getting lost? Start a fresh set of threads, whilst you remember.
My bikes, car, motorhome etc have all been highly personalised and not replaceable. I’ve spent thousands of pounds on getting each one “ right “ for me.
Indeed, they facilitate the criminal fraternity by providing financial solutions to your loss, so they have no interest in repairing society, only a financial interest in ensuring it falls further.
