How do you lock up your GSA?

[BigDan]

Hi all,

Just looking for some advice on how you fellas secure your GSA. On my old bandit it was a chain over the seat and through the wheel, but I find that more of a pain in the arse with the spoked wheels, also the chain isn't long enough on the GSA.

Pictures/advice very much appreciated.

P.S. thought I should list the items i have available;
Cheap disk lock (more of a visual deterrent)
U lock
Almax Immobiliser 3 with squire lock

 

[Wreford Miles]

I don't lock mine but if I did it would be to something and what that something was would dictate the how

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

My advice .....

Invest in a longer chain and feed it though your rear axle. The only way to then steal the bike is by cutting your chain

 

[RedRick Esq.]

Mine is an Almax chain through a Torc ground anchor and a squire lock with the chain then fed through the frame and rear foot peg hanger
i make sure that the chain is positioned so that it doesn't really lay on the ground.

 

[Bounce]

> Oxford (sold secure) disc lock on the front
> U lock through the front and secured to the paddock stand
> Revolver lock through the rear
> 4m long braided steel cable lock which goes thru the rear wheel, over the pillion seat and locks thru the rear wheel of the KTM which is next to it

 

[patzx12]

I very rarely chain my bike, it sits in the garage with the keys in the ignition.

 

[phillh]

Make sure you chain it to something solid, ground anchor or post. If not, 4 guys with 2 scaffold poles will have it in the back of a van in 30 seconds.

Even something as big and heavy as a GSA.

 

[tuftywhite]

My advice .....

Invest in a longer chain and feed it though your rear axle. The only way to then steal the bike is by cutting your chain

Call me an idiot, but if you put the chain through the rear axle, surely the bike could still be wheeled away? Wouldn't it be better through the spokes?

 

[tuftywhite]

I very rarely chain my bike, it sits in the garage with the keys in the ignition.

Sorry, what's your address?

 

[GS TRV]

With a badass Almax

 

[sagalout]

Almax immobiliser 4, through the spokes and to a ground anchor. Only just fits through the spokes though.

 

[Deleted account 200502001]

Like this..

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showth...nchor-installation-photos?highlight=pinch+pin

 

[Cymru-Dave]

through the rear axel and round something for me

 

[Bendy toy]

Check your insurance. Mine stipulates the bike should be garaged but is not fussy about it being bolted to the garage floor or even disc-locked.
But if it's stolen within a set distance of my garage it's not covered.

 

[crotchrocket]

Does the Almax 3 fit through the rear hub hole thing, or do you need a pinch pin? Almax advised against the pinch pin on the phone, as it gives a solid / sturdy think to cut rather than a loose chain and also just needs one cut rather than the chain that requires two.

 

[Deleted account 200502001]

Almax advised against the pinch pin on the phone, as it gives a solid / sturdy think to cut rather than a loose chain and also just needs one cut rather than the chain that requires two.

I call bollocks. The pin is no more rigid than the chain, intact the pin can turn whereas a chain won't.. The pin is much easier to feed through the rear hub than a flexi chain, and is inserted in seconds meaning you are more likely to use it. I don't think my 19mm chain fits through the rear hub, but I carry a smaller chain in the top box and just use the 19mm chain at home. The pin though can only be used with a 19m chain and a particular Squires padlock.

 

[ManhattanMcC]

Kryptonite Fuggetaboutit chain, through rear wheel between paralever arm/drive. NY Disc Lock closing chain on paralever arm w one end of Krypto flex cable in the loop. Bike covered, kryptoflex cable fed through cover & between headers/engine locked to NY Disc on front wheel which also secures the front of the cover. None of it able to touch the ground. Same pattern I've been using for years. If it was good enough for Harlem and Brooklyn, it's good enough for London. If anyone wants to deal with all that, defeat the alarm, and risk being captured on CCTV... they deserve my bike.

 

[Bendy toy]

I have a heavy lock but its so cumbersome it hardly ever gets used. When parking away from home a I take a 12mm English Chain with double slot sliding pin lock by Motrax. It passes through the front swing arm slots leaving enough slack to go around a post.

I rarely lock around/through the frame because most pro thieves will strip the bike for spares so a trashed subframe is no big deal.

At home its parked in a brick garage with a well locked door.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Why bother?

If they want it they'll get it

Locks only inconvenience the legitimate owner and not the thief

 

[Speedy1959]

I dont lock mine when I'm out 'n about but I do lock it to a Oxford Ground anchor jobbie with an enormous cloth covered chain when its at home.
Where I live I have the very best thief deterrent......
I am surround by curtain twitching old biddies..
The all "like" me and keep an eye on my bike and place whilst Im at work.. I never use my bike for work...