I'm fed up now!

[italianJob]

Hi everybody,
I need some advice. To cut a long story short, since I moved to SE london 2 months ago I had my GS knocked to the ground 3 times while parked at night on the street outside my house .

So far I've damage both the rocker covers, broken 3 indicators out of 4, scrachted the final drive, brake fluid spilt from the master cylinder and ruined the brake line - thank god I have a tank cover otherwise the bill would have been even more expensive - my back, and my liver .

It always happens at the weekends, and I suspect it has to do with those nice mobs of b@&tards going back home after an evening in the local pubs.

To try and put an end to this I was considering fitting my bike with an alarm. It doesn't have to have an immobiliser (I'd rather not ride around with one of those life-threatening gizmos under my a**e ) , but I need something to send those drunk and bored w@$£ers to have fun somewhere else.

Sorry about the rant, and TIA for your suggestions...

 

[Septic]

Italian Job

Get a staffordshire pit pull wrap an elestic band around his
dick. And chain him up next to your bike
No fecker is going to get close to your bike.

Ha Haaa

Or get out of london and live in the country

Stevie

 

[Ogmios]

on a serious note...

*personally* i see no need for a pricey alarm.

go to Maplins, get...i nearly said a mercury switch...get wotever passes for the modern "safety proofed" equivalent.
and a nasty 120db siren unit to match.
connect to a battery (e.g. one off an emergency lighting circuit - as fitted to fire alarms) - and there you go.
all of these are small and take up little room on the bike,

OR....
do a google search for the device i saw in MCN a couple of years ago - its a trip wire atttached to a shotgun cartridge - you move the bike / the shotgun cartridge goes off!

it may not stop your bike getting knocked over the first time its set off, but it'll scare the crap out of the offenders and hopefully they'll leave with a personal laundry problem and not bother the next time they pass.

it worked for me - when a flat dweller in a not so nice part of Dublin.

Good Luck to you.
Og.

 

[italianJob]

Or get out of london and live in the country

I wish I could

Anyway,

I probably need something like this .

Does any of you know if you can get something similar already assembled? Haven't used a solder for about 20 years now...

 

[(RIP) Yosi]

I have one of this:

http://www.sola-larm.com/motorcyclealarms.html

Paid about 20 quids some time ago. Simple and efective. It has a movement sensor and scream louder than a AA siren...

Another possible solution is to try and chain the thing to a lamp post or similar...

 

[BlackBetty]

This may seem an odd answer, but when I was in a similar situation I found a bike cover was an effective solution. What you cant see, you cant envy, and you just walk on by. It's just another bike.

 

[Steve]

If the scrotes down there are anything like the scrotes up here, they're even more likely to knock it over just to set the alarm off.

 

[Fanum]

This may seem an odd answer, but when I was in a similar situation I found a bike cover was an effective solution. What you cant see, you cant envy, and you just walk on by. It's just another bike.

Sounds like a good idea.......you could even stick a couple of traffic cones under the cover too, to make it look a bit more stable and to get in between the bike and the ground if it does get pushed over.

If you wanted to get clever, how about getting a four foot plank (like a scaffold frame plank), drilling a couple of big holes in the ends then parking on top of it.....put the bike on the centre stand with the stand on the middle of the plank, then put a ratchet strap through the holes in the ends of the plank, over the seat and ratchet down tightly......I'd like to see the bastards push that over!!!!

 

[Wreford Miles]

Supose you could just lay it on it's side each time you park...

On the other hand I'd go down the bike cover route

 

[Jimb]

Don't leave it in the street. rent a garage or space somewhere and check your battery fluid hasn't leaked out as well.

 

[italianJob]

thanks guys for all the replies

Don't leave it in the street. rent a garage or space somewhere and check your battery fluid hasn't leaked out as well.

I should be moving again sometimes soon (as soon as I exchange on my old place and buy somewhere else), and I will surely make sure I've got a garage/front garden/shed to keep the bike.

If you wanted to get clever, how about getting a four foot plank (like a scaffold frame plank), drilling a couple of big holes in the ends then parking on top of it.....put the bike on the centre stand with the stand on the middle of the plank, then put a ratchet strap through the holes in the ends of the plank, over the seat and ratchet down tightly......I'd like to see the bastards push that over!!!!

the problem is that I should then attach the plank to the tarmac in some way... sounds like this sort of job

 

[happy pilgrim]

if you flat is in view of the street....take a trip down to your local B& Q who had on sale a few weeks back cctv for domestic use which can be linked to video player.
send tape to police then wait 2months for response