Reims - avoid ..!!
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I refer anyone reading this to Stepper's anti theft tip: let the air out of your tyres and use an air pump to re-inflate them next morning to re-inflate them.
Probably why the receptionist at the Enzo hotel told me to put the bike inside in the breakfast area last June.
That’s a good point
One I may well be using, in future
Bikes can be and are nicked from anywhere. Reims, is no better or worse (as a city) than anywhere else.
The post quoted in post #1, is silent as to whether the bikes were additionally secured in any way.
Letting the tyres down, does indeed slow a ‘push away’ theft. It does nothing to reduce the not uncommon, scaffolding pole through the wheels and up and away into a van.
PS I seem to remember the Reims story, doing the rounds before. Probably a similar occurrence.
But anyway, it’s not the first. This one looks like the same event as the opening post, or something very similar:
www.litelok.com
The post quoted in post #1, is silent as to whether the bikes were additionally secured in any way.
Letting the tyres down, does indeed slow a ‘push away’ theft. It does nothing to reduce the not uncommon, scaffolding pole through the wheels and up and away into a van.
PS I seem to remember the Reims story, doing the rounds before. Probably a similar occurrence.
But anyway, it’s not the first. This one looks like the same event as the opening post, or something very similar:
LITELOK X3 Saves £25,000 Motorcycle in Reims #71
Discover how a LITELOK X3 stopped a motorcycle theft in Reims, France. Real customer story of a failed angle grinder and hammer attack on a BMW R1300 GSA.
www.litelok.com
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In the following comments the chap stated that his bike was alarmed and had an additional lock of some sort
It seems only newish GS’s were targeted and seemingly other marques were untouched
No doubt bound for Lithuania
But, apparently not in the City of London, where many bods leave their bikes all day, totally unsecured.
I thought it was Romania, or was it Albania?
If Lithuania, we need EV to form a posse of tooled-up bikermates; he can at least speak their version of ‘foreign’.
Looks like a bit more of the story:
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Had a similar tale from a mate from the trials world. Both his and his mates GS were stolen from their hotel in Reims a couple of weeks ago. His bike had a Litelock fastened to his brake disc, the thieves cut the brake disc instead. The other two bikes with them were untouched.
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Sad tale. Hold up a piece of cardboard with 'Free Gaza' written on it and you're nicked, someone lifts your twenty grand bike and nothing, nada, zilch.
He’s probably not far wrong about the staff involvement.
There's been much talk of butter in the fridge on here.
As this is France would a carton of brie suffice?
As this is France would a carton of brie suffice?
Non!
They are probably Lithuanian, disguised as Algerian.
Merci.
Beurre, demi-sel of course.
Just to add something on Step's (awesome) tyre tip.
In Italy is not uncommon for the thieves to show up with a small van lifting the entire bike as Wapping describes above. I guess France might be similar.
The "thieves" are a bit more "professional" than the common scum on our shores.
Lock accordingly
In Italy is not uncommon for the thieves to show up with a small van lifting the entire bike as Wapping describes above. I guess France might be similar.
The "thieves" are a bit more "professional" than the common scum on our shores.
Lock accordingly
IF they were lifted straight into a van as the OP suggests, I'm not sure that would have made much difference.
C'est les Pikies n'est pas
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