Theft of stuff (expensive) from panniers

A group of us leave on 16th June for an Alps trip.

Shame that…..

All the bikes will topple over on the train or ferry

We’ll be waiting at customs for 2 weeks

Our kit will get stolen if we move more than 30cm from the bike for more than 0.00000001 seconds

Our helmets will get pissed in

We will discover that in Europe all portable angle grinders are way stronger and last longer than in the UK

We will get a puncture

Any soft luggage will be cut off and stolen

We will discover that in Europe no equivalent of ‘Halfords’ or ‘Tool Station’ exists

Any hard luggage will have the locks drilled, contents stolen, and rendered U/S for rest of trip

We will get another puncture, whilst riding off after having repaired the first one

No shops anywhere in Europe will sell food

No towns will have petrol stations within 70 miles

Gendarmes will pull us over every 30 mins

We’ll be fined €15000000 for not having a hi viz vest

We will go onto a motorway in Switzerland, get caught and be jailed for 3 years

Our bikes will break down

Once fixed, our bikes will immediately get stolen

We will get beaten and raped at the police station, reporting the bike thefts

Once in UK, (Having waited 4 years at passport control), our insurance companies will offer us 50p per claim






Or back in the real world……..

We will take sensible precautions and most likely have a great time

Fuck me, soon of the doom mongering and bedwetting on here is ludicrous.


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There was a piece of advice handed down from the old detectives that had been around the block, to the newly appointed, who always thought that now they were a Suit, they’d made it, and turned up in something Gucci.

“Never wear a suit you can’t afford some pisshead puking on”

So my panniers had my old socks, grundies, T shirts and the like that got worn for a day on the bike and binned after the next shower. So good luck to anyone who broke into them. What I couldn’t continue without, phone, cards, passport etc stayed with me. All that effort and not a thing ever got nicked. Decades of riding without once having the pleasure of knowing some dick had opened a bag with my oldest skiddies in.
 
I got half way through and was interrupted by someone stealing my bike……

Which I was sat on typing ……


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Wapping said:
What happened to the security oil filler caps that bods fitted, convinced that scrotes would remove the standard cap and piss in the hole?
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I bought a new R1200GS in 2006 and can remember being brassed off that no-one made a security oil filler cap for 1200s, they only made them for 1150s.

I kept it for four years and amazingly, against all the odds, no-one ever pissed into my engine - :D
 
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With 10 years on the road, I was unlucky enough to get only one thing stolen off my bike, I always take my panniers into my room when I can and never leave anything valuable on the bike overnight if I can help it. One night in Sulawesi, Indonesia I had my alarm go off, so jumped out of bed and managed to see 2 scumbags running down the road. Only the next day did I notice they had stolen the spotlight off the bike, but with my interference or their lack of knowledge they had left the ballast behind.

I've know of a few helmets go missing from some Overlanders here in Chile, they do like do take things here but these days it may not be from actual Chileans. Pickpockets throughout South America are the biggest pain.
 
Standby Standby

There’ll be a bedwetter along shortly with a tale of woe from 1973 …….


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