Warning - Stolen Clocks (Again)
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Brilliant, can you advise what size domed mirror screw and where did you purchase it from please.
did check google but would be grateful if you could shed more light
did check google but would be grateful if you could shed more light
Grim Reaper
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Troppo
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I came from a Trumpet (1200 Explorer) to my fantastic GS-LC.
IMHO the GS-LC is the better bike in virtually every respect, most of my Explorer buddies have also moved across to the GS-LC too!
Yep....
Or you could neatly cover the area around the circlip with Sugru, mouldable rubber. Goes hard in 24 hours and can be removed, but takes more than 15 pissing seconds!
http://sugru.com/
BB
http://sugru.com/
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JimVonBaden
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Thank doG this has not been an issue in the US! BMWs are rarely messed with here.
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AndrewL
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Cymarc Brace
Just thought I should add that I fitted the Cymarc brace as well as a headlamp cover after my clocks and headlight were stolen outside a pub in central London during daylight hours. Alarm was going off like the clappers but no passer-by was bothered as they removed £3000 worth of kit. Yesterday they took the instrument cluster again (two months after last time) cutting through the brace. This time it was parked outside a major shopping centre with CCTV and plenty of customers but nobody interested in tackling the two louts on a motorbike as they ripped it out with alarm going again. If you park near Holborn be warned - nothing is safe.
Just thought I should add that I fitted the Cymarc brace as well as a headlamp cover after my clocks and headlight were stolen outside a pub in central London during daylight hours. Alarm was going off like the clappers but no passer-by was bothered as they removed £3000 worth of kit. Yesterday they took the instrument cluster again (two months after last time) cutting through the brace. This time it was parked outside a major shopping centre with CCTV and plenty of customers but nobody interested in tackling the two louts on a motorbike as they ripped it out with alarm going again. If you park near Holborn be warned - nothing is safe.
Not good to hear
So BMW designs fancy clocks and LED lights, that are very insecure from new and then aftermarket firms - make a security bra to rectify this oversight and they go again
Not good really
WC clocks and LED lights must be very desireable
Where do they all go?
honestly , its more an indictment of the society in which that motorcycle operates rather than the said motorcycle's design.
if people can dismantle stuff from a vehicle in a crowded area in broad daylight , with the alarm going , I would move to a different country
bikemad
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I'd sell the fucking thing after 2nd set went it's a fuck up on BMWs part making it easy to Nick ! be cheaper to buy an old commuter then use this for best if it has to be left unattended.
What you need is some of that stuff that Bruce Willis as the Jackal, puts on the boot lock of his car in the film of the same name. When the guy tries to open the boot, he dies an agonising death foaming at the mouth.
That would teach the fuckers.
That would teach the fuckers.
Can you post a pic showing how they cut through the brace?
Be interesting to see as I've just purchased one of these braces.
Geez Andrew that is not good at all, i feel for you, BMW made a total fook up with there design, NO WC bike is safe to be left out of view, they promote it being fit to travel the globe ! But your clocks and headlight can be pulled off within secs...wtf
Yes, I really feel for you too. You can almost guarantee that it's just one, maybe two teams doing it. Take them out the equation (prison) and the problem stops overnight. They've obviously tapped into a good little earner and have the infrastructure for want of a better word, to get rid of the gear and make money.
It makes you want to chop their feckin hands off.
To be fair to BM though, pretty much any bike you could strip of its more valuable components. Single sided swingarms ? there's a rear wheel with disc rotor and tyre worth £400 and that'll take about 20 seconds.
I don't think it's that BM's are particularly easy to get at, it's more that theyve discovered a good market ...
It makes you want to chop their feckin hands off.
To be fair to BM though, pretty much any bike you could strip of its more valuable components. Single sided swingarms ? there's a rear wheel with disc rotor and tyre worth £400 and that'll take about 20 seconds.
I don't think it's that BM's are particularly easy to get at, it's more that theyve discovered a good market ...
it's more that theyve discovered a good market ...
Yes, and a market they've created by stealing them in the first place. If those that have had them stolen refuse to buy replacements from the second hand market, other than reputable breakers, the problem should stop PDQ.
Come on then, get your mates in the Met - to take them down, serious & organised crime to get straight onto it
Pull some strings, for the collective
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