Where to put a security chain?

[Bendy toy]

Nothing is secure against a cordless angle grinder with a 1mm Klingspor slitting disc. ( I use them all the time for cutting stainless and tool steel).
The torsional load on the center stand is likely to snag the cutting disc before it is cut fully through.
But the thief might not have to get under the bike next to it with his disc cutter. ( when chased by a tiger you only have to run faster than the slowest runner)
I made this to use when away from home and when there is nothing to chain the bike to.

A disc lock is easier to use and just as effective. But either way, the bike would be away in seconds with a furniture moving dolly under the centre stand or locked wheel.

Ive recently found a parking space where I can take the chain through the bike frame (behind rear shock), around the rear wheel and around the parking loop. The lock could be cut but bike frame cuts more easily. This way means more tubes to deal with.

 

[Deleted account 200123001]

Excuse the dirt. .

Wash your mouth out, it's feckin GS not a chrome saturated cruiser!

 

[Mistacat]

Unless you are the juiciest fattest option. Makes the Tigers extra effort worth it.

A lot of the GS riders I have seen would have the old tiger licking his lips a lot more than he would for a skinny morsel like me.

 

[Deleted account 200502001]

Ive just bought an Abus Granite folding lock for my pushbikes. Its nice and compact when folded away, making it easy to store in the top box as an extra chain for use on my GSA as well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005VMO...olid=39U1WC9YKN9K&coliid=I1WC5S5VT8VLAM&psc=1

 

[Bendy toy]

Can you get a longer version for motorbikes?

 

[Camel Toe]

Mate of mine has a baby listener / sleep monitor things from amazon......one unit sits near his bike and the other by his bed.....slightest noise in garage wakes him...... has one in his van full of tools and it saved his gear one night.....

 

[buellzebub]

Mate of mine has a baby listener / sleep monitor things from amazon......one unit sits near his bike and the other by his bed.....slightest noise in garage wakes him...... has one in his van full of tools and it saved his gear one night.....

I like that idea

 

[Andi_archer]

One of those high pitched rape alarms with the cord attached between the bike and the ground gives a good wake up call too

 

[Mac One]

Broken Britain indeed !

 

[Mac One]

I'd also consider covering it too.
I regularly drive past a mates very expensive W/C Beemer in Cambridge, kept parked in his front garden on a busy through road and it's never been touched. Maybe because it lives under a crappy dirty old Oxford cover.

So that's what's under that old Oxford cover, interesting.

 

[Pauly S]

Ive just bought an Abus Granite folding lock for my pushbikes. Its nice and compact when folded away, making it easy to store in the top box as an extra chain for use on my GSA as well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005VMO...olid=39U1WC9YKN9K&coliid=I1WC5S5VT8VLAM&psc=1

I think youre onto something with this, it will slide out of bolt croppers, but is cuttable by a disc cutter, but if a large enough bar is use, it will proabably wear out the grinder battery before youre through it.

 

[MattW]

I've wondered about a chain sleeve made of the same (or similar) material as that used on chainsaw protective clothing. That stuff is designed to catch on the saw chain and it shreds into a load of fine kevlar fibres which jam the saw before you've cut your leg off. if it worked against slitting blades in grinders then it might stop (or at least severely frustrate) a theft?

 

[Bendy toy]

I'd like to think so, but I believe the fabric is designed to snag the chain cutting teeth. The discs pretty much burn their way though so don't be surprised if the stuff has no effect. Maybe someone has some old chainsaw trousers to try it on.