Lock up your bike!!

Better question... who can lift one... they are not exactly light and nimble...lol.

I was wondering about that -- even four guys would have their work cut out for them trying to lift one into a van! For the average HD that's 170-200 pounds per dude

Lots of folks COULD do it -- but why? Plainly there was a considerable market fpr stolen HD parts...

Small 1 bedroom apt with a preggo. When we go out of town, I wheel it into the kitchen.

Here's when I first bought it doing some new ownership maintenance.

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Yeah, but after a couple of uses the theft rates dropped a lot. :eek1

--Bill





Oh, before y'all think I'm a wacko, just kidding about the shaped charge...

So I can shock somebody with my seat?? I just changed my seat cover last night, I'm sending the old one to Zombie_Stomp so he can start producing them. So I'm not worried about seat covers

You can shock your homie when you trade bikes

I have three bikes, all parked outside in the driveway since I don't have a garage and they're not about to fit up the stairs and inside the door. Everyone's constantly surprised that I haven't had any bikes stolen yet. I do a few things.

All my bikes have a pin-based steel brake disc lock with anti-drilling keyhole. They're also sized so that you can't get a blade/saw/other cutting tool between the disc and pin -- at least one that's sufficent enough to cut the pin in a respectable amount of time without melting the pin. I also locate the disc lock on the *rear* brake, not the front. Swapping out a front wheel on most bikes takes under 30 seconds if there's two people involved and they have a spare wheel ready. Most rear wheels take more time, espeically if you have some weird setup like my Ninja's odd-ass brake holders and chain aligners. YMMV on this depending on your swingarm/rear brake/rear wheel setup, of course, but in general the hassle of a disc lock on the rear wheel is enough to deter all but dead-set thieves.

Secondly, all my bikes have covers. This is due only to having to protect them from weather, but the side effect is that it prevents opportunist thieves. The effect is minor as most of the time you can tell the general type of bike underneath a cover, but hey, it's a side effect only.

Third, the driveway is just wider than an average car. There's only enough room to ride a motorcycle down the driveway, and not with side bags/cases. As my property is fenced to the edge of the driveway, this means someone can't walk beside the bike, let alone four people carry it out on pipes. At least one car is in my driveway at almost all hours of the day.

For all my bikes, I carry the disc lock when touring. It's small, can be worn on your belt, stuffed in pocket, or stashed in a bag. My Ninja -- looking the most like a supersport and thusly close to the main target cateogry for bike thefts in my area -- is also fitted with an alarm (triggered by hotwire, power loss, tilt, touch, and motion; I've set it off by touching my tank bag). Said alarm is also totally isolated with the battery under a screwed down seat, screw which in turn are covered by the locked pillion seat. Somebody would have to do a lot of work with a saw or crowbar to get to the alarm. Though I only really activate the alarm when I'm leaving the bike uncovered while touring.

Finally, in case a bike *does* get stolen, they all are covered by insurance.

I also believe that keeping the bikes in plain sight helps to deter casual thieves. Sure, your average passerby wouldn't know that the stranger mucking around with the bike's rear tire isn't the owner, but most casual opportunistic thieves would be scared of someone seeing what they're doing.

In reality, a simple disc lock on the rear brake is enough to deter the majority of theives. Even a chain and U/pad lock is enough of a generla deterrent. I prefer disc locks over a chain and U/pad lock because *good* chains and resistant padlocks take up too much space while touring for my tastes. That and I don't have anything to tether a chain to at home. Though I'd use one if I didn't have a rear disc brake since locking just the front tire of any motorcycle (or bicycle for that matter) is kinda pointless.

Besides, if someone is really deterined to steal a moto, they'll do it. There's an article on Reddit by a reformed professional motorcycle thief that gave out a lot of tips of what pros look for.

I went to Home Depot and got some heavy duty chain and a lock without a shackle to cut and a cheap bicycle tube. I cut out the valve and slid the rest over the chain so it doesn't scratch the bike. It's good for the home but would be a pain to carry around.

Chad

5/16" liftgate chain from McMaster-Carr. It takes a 250# man on a new 4' bolt
cutter to bust it and the chain has to be flipped, heaved on again to get it done.

This type of chain has forged links and hardly rusts.

I keep mine outside in NYC with the biggest chain made by Kryptonite mounted on a bicycle U shaped beam woh the ugliest ripped cover on it. There is also a camera facing it, and lots of people walking around. The only issue is that the projects are two avenues away, but so far (knock on wood) people would probably rather steal the ducati behind my bike than this one (hopefully). If all else fails, I have insurance. The article by that thief definitely provides some good insight into how the thief thinks, and what are easy targets, but if he wants it, he will take it.

My bikes get locked in a garage, with an alarm turned on.

When parked elsewhere, I use a Xena lock, Xena Claw, and a 15' cable that is adjusted tight. Any movement of the cable sets off the Xena alarm and/or bike's alarm. A $20 cover from Target is also easy to carry. My bikes are insured too.

lol, jogged my memory... decades ago, we all had Pioneer Super Tuner under dash stereos screwed underneath our metal dash boards of various muscle/just old cars. High theft rate... one guy at school took single edge industrial razor blades and screwed them to the bottom rear edge of said Super Tuner. Can you guess what happened when the theif grabbed it and YANKED (preferred method to unscrewing) on it to extricate it?

Even tho my bike is garaged, i have lots of dumbass wannabe gangsters that live around me, the kind that can barely walk their pitbull cause they are too much of a pussy, so i lock my shit up.








Kryptonite chain and lock,

oooh i like that. is that in the ground? I shuld do something like that. How'd you do it?

Its a boat anchor epoxied into the foundation, So if they really want it, they need to bring a jackhammer with them, that kryptonite chain is huge too btw, cant really tell in the pics, search your local cl, thats where i got mine.

This looks pretty solid!

I installed a Kryptonite floor anchor in the garage and use the biggest Kryptonite New York chain and lock setup through the back wheel of the Ducati. The anchor requires drilling three holes in the floor and inserting expansion anchors. The assembly is bolted down with countersunk allen bolts and then hard ball bearings are driven into the hex recesses in the bolts. A cover bolts down over everything.

It takes about a half hour to install if you have a hammer drill.

My philosophy is that if you make it difficult enough to steal, they'll look for an easier one.

I used to lock the EX500 up to the 8' tall fence behind it at work with a U-lock. Once had someone steal a bike from work, they knocked down my battered old 500 to get to the $36,000 custom harley road king. So... ugly old bikes locked to things are kinda theft-resistant.

My current job, I park the bike inside. Next to the laser. There are cameras everywhere, large and strong employees looking for a fight, and a bit of an obstacle course to even get to it in the first place - all for a dirty KLR - and when all that fails, full coverage insurance.

One of the advantages to riding a BMW... who the fk would steal it.

the getto boys all ride zip and splats and hte HD riders don't even know BMW makes modern motorcycles.

that leaves BMW riders...