keep your bike safe and secure

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:32 pm

zx793rr wrote:...Most disc locks can have liquid nitrogen poured on them and apparently you can brake the hardened pin / whole disc with a hammer....

Yep, thats a pretty common method of stealing bikes eh ...

The actual risk of a thief using liquid nitrogen to steal your bike is pretty small I would suspect....

GPS would be great if you could hide the sender unit in a location where the bike thieves would not just rip it out and throw it.........most stolen bikes are dismantled within hours of theft, and parts sold off all over the place - especially nice tasty parts like ex-WSB parts

You would need a GPS sender on every part to enable a recovery. Insurance companies *will not* go out and recover your stolen bike, that is the job of the police, who generally have more pressing issues at hand....

Mate I have had 3 bikes stolen from locked sheds with locked gates to the yard, the little bastards knocked out *1.5m* of fence FFS to steal one of my trailbikes !!! The coppers had another one in their damn yard for *2 feckin weeks* before they remembered to ring me

I can understand how worried you may be about losing your baby, and who wouldn't be, but all the advice so far about insurance and locks, CCTV etc, is the best you will get. Forget GPS for stolen bike recovery, its only good for telling you the way to get somewhere.

If you are *really* worried, buy a shotgun and plenty of No-Doze

YAPPA · Post by **YAPPA** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:42 pm

Wise words from "I've been awake for days, what the fuck was that noise, CHIK CHIK BOOM Oh I just farted Dave"

Barrabob · Post by **Barrabob** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:52 pm

Dave if you had 4 cameras running on a 7 day loop you would have all the evidance you need of who did it and could go and break their legs for fun.

The prime reason for using the hidden camera models is so you can gather the evidence not to stop them theiving you do that later.

Last time i lost a large amount of the contents of my garage the police couldnt give a rats and would handle my complaint when they where not too busy.

Ohh insurance works too.

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:18 pm

hmm this looks pretty neat, might have to get me one of them for my RF

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Also htf do they use a bottle jack to break disclocks apart from smackin the shit out of them with it?

zx793rr · Post by **zx793rr** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:00 pm

The bottle jack that I found being held by a young punk having a snooze against my pushbike had brackets welded to both ends. These brackets went under the end of the 'U' while the other was held against the flat section which holds the locking mechanism. The 'U' section is extremely tough and hard to cut but the locking mech is soft....inside the base.
You just pump the jack and it just pulls the 'U' stright out of the base. The 'U' section didn't even looked damaged but the mech was trashed.

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:21 pm

If only they'd use their ingenuity for good...

YAPPA · Post by **YAPPA** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:07 pm

MMMMMMMM Hydraulics....man stuff...grunt

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:41 pm

Barrabob wrote:Dave if you had 4 cameras running on a 7 day loop you would have all the evidance you need of who did it and could go and break their legs for fun.

The prime reason for using the hidden camera models is so you can gather the evidence not to stop them theiving you do that later.

agree 100%. Costly, but effective, and there is nothing like video evidence as absolute proof of identity - especially if the camera's are hidden.

I think insurance may be a bit hard to get for an ex-WSB bike ? At least, a policy that covers you for the replacement cost anyway, how would they work *that* out ?

If I owned something as desirable as this, I would *seriously* park it in the bedroom, even if it meant adding a door to the room, whatever.

Motion sensor in the garage hooked up to a 145dB siren may also be a good idea.

balanse · Post by **balanse** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:53 pm

So General Birkalter comes over with Captain Klink and steals your bike on video.

You stand there going "I know nufffinngg"

What happens next ...

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:19 pm

balanse wrote:So General Birkalter comes over with Captain Klink and steals your bike on video.

You stand there going "I know nufffinngg"

What happens next ...

yep, CCTV is easily beaten as well, even a teatowel and some dark glasses can stuff a CCTV system - if it is *well-hidden*, then perhaps Klink and Schultz may not turn up in their uniforms ....

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:08 am

Nothing but insurance for me & the bastards still won't take my VTR Firestorm. I even left it overnight in Goodna and it was right where I left it, still in 1 pce

Maybe it cause its a Honda

mobile · Post by **mobile** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:20 am

mike-s wrote:hmm this looks pretty neat, might have to get me one of them for my RF .

Also htf do they use a bottle jack to break disclocks apart from smackin the shit out of them with it?

Mike, thats the steelmate that I have fitted, BTW QBE will remove theft excess if you have this fitted

ozx6r · Post by **ozx6r** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:15 am

onyl prob with disc locks is when some tosser moves ya biek and bends a disc - not happy jan