I came home tonight to what looks like an attempted theft of my bike. I found it turned on it’s side with the indicator smashed. There’s no way it could have natually fell over by itself. Fortunately that seems to be all the damage that has been done.
I have two disc-locks, an alarm and almax security chain achored through a brick wall. Only a serious thief could nick it.
The dust sheet on it has stopped the body work form getting damaged. But I’m still raging! I’ve only been in London for two weeks and someone’s already attacked my bike! If it wasn’t for archoring it I can well imagine it’d be long gone now!
Makes my blood boil, it really does. Someone must have really gone out of their way to push it over too, I leaned it up to the wall and anchored it, they must have pulled quite hard to tip it over. Not to mention setting off the alarm too. It’s lucky it didn’t tear down the wall with the weight. I am not sure how much safer I can make it. I can’t keep it indoors either. I might take it back to my parent’s place and leave it up there until I move.
Some frigging idiot broke my front fender and now I am struggling to find another matching colour one to replace it! I would punch them in the head, but then I would only hurt my fist and my head.
Feel for you mate. My first bike was nicked within a few weeks of buying it. I must have been naive as it never occurred to me people would be so bothered to nick a 2nd hand CG125. At least you were well secured and didn’t lose anything. Hopefully they pushed it over as they realised it wasn’t worth the hassle of taking it and wont come back.
Contact your local council and get a garage and a ground anchor to go with your chain and disc lock. Maybe go halves with another biker you can trust so you make the most of the garage and take the strain off your wallet.
Budget around £17/week for a garage depending on your local council. Council tennants can have the VAT waived sometimes, I know my mate in Harrow doesn’t pay VAT on his garage fees.
Sorry to hear that. It seems there is no real way to protect a bike from this kind of threat (except for those lucky who have garage). I’ve got a similar problem not so long ago. Someone just tipped my bike, so it fell on bicycle ground stand and got my tank slightly deformed and indicator cracked.
