My lovely black ST OU57ACV was loaded into a white transit van in N5, London tonight. Alarm and disc lock did, unsurprisingly, nothing to help other than let me know the bike was away. If anyone sees a stock, black 2007 street triple in London, please take a closer look and call the police if in any doubt.
p.s. happened at 21.10 today, 25th July.
Bastards
Will keep an eye out
bastards. what do they do, just lift the front end and roll them on the back wheel or something or lift both wheels?
Sadly this appears to have become one of the downsides of London life …
If you keep your bike on the streets a >14mm chain and a sturdy >50mm closed shackle padlock should now be considered an essential accessory to secure the bike to some substantial piece of street furnitue to minimise the risk of it being taken.
@ theprawn The light fingered brigade have their ways. I’ve seen CCTV footage of two scrawny 14 year olds swiftly and effortlessly moving a 200Kg bike still fitted with the disk lock to the front and a massive chain through the back wheel. Should their methods be disclosed on a public forum, I don’t think so.
can you pm me? i’m not a bike thief i promise. i want to improve my security, i have a couple of chains and a disc lock, just thinking up the best way to use em all.
disk lock front wheel, chain back wheel. Unless I put a ground anchor on the curb there’s not much else to do.
@ miuziboy is it not possible to chain it to a tree or lamp post?
@ the prawn - Please don’t take offence but I don’t know you and therefore I consider it inappropriate to discuss details.
My advice on security is to use quality disk locks front & back, chain to a secure object with a >14mm chain (42" bolt cropper jaws only extend to 12.5mm). A 1.5 metre chain length will be tight but long enough for use as a carry chain, a 2 metre chain length is better but possible too heavy if you’re thinking of using it as a carry chain too. If you need to chain your bike to trees or lamp posts a 2.5 meter chain may be required, a tape measure is your best friend before ordering a chain that may be too short and therefore useless.
bastards. 
it takes more than that to offend me. i’ve been round waxys house.
If its come to this, honestly whats the point of parking a bike and leaving it? Really sad.
PLEASE call me - check your PM
let me know what number to get you on
^^Was that good news regarding your bike???
Not yet, waiting on a way to contact rixxy.
I did just get a call from the police though. They did see the van on CCTV, but “couldn’t see the number plate”. Which begs the question, what’s the bloody point of CCTV if the picture isn’t good enough to get the registration? :crazy:
Just got a call from the police. The CCTV was too low quality to make out the reg on the van. So what the flying frack is the point in CCTV?
If it’s too low of a quality for reg number then it’s too low of a quality for face recognition surely. Pointless bit of CCTV that. Fingers crossed rixxy has some good news for you though.
**** luck mate.
I’m in N5 - whereabouts was it nicked?
I’ll keep an eye out anyway.
Ronalds Road, just off Drayton Park.
I feel your pain mate having been there myself. Hope you get it back.
…and genuinely hope the human turds who stole it die a very slow and very painful death.