Make and model: Yamaha TMax 2010 - Grey
Reg: LD10 CVW
I was so happy yesterday, I collected the keys to my first own home ever, started moving my stuff last night by bike, then it was late, parked it on street as usual and went to bed.
This morning at around 5.10, my flatmate gets up to take a pee, looks outside the window, comes to my room and wakes me up asking where my bike was. I look outside the window, and it’s gone.
Reported the theft to the police and the insurance straight away.
I’m so upset I feel like crying, it couldn’t happen in a worse moment with the move and all. Plus I don’t wanna think of having to go back using public transport, that’s so depressing and such a waste of time.
Sorry to hear this. I live 2 mins up the road from you and had my r6 stolen in April. My mate had his scooter stolen from mannock road 2 weeks later. Theft is rife!
Now I’d like to get a new one but other than a sturdy chain and something fixed to chain it to, what other security devices would you recommend? Alarm? GPS tracker? …?
I want to catch those bastards in case they try again!!! >:[
From the stories I’ve heard, getting yourself a 19mm Almax chain and chaining your bike to something that can’t be easily picked up and put in the back of a van, along with your bike, is your best bet. Anything else doesn’t really deter tea-leafs from picking the bike up and putting it in a van - although the more the merrier when it comes to security.
19mm Almax chains can’t be cropped so the only way to get it off is with an angle grinder which would probably draw a bit of attention at 2am outside your house I would imagine?
Get a Scorpio i900 or rLink i-1100 alarm both of them have remote notifications so you will get an instant message to the alarm’s remote or to your mobile phone depending on which model you opt for.
Also the rLink is a very good GPS tracker. I’ve used both alarms now as I couldn’t find anything decent in the UK at the time and I don’t even rate decent names like DataTool much.
They’re very advanced alarms and available from www.stateofarms.com in the UK which started offering them a year ago. I upgreaded to the rLink and it works great. I’ve had two attempts to fiddle with my Hornet and foiled both of them. One was at 3am but I got the text message and went running outside and they took off up the road.
Physical security I’ve only got a Xena disc lock and it’s pretty solid.
Call me a sceptic, but anything that just bolts in to the ground isn’t that secure if you ask me. I prefer the idea of something you can concrete in - something like the concave built in gound anchor at the bottom of this page:
Dig a big enough hole - wider at the bottom - then cement one of those ground anchors in and put your block work or whatever back over the top, leaving you with just two holes to thread your chain through - nothing to cut through with a torch or angle grinder apart from your chain, and harder to pull out of the ground than something that is just bolted in.
The anchor I described has a drain pipe to prevent it from filling up with water, the anchor above has a part that could be cut with a torch or angle grinded.
EDIT: I think ratcatcher (?) may offer an ‘anchor install service’
Choice between maybe having to occasionally clear out some leaves from the tube, or having an anchor that can be cut/grinded - i know which I’d choose :Whistling:
indeed, but the less options you give them to cut/grind through, the better imho. I don’t know enough about the shackles on those other anchors - are they as strong as an Almax chain? A thief will always take the route of least resistance, so they could perhaps just cut thorugh the shackle if it is the weakest link, then pick your bike up and put it in a van.
