I’ll be back on the saddle before you know it! The ECU will not have been damaged, and as I have the master key, all I need to do is pay for new locks and barrel (£90 + labour + recovery). So, all in all, I’m looking at a bill of £250-£300 (+£100 for the leg cover) just because some toerag decided to try to steal my bike.
Bring back the death penalty…
It always makes me sad to hear news like this. I’m just glad that you stopped them actually taking the bike!
Good luck getting it sorted! 
Just read the post paivi, It seems that nothing is safe nowdays!!! what a total pain in the rear you have had to go through, just because some lazy low life scum MF’ers wanted your bike…Makes me sick, then to rub salt in the police can’t be bothered. Tell me why do we pay our tax’s ?? Anyway hope you get it all sorted soon…
Keep smilling
The courtyard you mention where your bike is keeped, do you share it with others? if so can’t you all get together and put some xtra locks on? so only you have the keys instead of all sorts of people? Just an idea…
Maybe get one of these…
FingerLock TS-370 Fingerprint Dead Bolt
Enroll up to 25 users, including 5 managers. Features auto locking option, low battery warning and alarm function, retails for $395.00.
The problem is that we’re 23 flats in the courtyard, and then a few shops have access to it from their properties, as it’s their fire exit. Additionally, another 10 or so flats have it as their fire exit. I’m just not quite sure why all these people have been given keys by the managing agent, as a fire exit is just that, an exit. They are abusing their access rights by using the courtyard as an entrance.
This was an inside job, I’m afraid. But, as the police couldn’t be bothered to turn up to fingerprint the bike and the door (the bike was kept out of sight in a little enclosure, as people complain if I keep the bike in the courtyard proper), no fingerprints will be found any longer. They only rang me this morning and realised that it was not just vandalism but an attempted theft, which is much more serious, but at the same time, admitted it was too late to do anything about it now.
The bike will be picked up from Cezar’s tomorrow morning, and hopefully I’ll get it back tomorrow night or at least during Wednesday, as today’s commute was exhausting! And costly: round trip: £6.60. My weekly petrol: approximately the same, if not a bit less! Plus, today I arrived at work grumpy and tired, and at home grumpy, tired and angry at my fellow commuters.
Spoke to my insurance company who said 90% of the time they’ll reimburse me even if I get the bike fixed before making a claim, as they appreciate I may need transport asap, and if I wait before I claim, it may take two weeks. So, once I get the final bill, I’ll decide whether to claim or not.
Glad the 'ped got sorted back to safety and hopefully the insurance bods will keep their end of the bargain. Really hard lines Paivi, but it’s character building stuff.
Not quite as much as superglue-ing the blighter’s nads but comes second.
Well, the bike is fixed. At least, I think so: the lock turns with the new keys. Pity the muppets at BMG Richmond let whatever was left of the battery drain, so it wouldn’t start!
They delivered the bike to their shop in the Fulham Road, which is just too far for me to push it home (it weighs close to 150kg). I don’t particularly want to leave it there either, as I’m not convinced it’s safe. Also, it didn’t look particularly stable there, and as it will apparently be really windy, I think I might find it horizontal in the morning.
So, I have to call the breakdown people again to come and jumpstart it so I can move it the half a mile home, and as the roads are wet, I’m exhausted from all the long commuting on the tube this week and I’m dog sitting for my neighbour, I can’t exactly go for a long spin either to charge it up, so no doubt I’ll be calling them again tomorrow morning!
And the silly thing is that I have one of those charger packs, but one that has to be kept plugged in at the mains to charge the battery. So, I suppose I could always go back to the bike, take the battery (not that I know how to, but I suppose I could always try), bring it home, charge it for a couple of hours and then take it back to the bike. Do I really want to start doing that kind of stuff in the dark, though?
Paivi,
Kinda up to the eyballs tomorrow but if you need a hand on sat then give me a shout. A mate of mine has one of those portable jump start things so could bring that along if needs be.
Mo
Hi Paivi, 1st of all, sorry to hear about what happened with your scooter. I have been in a similar situation with mine and I can understand you.
Now, the battery on the scooter is not that easy to discharge, so,before you call them to collect it, maybe you should speak to them about it first. I only have ET2, but sometimes I don’t use it for months and it always starts from 1st try.
Also, see if they can charge it in the shop, after all, your battery was fully charged when they’ve taken the bike.
If they dont respond, look in the manual and see what battery you have, as I have spare one(although I doubt it is the same, but you never know).
The battery is so easy to take off on them, if you need any help, let me know, I only live over the bridge.
Good luck!
lucky13, we’ve already been to see them, they seem like a great bunch. I think I’ll be using them for their services for my recent RTA.
Just read this thread. should have called me, have both van and glue remover.
Sorry, too little too late. Glad you got sorted though.
Huge thanks to Matt, aka Mini Mo, who stepped in tonight to help the damsel in distress, and moved my bike from where the BMG people had left it to a bay near my house.
Having said that, youth today… He’d only been pushing my tiny little scoot for not even a mile and he was already complaining about how heavy it was… So we had to ask couple of passing girl scouts to give us a hand… I didn’t want to, as they were both on crutches and one had a broken arm as well, but Matt just couldn’t do it any longer. So he sat on the seat and the two 8-year-olds pushed him and the bike.
Just kidding, the bike is seriously heavy, and also wide, making it quite difficult to push. I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it, I’d probably have started and then ended up dropping it.
So, grazie mille Matt! Molto gentile!
Think it was more the screen acting as a sail in the wind and rain 
Pleasure and glad to have been of service.
Let me know if you need a hand on Sat.
M
Sometimes I think the only way I get 50mph + off it is to get the wind behind me and hoist up the windscreen, and use the leg cover as an additional sail too.
Glad to hear that you solved your problem Paivi! 
I’m even gladder to see what a bunch of good guys there are on the LB! To name just a few, Matt, Cezar, ChrisDee and, of course, the gorgeous gentleman Guy!
