Just want to find out what security features you have gotten for your bikes.
Not sure what to get for mine.
I know I would want an alarm but not sure what else. Also what alarm is best to get installed?
Does anyone know what else I would need?|
Just want to find out what security features you have gotten for your bikes.
Not sure what to get for mine.
I know I would want an alarm but not sure what else. Also what alarm is best to get installed?
Does anyone know what else I would need?|
Cover (get a heat proof one, so you can put it on your bike immediately), good quality chain (e.g., Almax) and a lamp post. Alarm? Are you within hearing distance? Are your neighbours likely to be curious and check what’s going on if they hear it going off? Ground anchor if you can. Grizzly bears are good, too, but make lousy pillions.
I’ll let that be a surprise to the scroat who tries to pinch mine, they will get a shock
Yeah. The bike will be parked just outside my bedroom window
Cheers Paivi
How about all that tracker stuff??
Some alarms send you a txt message too - although I’m not to sure I’d like to get a txt telling me my bikes being nicked if I’m in a different part of town…
Chain is a must and a dic lock and the cover - anything visible will at times deter a casual thief although not a pro - as if the bike isn’t secured to a solid object they will just lift it away and then its good night…
I suppose you have to weigh up the cost of the security compared to the cost of the bike and any discounts for having the secuirty too.
There are some installers of fine bike security on this site I’m sure they’ll pipe up soon.
OK put it this way then …get a slobbering bull mastiff for bike company…! Or trash it like i have !!
Ive got a Data Evo on mine and that’s good. Not much else really apart form a disc lock when I go out and chain (if I remember!) so I can chain it to another bike. Bloke at work has one of those systems which texts you in case of bike movement and it’s very good apparently.
Blade
I will never get on the wrong side of you
Ever
Chocfawn, take it from me as someone who has been careless enough to loose 3 bikes. All the security in the world will not stop two blokes lifting your pride and joy into the back of a van. As Paivi said, get a very very good chain and lock it through your frame (not wheel) and onto a ground anchor. My R6 had every gadjet know to man but was nicked from outside my local pub at mid day on a Sat with punters sitting at tables next to the road. The Landlord who I know well asked the two “gentlemen” what they were doing to my bike as the alarm had gone off and was told that I had called them to recover the bike as it had broken down. 6 months old and 4500 on the clock, Akro, dynojetted and loved and cared for. Offered £2000 less than I paid for it by the insurance, thank God I had GAP insurance.
If you park it in the street consider one of the mobile text alert alarms and chain it to something.
Buy a baseball bat!!
I haven’t bothered with an alarm, no one does anything when an alarm goes off around here so I didn’t see the point. I do keep my bike chained to a tree with an Almax chain. Its currently chained through a wheel though, I’m not sure how to get it through the frame?
You might need a longer one. What bike is it again? Any gaps at all?
Oh and the chain thing. If you can ‘they’ say you shouldn’t allow the lock to rest on the ground or be able to moved to the ground as this allows it to be smashed / twisted. Even some good chains can be broken by a twisting technique so taking up any slack might help to.
However as has already been said you can have all the security in the world…
The comments about all security in the world is SO SO true…ive had 2 bikes stolen one from OUTSIDE my house and the other from just at side of house by front door? So yes, it doesnt matter, they will get it. A friend had a bike in their garage, in FRONT of their car? They got the bike OVER the car to get it out !!!
With the tracker, the wind only has to blow on bike and they call you ! And i guess the only peace of mind is that as soon as bikes nicked and in someones van tearing down the motorway, they start the tracking on it and hopefully u will get it back in one piece.
Comments about no one taking any notice of alarm going off, is so true as well…amazing how no one cares, except if another biker is walking along and hears/sees it. Personally if i saw two men carrying a bike, and they said they were collecting it for the owner as it had broken down…i wouldnt believe them and call the police or run into the pub/club and ask if anyone has left their bike outside! Better to be shown up as a fool than to have them nick someones pride and joy?
i have no security other than the local scrotes know its mine …better than a rottweiller…
What bike have you got/getting ?
my friend chris had seventeen locks and chains on his R1 in a garage parked next to a fireblade without any security…you guessed it. they stole his R1…no accounting for taste…
Sod it. I might have to keep my bike in a storage cupboard then
Will just get chain and alarm.
So that means if out and about will have to carry chain too??
That is pretty scary.
That can be sorted out by extreme violence with a baseball bat/taser but then I’d probably get arrested.
I think more people just need to look out for people acting suspiciously around bikes but then again a lot of people dont really care
Almax do a chain bag that will go on your back seat, should come with the chain. If not I have one you can have.
Best security - don’t leave it out of sight if possible. Or trash it like Blade did - no one’s gonna nick it now girl LoL !
Otherwise as has been said already, and read this article http://londonbikers.com/article/d6feff62-3a73-4a24-8b74-86261b702cd6
You’ll get a tenner off Almax if you mention us, and their number is in the directory.
Talk to Charly about an alarm and / or Tracker for discount, a good job done and unnecessary flirting. (not necessarily in that order)
And then remember not to come online and tell us and any rogues reading what you’ve had done. Cough ahem
PS - Macp’s advice about a dic lock is not really applicable to you methinks.
Cheers Andrew
That reminds me Smiled knows my exact location. Will have to sort him out