I'm looking for some security for my FZS600 It has an immobilizer but no locks on it just yet and need to get some asap.

What do you guys use / recommend?

I've used Abus and Almax locks and chains; apart from manufacturers claims about strength they've never been 'attacked' in the first place and so I assume they're good. A hefty chain and padlock is always a good visual deterrent.
Disc locks are good if you're only leaving the bike for short(ish) periods; just make sure you have a reminder to remove it before trying to ride away!

Thanks Blue, I'll go look up Abus and Almax and thanks for the tip about the reminder. I always wondered why people had seemingly pointless wire running from disc locks to the handlebars. Makes sense now There are so many to choose from it's hard to know which are worth the money and which will do just as good a job

I wrap an elastic band round the shaft of the key as a simple reminder for the rare occasion I use a disc lock. Remove the disc lock & wrap the elastic band round it for next time.

Mrs 849 just remembers about her disc lock without using any kind of reminder, all the time; until one day she forgets & ends up looking silly.

Another Abus and Almax fan here, BTW.

almax are good. bloody heavy and the only weak spot in the chain is the lock. although the squire stronghold (squires flagship lock) is damn big and heavy

Oxford chains are pretty good too - I've got a Monster chain and a Monster disc lock - both have worked - i.e the bike never got nicked

DAMN BLOODY DISK LOCKS ARGHHHHHHH.


this is the forth time now I have parked up, done some shopping, come back and forgot to take it off, think I might have done some damage to my fork :/ fekking hell.

that means I've gotta take it to honda, (got a free check up voucher from the honda stand at the NEC for a whole bike check up for bikes under 450cc)

the springy reminder things are a good idea, just need to find mine :/

As Base says just use a laggy band. If you wrap it round your key so you cant put it in the ignition it will instantly remind you

Good thing a bike thief never decided he wanted the bike.

I have a couple of Almax chains & rate them pretty highly- they look intimidating and well built. I like that it's a small Brit business; but in a group test by MCN they weren't quite so bomb proof as Almax portray on their web site. But certainly good enough to persuade a bike thief to choose an easier target, which would be all the other chains (or bikes with no physical security).

No security is ever 100% guaranteed - if you make the security too good you could end up putting yourself in danger as the determined thief may decide that you (as the rider) is the weakest link and try to take it with force..

All you are ever trying to do with security is make it not worth the effort, hopefully there will be easier targets around the corner from you.

Got an Almax chain and it provides great security at home but it's far too big and heavy to carry around so I use a disc lock when away from home. To ensure I don't try and ride off with the lock still attached, I put my bike keys in the disc storage pouch!

I've got so much bike security stuff it's untrue but I only ever use an Oxford disklock. I used to carry a dirty great English chain company mother chain and a Cisa lock around with me but it weighs a ton and I got filthy putting it on. It would get all the crap from the wheels on the plastic sleeve and onto my hands.
It depends where you're leaving the bike. Where I used to live peoples cars and bikes were regularly tampered with or nicked and I'd have 2 U locks, a disk lock,alarm and the chain on the bike.
Where I live now we have none of that and I just put it in the garden with the disk lock on.
From past experience I know that a casual thief will nick any bike if they feel like it if there's no physical security on it.
Typing this has made me realise just how complacent I've got so I've just popped out and bunged the locks on. Just don't lose the keys!

If I hadn't put the U lock on I wouldn't have just noticed that a fork seal is leaking.

Another one here who has a stupid level of security

Abus chain, Oxford disc, Alarm, Immobiliser, and with my old R1, I wouldn't park it anywhere I had to leave it for longer than 30 mins

If we are jsut parking up when out we use the disc locks and putt he alarms on. If we are away overnight we usually take a chain as well and lock the bikes together! Like Hobo I put the ignitiion key in the disc lock cover so that I can't forget to take it off!

Ok perhaps I have just been lucky but this is what I have been doing, I put steering lock on, I also use a disklock with an audible alarm, so if they take that off with their plumbers freezing tools the disk is f*cked. the alarm has been deterrrent enough. I now have a bike that has a built in immobiliser, the key entry is obscured, the steering lock, the disk lock hopefully enough to deter the desperate hoodies..

I'm sure this link has been on before..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpf35C7wu6Q

As you probably know, if you do get a chain, always keep it off the floor and attached to something not easily detatched from the bike, such as around the frame.

Don't buy one of the sh!tty cast metal disc locks which hook around the outer edge of the disc.

Like this



These can be removed in a blink of an eye with a chisel.

Mine is a perculiar shape and you tend to always get brake dust on your hands putting it on but this would be a nightmare to try and remove (touches wood).

I use a Xena alarmed disklock, havnt tried riding off without removing it yet! Probably because if you take the bike of the side stand, the alarm triggers