its probably one of our worst nitemares.. you wake up and open the garage door to find your pride and joy gone...

how many of you pay serious thought to securing your bike? i personally think alarms arent worth the money, because any would be theif could lift the bike into a big van and be off with your bike.. i thinkit was ride magazine tha that did a few sets ups pretending to steal bikes in daylight ona busy high street and i thinkhardly anyone tried to stop them or question what they were doing as they lifted bikes into the back on a white transit with alarms blaring...

first thing i bougfht for my triumph was a alpha dot marking kit., only about £20 and acts as a deterent

i think the £200- £300 that you can spend on a "decent" alarm is much better spent on securing the bike. I for one have a massive close-link chain going through a ground anchor which then goes  round the front wheel. i have a cheapalarm but that only to alert me if someone trys to move the bike while trying to cut the chain off! unfortunatly ihave to park mybike outside at the moment, so i always try to cover it too.. out of sight, out of mind etc etc. .

what about when u go out? i tend to carry a disc lock and a cable lock under the seat of the bike, and if i go inot the town i always try and find something to put the cable locj through.. lamposts are normally good!

now i could go throught the almost limitless options of locks, alarms, ground anchors etc but i won't,  this is just to get you all thinking..

next time you have 5 minutes try this.. imagine your a wouldbe burgular, how easy would it be to wheel your bike up the road and into a van without being detected?

have you ever had a bike stolen? if so tell us all about it.. did you ever get it back?  do you have a garage like fort knox?

anyone fitted a tracker system to there bike?

Back garden, chain and fecking great nasty dog ala Blackjets pets.


Alarms do not stop thieves.  if they did then feck all bikes would ever get stolen on account on the majority of them being alarmed.  Alarms are a deterrant but if you happen to be a top boy in the local firm then an alarm would be about as frightening as a jelly placed on the seat.  they alarm YOU and that's the main benefit. Mainly if your bike is flah=shing a red led at the would-be thieveing feckpiece and the bike next to it isnt - it doesnt take genius.

All the bikes in the top ten thieved have mandatory thatcham ones on them and they all still retain their position in the charts regardless.

I concur that the way to go is anything you have to to keep the vampire insurance at bay and then concentrate on your main overnight security.  In a building of some sort and locked to the floor in some way.  At least make it difficult.



As with everything in life - if they want it they will ultimately get it. Your job is to put them off a bit.

The bike is locked with a chain and a cable. My biggest problem is when travelling into town. There is no storage on the viffer and if I want to take a chain or cable with me, I have to take the tailpack. Bike theft isn't a major issue around here, which probably makes us complacent. I did get my brother to make me up a ground anchor from mild steel. He works in the shipyards, so heavy steel, cutting torches and welding gear are all easy to come by.

I've only had one bike stolen but it broke my heart. I was 16 at the time and owned an MB5. It wasn't much of a bike but I spent all my spare cash fixing it up. One night I got a puncture late on and left the bike at a 24hr petrol station, while I made my own way home. When I got back the next morning, some git had moved the bike around to the back of the petrol station and stripped loads off stuff off it. To make it easier for themselves, they'd just dropped it on its side, so that they could get the expansion chamber off.

To this day, if I ever find out who did it, I'll open a whole can of whoop ass on the buggers.

Locked garage which is alarmed, ground anchors, Cutoms and Excise padlocks, big F.O chains. No point in alarming or immobilising the bike(s) cos if they get nicked they're not going to be driven away anyway.

While out I have a chain and padlock and a U lock but if you don't chain it to summat then it'll get lifted into a van.

If some scumbag steals my bike tho' he'd better hope I never catch him before, during or after the act :hmm:

Mine's like fort knox.  It is alarmed, but it does my head in!  It's in an alarmed garage, and like Andy's is anchored with a huge chain.  There's also CCTV down the street (dunno if that's a good thing or not).  When she's parked up she's alarmed and U-locked (and before you say it, no I dont have a loverly cover to keep the rain off!).  The places I work have secure car parks, and I park her out the way.

well i dont have a ground anchor
i dont have any chains or locks
i dont even have a bike

but i have a very large trike & 17 dogs

you cant even walk past my trike without me knowing about it.the trike is parked outside my house & i sleep downstairs.

when it is started the whole street knows about so no one is going to touch it.

I did have a bike stolen when i lived inwest london.

750/4 hard tail chop it was.

was missing for about 8 hours before it was seen being stripped outside a house about 10 miles away.

needless to say i went round there with a few mates & had some fun.

carry a lock under the seat - used to lock the bike to ground anchor iin garden, but we did the garden uop so it gets attached to the fence now

i knew one bloke who chained his bike to one of those metal lamp posts.. came back to find the lamp post had been cut down and his pride and joy gone. leaving the 15-20ft post laying on the ground!

just goes to show if someones determined enough to nick your bike they will!!  :O

I spent ages widening the shed door and fitting 3 locks to it when i got my new bike,stood looking really smug then realised all a scum bag would have to do is unscrew the hinges  :p
Its got a disk lock and cctv in the back garden cause the neighbours a wank!,im gona buy a chain this week from busters but im not gona spend to much because they will still get it if they want it.

Well... I haven't been using anything whilst out and about (generally because I rarely stop anywhere and if I do I can usually see the bike... I miss it if it's not next to me you see :p ) but...

It resides in a heated garage... with a dual zone alarm that's linked to the police... which is nice Mind you, so's the rest of the house as it's a post office masquerading as a bookshoppe

Oh... and they'd have to get past the Sierra to get to the bike and who could resist that tempting morsel being taken for a spin :verysad:

Has anyone ever seen those shotgun cartridge things?  They fire a cartridge into the air if someone trip s them - it must be like the Nam in your garage!

all of mine/ours are well secure, alarmed garage, alarmed ZZR, ground anchor, u locks, disc locks, big FO chains (Ride approved) Tip though, try (not easy I know) to fix any chain through a frame or round the engine & not just through a wheel-wheels are easy to remove-m8 went down to his yard one morning to find the back wheel still chained-but no Nighthawk attached to back wheel.

Mine's got a System 3 alarm which seems pretty good. Keep the bike in a workshop as well so it's fairly safe.

I also put a little Kryptonite Evo disc lock through the chain wheel - and when I do I put the wallet it came with over the throttle grip, using it's velcro, to remind me not to ride off with it on.

Ging glad someone found a use for that aviator..


well the trike has gone.

couple of prospects came round today with a big car trailer & took it over to the workshop in Watford.

so all being well i should get it back in about 8 -10 weeks completely rebuilt & looking fine.

but cant get used to not seeing it outside the front door.

oh well i will be able to get the van there now.

In case you didn't work it out   :p   :

Down to B&Q, handfull of nuts and bolts.

Through the screw holes and shed wood, double-nut (ie two nuts with the second tightened against the first) on inside.