Almost stolen

Someone or some people tried to knock off my bike last night, they smashed
the barrel apart trying to get the steering lock off on my Kawasaki

Guess they were amatures cause it didn't get nicked... They tried again a
couple of months back and failed (they opened the back gate of our car
park ready to wheel it out. Thank christ for the steering lock! They also
didn't try to go for the cars that were there (ones without immobilsers),
kinda odd.

It lives in a corner of my unit's car park under cover (the only bit that
is under cover) and it is not in plain site of my unit, only a few at the
end of the block.

Anyway, I really don't wanna see it stolen (excess on insurance is a
rort), so I wanna come up with some anti-theft thought or device or
something that would make a would be theif think better of stealing this
bike.

Any ideas?

 

one of these may help.

http://members.westnet.com.au/smiley_b1/disc_locks.htm

David
Aussie Discs
http://www.aussiediscs.com.au

 

mount a decent lump of steel to the concrete then a burst proof lock and
chain through it and the bike... and a LOUD alarm ( wont stop the pro's
sadly)

 

Think about a _good_ alarm with a remote that will notify you if the
bike is tampered with.

G-S

 

Move

 

you need to chain it to a pole or a concrete anchor

also look at Scorpio Alarms , about $500 which also have a pager which
alerts when someone is with your bike

as you have already found out these are amatuer attempts, keep an eye out in
your area for a beaten or crashed version of your bike

if it was pros the bike would be long gone

 

BTH?

sorry cant see the white through the donuts

did you paint the whole thing white ?

most bikes are stolen for parts

 

....and a baseball bat.

 

Put me down for the XN15 (with ausmoto discount) with the discs I'm slowly
getting round to ordering, please David!

 

What makes you think they care?

Theo

 

An alarm that makes a horrible noise

 

Im thinking that one of these with a sticker near the barrel saying "This
motorcycle is fitted with an anti-theft disc lock and alarm" might do the
trick, preventing attempts...

Do these things come with such a sticker? If not, any suggestions where I
could get one made?

 

This may work! Takes a bit of effort so try get your fellow residents to
assist with the setup as they have a stake in this too.

1/ Get a cheap but reliable second hand computer (we will save the
discussions on that till a little later) make sure it is at least Windows ME
or better XP compatible as there is lots of good surveillance shareware
around that go well with windows and has at least 40 GB hard drive.

2/ Get a web cam, surveillance cam or a spy cam and set it up in a concealed
area focusing toward your bike.

3/ Connect your concealed camera to your second hand computer which you also
may need to conceal.

4/ Set up your spy ware to record on movement sensor mode and a 24 hr
refresh with the highest res it will allow. Make sure you have a wide enough
angle or viewing area to see clearly and be able to identify anyone who
visits the area. Amateurs quite often visit an area they are going to steel
from so you may have even seen them around once before.

5/ Make sure your bike is secure but still tempting and try not to draw
attention to your surveillance setup. Check the setup from time to time to
ensure it is still working.

6/ On the day you come home and find your bike has been tampered with,
immediately check your surveillance footage and capture then print the
clearest image of the offender.

7/ Find out who they are and go and beat the absolute crap out of
them!!!!!!!

Worked for me. ;-)

 

No they don't come with a sticker. Not sure where you could get a sticker
from.

Smiley
Aussie Discs
http://www.aussiediscs.com.au

 

Exactly. When my bike got stolen, the only thing the bloody cops were
good for was giving me a police report number to give my insurance
company. "We'll keep a look out for it", they said...

Damien
GPX250 -> CBR600 -> F650/R1200GS (when the $$$ are there!)

 

Stop making shit up, please.

 

We had a PC with 4 surveillance cameras in two rooms where I work. Great
system, the hard drives store about 4 days of footage from all cameras. The
multi camera card and software cost a fair bit at the time. It worked great
some thieves broke the door down in the office and stole the computer
itself. The replacement is locked up out of sight.

Al

 

I've enjoyed the idea of an electric net!

justAL

 

Kinky!

 

I've seen advertised recently a gadget that you leave sitting inside
somewhere, when it is moved or tilted it dials your phone. Should be easy to
chuck one under the seat.

You can get all sorts of things to bolt it to the ground.

And somebody makes a metal cabinet like a small lawn locker. It bolts to the
concrete then locks up securely around the bike. The have some sort of
insurance/guarantee against theft.