Ducati stolen

I have one of those crap houses where you can only get to the back via
the garage - and the door at the end is too small.

Mind you, I have been thinking of having that enlarged.

 

"Back a bit... a bit more... another foot..."

*CRUNCH*

"Stop."

 

I had that problem with an XJS when I was living in Milton Kenyes. It
would actually fit, but with bare inches to spare, and only if you
didn't want to open the wall-side door once it was in. Best of luck.

 

The width shouldn't be too much of a problem but some strategically
placed softboard on the walls to prevent accidental door and front bumper
scrapes just in case...

 

I intend to put some front bumper height softboard on the wall to ease
the car against. I just hope I can get the garage door shut...

 

One of the garages I rented would take the Giulietta. Except if you
drove it all the way in, you couldn't get out cos of the brick pillar. I
had to drive in part way, get out, then push it in the rest of the way.

Tricky to get out as well.

Now it lives in a container.

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I've been considering this solution - buy a cheap plot of land locally
and stick a couple of short containers on it.

However, I've experienced significant amounts of condensation in
containers during cold weather - have you had any issues?

 

Did you number the bricks?

 

Hang a tennis ball on a piece of string such that it touches the
windscreen at the appropriate point.

 

No, I was merely commenting that there is a non-noisy way which is known
to the more experienced thief.

OTOH, it probably does not matter.
A few yonks ago a friend rented a small industrial unit from the local
council but there were no keys. We turned up in the day on a busy
trading estate, took a generator off the van, attacked the "secure"
padlocks with an angle grinder and opened the place up.
Nobody even asked what we were doing.

 

Easy. Just fit a door with a power bulge.

 

Containers themselves are not cheap. They're also pretty easy to break
into. Yes you can put a big FOAD lock through the handles, but it's
pretty easy to chop through the door hinges. Been on the receiving end
of that several times.

 

Didn't know about the hinges - we have the type which have a couple of
loops for a sturdy padlock 'boxed in' with some seriously thick steel.

From what I've seen, containers and land are cheaper than buying a
garage, though.

 

After a spate of break-ins, we moved to using custom made bolt/hasp
mechanisms which required a mathcing tool to open. There were 4 tools,
one each in Chicago and LA, one in the European site and one with the
forwarder in case Customs needed access.

Some scrotes tried to break into one, failed, but did enough damage
that I had to set about it witha cutting disk. Well, severa disks to be
truthful. I seem to recall it took almost 2 hours to get though it.

I'm surprised you can pick up land that cheap, but I guess you are in
Wales. What's it like getting insurance for said storage?

 

No idea - not asked.

There is land in abundance around here, just not many garages.

Garages in modern houses are shite, and I can't work out why you can't
buy 3 bed houses with double garages.

Although most of my neighbours are (or have) converted the garage to a
2nd lounge - so that probably answers my question above.

 

Is this the chavs on a pre-xmas shopping trip, thats 2 in a week.

 

Just steal it.....

 

I'd be looking to find apiece of land that I could get planning
permission to build garages on.

Because double/triple garages weren't necessary until 'recently'.

 

My ex-missus had her Yamaha Passola shopping scooter nicked from behind
the Nurses home flats in Norwich way back in 1992. We reported it
stolen but weren't able to claim because it had no MOT or tax and
wasn't insured. Even if it was road legal the excess would have been
four times what the value of the bike was because it was a fucking shed
of a machine that had been abused and neglected every day my ex had
used it.

Three years later my sister in law calls me to say there's a letter
from DVLC for me at her house, which is where I'd registered the
Passola in my name for some reason; turns out someone was applying for
a reg document for it. I immediately contacted the DVLA and the local
police to say it was my bike and I wanted it back. Local plod were very
helpful and so were DVLA. Within two days I had an address in Kings
Lynn where the bike was. So I borrowed the works van and went out to
collect it.

When I got there the moped the guy pulled out of his shed was an
immaculate example of a Passola, so totally unlike the one that had
been nicked from us, but it had the right engine and frame number, so
in the van it went. Turns out the guy with the bike had bought it from
a local lad who 'did little bikes up'. He got arrested for the theft
after police raided his home and a lock up and found both places
crammed with nicked bikes. There were three Passolas making ours up,
but luckily for me they'd only used the engine and frame off ours,
everything else came off two very nice condition ones.

That little Passola is still going, I see it every now and then running
between town and the village my mum lives in.

 

Hmm, TBAH I've not been up there for about 18 months. Thanks for giving
me something to worry about

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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
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