Security chains

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Mick Whittingham, Nov 6, 2003.

  1. Risking being called a Pikie, ALDI are doing Draper FOAD security chains
    suitable for a bike for under £8 this week.
     
    Mick Whittingham, Nov 6, 2003
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  2. It's 10mm link 1.2 meters long sheathed in plastic, normally retailing
    at about £30+? without out lock.

    Any better?
     
    Mick Whittingham, Nov 6, 2003
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    dwb Guest

    Depends on what it is.

    I'd trust a piece of iron pipe to keep my garage door shut, and you can get
    that for £0.
     
    dwb, Nov 6, 2003
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    Pip Guest

    Depends for the large part on how convincing it looks, ITF. Yer
    average scroat may well be put off from having a go at a bike that
    appears to be shackled to the Earth's core by a big old lump of FOAD
    chain - and just go to the next one that is free to lift and heave
    into a van.

    That's all most security measures are, let's face it. A means of
    making thieves go elsewhere - for if they really want it, they'll
    fucking have it, no matter what obstacles you put in their way.
     
    Pip, Nov 6, 2003
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    athomik Guest

    Get a dozen. Any thieving git will take one look and go off to find
    something less time consuming to nick.
     
    athomik, Nov 6, 2003
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  6. You really are a popular guy.
    What do you do to get so much antagonism from the local scroats?
     
    ColonelTupperware, Nov 6, 2003
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    Perhaps someone was egging them on?
     
    Pip Luscher, Nov 6, 2003
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    Owen Guest

    ALDI? I can bet that there isn't one in Reading, or I'd have a couple
    myself... :-(
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    Owen, Nov 6, 2003
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    ColonelTupperware wibbled...
    You've not met Rope, have you?

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    Lozzo, Nov 7, 2003
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    dwb Guest

    Bike manufactures shave weight everywhere... only to then have users go and
    stick 40kg of chain on it :)
     
    dwb, Nov 7, 2003
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    Zymurgy Guest

    <fx: Nods>

    That's the reason I have stoplocks on both my cages. I mean it'd take
    20 seconds to snap the steering wheel to get it out, but it's still
    20s longer than popping next door and nicking one without.

    Not had a cage nicked yet.... :) [1]

    Cheers.

    Paul.

    [1] Not that anyone would want to having seen my 'stable' :))) [2]
    [2] But it stops the Friday/Saturday night pissheads who can't afford
    a taxi home.
     
    Zymurgy, Nov 7, 2003
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  12. A bit like this:

    Two guys on safari get lost and find themselves confronting a pride of
    lions and not a gun between them.
    One guy sits down and starts to put a pair of running shoes on (he just
    happened to have in his back pack)
    The other guy laughs at him.
    "You don't for one minute think you're going to out run those lions do
    you?"
    "No" say the guy "Just as long as I can run faster than you!"
     
    Mick Whittingham, Nov 7, 2003
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    athomik Guest

    That's why the Oxford Monster stays in the garage and if I go out, I try to
    park where I can keep an eye on the bike.
     
    athomik, Nov 7, 2003
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    athomik Guest

    Nothing like a bit of vintage comedy to liven up a Friday afternoon.
     
    athomik, Nov 7, 2003
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    WorkTOG Guest

    They read his postings?
     
    WorkTOG, Nov 7, 2003
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    Pip Guest

    Pip, Nov 8, 2003
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    Timbo Guest

    FFS Don't start that again!
     
    Timbo, Nov 8, 2003
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    Ginge Guest

    Indeed, it's no yolk.
     
    Ginge, Nov 8, 2003
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    christofire Guest

    Oh smashing. Here we go again.
     
    christofire, Nov 8, 2003
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  20. Mick Whittingham

    Wik Guest

    [snip]

    Fucking hell.

    I heard the term "mischief night" for the first time on the evening news
    last week when some scrotes lobbed a lit firework at an unmarked police
    car.

    Is it one of those made-up things, y'know, like a "Hallmark Holiday"?

    If so, could we then have "Kicking-seven-shades-of-shit-out-of-toerags
    night"?
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    Wik, Nov 8, 2003
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