People messing with your bike?

[BigChickenStrips]

around here kids will dump dirt in ur gas tank or engine crankcase, the locking gas cap will keep them outta the gas tank, but no bike has a lock on the oil cap in ur crankcase, mostly they do it to Harleys sitting outside of the bars, so if ur pulling ur bike into a bar parking lot and some kids are standing there, I would be nice to them and don't act like a big tough biker and try to threaten them not to touch ur bike. I go to the same bar and they never touched my bike.

What sort of ghetto do you live in??!

+1

kid or not. mess with my bike and your taking a helmet to the skull and i dont mean in the protective way.

[Venarius]

Thats why I just put a Scorpio I-500 on my bike.

If you get too close or try to even lean over the bike (without even touching it) it'll scare you away with a 120 db siren...and let me know to run out of the place and kick your "O Ring" too!

[MotoF150]

[quote="NorthernPete" touched my bike.[/quote]

What sort of ghetto do you live in??!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,[/quote] Its in central PA, the problem is everybody around here is on drugs, kids on drugs will hang out at bars asking for money for a fix, I mean everybody is doing drugs, even ur own mother, I know parents that buy drugs for their own kids. The druggies know guys that own expensive bikes have money

[SPDSTR]

When I get my bike, I'll also be buying either a baseball bat or a lead pipe, along with the other security features.

[Brackstone]

Thats why I just put a Scorpio I-500 on my bike.

If you get too close or try to even lean over the bike (without even touching it) it'll scare you away with a 120 db siren...and let me know to run out of the place and kick your "O Ring" too!

How would that work in a city area though? Just out of curiosity?

Do people walking by on the sidewalk set it off? What if someone crosses the street near it?

Just asking cause I'd like to have an alarm eventually but I live in an are where foot traffic can be heavy.

I'm sure if passers by set off a 120dB alarm they are just going to kick over my bike cause it pisses them off.

[Apollofrost]

I bought two of those noise makers from home depot, the ones you stick on your window so that nobody can open or break them with out them going off. One's pressure sensitive and the other's one where you remove the magnet and it screams at you with a 90db siren.

I'm going to see about wiring one to a $20 tracfone so that it'll call me when somebody messes with it.

[coelomate]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned bike covers - it does almost nothing to stop somebody who's determined, but it makes it much less likely that somebody will mess with it for fun and it will definitely make the bike less of a target, and for only 20-30 bucks that seems like a good deal to me.

It also seems like locking a bike past its fork locks isn't going to add much of anything besides the risk of accidentally trying to ride off with the lock installed...