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This past weekend , both my spousette and I bought disc locks for our scoots .
Regards, Wizzard

Fork lock and a disc lock with alarm. I cant reccomend the alarming disc lock enough. Its not that the alarm part will scare off thieves or even warn me about a theft in progress. What the alarm does is remind me I have a disc lock onto my disc and it keeps me from blissfully riding forward two feet before it stops the wheel. And I tip over.


It is also good for frightening cats and annoying neighbors when a cat jumps onto the seat. But I dont think any cat has done it twice.

and if all that fails buy a sidecarig and lock the forks!!

Please understand, no racism intended in the next comments. In SA biking amongst the black community has not yet caught on, there are a few but most black guys on a bike are delivery riders. So most bikers here are white and we make up a small community and talk a lot. Even the guys that can afford them just are not into biking, so we are lucky, even though we still get nailed by the insurance companies that insist on security. Very popular here is a thing called Tracetec. It is a credit card sized chip which we hide or fibreglass into the bike. There are beacons all around the country and the chip talks to them when we ride past. very hard to get the bikes or even the parts past the border posts. Also lot of new bikes with transponder keys. I have yet to hear of a biker being hijacked, which is a very popular crime here.

sapaul wrote:Very popular here is a thing called Tracetec. It is a credit card sized chip which we hide or fibreglass into the bike. There are beacons all around the country and the chip talks to them when we ride past. very hard to get the bikes or even the parts past the border posts. Also lot of new bikes with transponder keys. I have yet to hear of a biker being hijacked, which is a very popular crime here.

Sounds like a BigBrother society to me.

and as far as

sapaul wrote:Please understand, no racism intended..

How is a bloke's race even related to the conversation?????

sapaul wrote:In SA biking amongst the black community has not yet caught on, there are a few but most black guys on a bike are delivery riders. So most bikers here are white and we make up a small community and talk a lot

No offence, but...

I don't see why you had to mention the fact about the lack of black riders.

If it wasn't meant to be a racist statement, it didn't have to be said...

You intentionally went out of your way to infer you rode solely with whites....


Your reason for this was... ???


Please don't forget the above disclaimer... "No offence, but... "

Just maths, we live in a country that has approx 50 million people, 44 million black and 6 million white. A large proportion of the black community is still on the poverty line. Organised crime has utilised this and recruits from the impoverished black community. One of the largest crimes we have here is car hi jacking. Makes like VW Golf get jacked and go straight to the chop shops for black market parts. Luxury stuff like Mercs get taken over the border. I think the point I was trying to make is that there is no demand for bike parts or bikes. Since 1994 there has been an upswing on the economic scale for a lot of the black community and they get preyed on the same as the white community. We have one of the highest crime rates in the world, but if 10% of each community is criminal, well you do the maths. I am not racist but do live in a country that is in transition and it is sometimes hard to explain facts without sounding biased. The facts are that 99% of the motorcycling community in SA is white. The black community just does not have a motorcycling culture. To try and explain further. The black community and in particular the black taxi association( yes this is what they call themselves) use 15 seater mini buses as taxis. Nobody can buy these as personal transport simply because they will be stolen. The law of supply and demand.

just buy an old bike, instead of standing it using the kickstand. Just gently lie it on it's side. No one will wanna steal a bike that they think has been dumped.

I don't ever get off it long enuff to get it ripped off. Once it's in the garage, they gotta contend with Fido, and Spot!!! That's my girl friend and her sister..LOL

I keep mine in the garage. If I have to go somewhere where I'd need to keep it parked outside overnight, I'll take my pickup.

If I go somewhere, disc lock/fork lock, and the cable lock that keeps my helmet secure also runs through the frame and back wheel.