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daveoner wrote:Disc lock is a good deterrent. A thief wont steal a bike they cant roll. Other good tips are to make it harder for a thief to get your bike started, loosen a spark plug, or set up some kinda ignition cut off. A thief wont steal a bike that they think has mechanical problems.

anything is great for the honest...theif..but lock or not....if they can't can't roll it...they will pull up in a truck...and with two big guys..they will pick it up and throw it in the truck...if they want it that bad...that is the way of the world!

Scorpio Alarm here.

Buy a Suzuki....PEriod

deterent is the best defence realy so any alarm that has flashing light(mines datatag) factory imobiliser(and sticker so everyone knows) and a good quality bike chain to something imovable that way if they move it it sounds drawing attention, wont start without chipped key and cant be moved easily.
my friend just had his bike stolen and that was in pieces in his garage which goes to show that if they realy want it not much can stop some thiefs

Woah no racism intended but definitely expressed. South African white talking about no problems with stealing because only whites have interest in bikes other than lowly (black) delivery men. That is a pure racist statement though not surprising.

If we changed those words from black and white to party and Jew lets see how fast this would be come offensive. Next you are going to tell me Apartheid was not as bad as it sounded.

Back to the point, you ride your bike there is always a risk someone will steal it. The best defense is to put it either not leave it unattended for long, or park it in a spot where its out in the open as others have said.

Disc locks provide no more protection than locking your bars. Most of the problems with disc locks are the owner trying to ride off with one on. IMO the best defense is good insurance and a combination of what was mentioned before.

sapaul wrote: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.

good insurance.

i ride a 250 so not a super-high crime bike. but i lock it to a steel pole in my garage if i will be leaving it for extended periods but generally i just dont park the bike in areas i feel unsafe about leaving it at. so if in doubt i take the cage. also walk my doberman pinscher in the front yard instead of back so if anyone is casing the place they can see that they might look elsewhere for an easier target.

Who would steal this!!! I could go anywhere with this and nobody ever looks my way...[img]

how do you post a pic?

seriously though, you just need to put the url of the image in between the tags. in other words the pic must be hosted on another server somewhere.

i should say welome to the forum as well!

I do suck at the internet 'cause I still don't know what you are talking about! Really though...with all the technology out there, why can't "they" make it simple for "simpletons" like me!!!

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