How To Steal a Motorcycle - All Too Easy!
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How To Steal a Motorcycle - All Too Easy!
I'm sure the video was sped up a little bit but it's still pretty wild to watch. Really makes me want to get some sort of anti-theft thing.
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-steal-motorcycle
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-steal-motorcycle
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Re: How To Steal a Motorcycle - All Too Easy!
They did that so quick an anti theft device wouldn't have worked. They were so brazen.Brackstone wrote:I'm sure the video was sped up a little bit but it's still pretty wild to watch. Really makes me want to get some sort of anti-theft thing.
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-steal-motorcycle
In this case, the police may have been able to track down the van by zooming in on the security tape.
I guess we all better start hauling around a big piece of chain....
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I used to carry a Kryptonite chain with that New York lock or something like that. I just stopped using it because my bike looks so poor that no one will steal it. Besides the insurance money is worth more than the bike anyway.
If you use those thick chains always wrap it around the frame of the bike not the wheels same goes for using the lock. Plus a motorcycle cover would hide the bike pretty well.

If you use those thick chains always wrap it around the frame of the bike not the wheels same goes for using the lock. Plus a motorcycle cover would hide the bike pretty well.
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Have we ever seen a picture of your bike?JC Viper wrote:I used to carry a Kryptonite chain with that New York lock or something like that. I just stopped using it because my bike looks so poor that no one will steal it. Besides the insurance money is worth more than the bike anyway.![]()
If you use those thick chains always wrap it around the frame of the bike not the wheels same goes for using the lock. Plus a motorcycle cover would hide the bike pretty well.
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Not recently, and for good reason too.blues2cruise wrote:Have we ever seen a picture of your bike?JC Viper wrote:I used to carry a Kryptonite chain with that New York lock or something like that. I just stopped using it because my bike looks so poor that no one will steal it. Besides the insurance money is worth more than the bike anyway.![]()
If you use those thick chains always wrap it around the frame of the bike not the wheels same goes for using the lock. Plus a motorcycle cover would hide the bike pretty well.

One thing you can count on: You push a man too far, and sooner or later he'll start pushing back.


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Blues is right. I can't think of a device that would have prevented this kind of theft. I remember reading a Bicycling mag a couple years ago that rated the NY lock as the only unbeatable chain/lock combo. They were able to defeat that lock eventually but they had to resort to some tools that most theives don't carry with them. I still say the best antitheft device for bikes is insurance.
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I agree with Blues and you as well Guns. I'm just saying if you noticed they also waited until NOBODY was on the street. People were walking up and down but they waited until nobody was looking, I think a siren might've spooked them at least a bit.Gunslinger wrote:Blues is right. I can't think of a device that would have prevented this kind of theft. I remember reading a Bicycling mag a couple years ago that rated the NY lock as the only unbeatable chain/lock combo. They were able to defeat that lock eventually but they had to resort to some tools that most theives don't carry with them. I still say the best antitheft device for bikes is insurance.
Plus if your Motorcycle has like a 90+db alarm I'd love to see them try and drive around with that in the minivan going off the whole time.
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