Wed, 6 May 1998 14:33:49 +0100
- Message No. 2877
From: "Seaton, Andy"
Subject: RE: disc locks...
I couldn't agree more.
If I was a house burglar and saw two houses, one with the windows
locked, one with a window open, I know which one I would burgle...
Regards...
Andy Seaton. X5287.
Systems Support Manager,
E-Mail: Andy.Seaton@gs.com
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other
people"
-----Original Message-----
From: gmitropoulos@pnc.co.uk [SMTP:gmitropoulos@pnc.co.uk]
Sent: 06 May 1998 12:32
To: XRV-List
Subject: Re: (XRV) disc locks...
>
>Two "nice" stories: son of my collegua had xrv750 with disc
lock in
>front wheel, abus lock rear wheel. In the morning he had no
xrv750, no
>disk lock and no abus...
>My friend with cbr900 equiped with high price alarm system
wondered in
>the morning, why his
>direction light was opened. He kicked the bike to check, if the
alarm is
>active: no sound !!!??!!! The guys deactiveted the alarm
system with
>"glue foam" (first the tried to shortcut the system by a
"bridge" in the
>direction light...)...fortuntaly, they probably got disturbed
and so the
>bike was not
>stolen.
>As we say here: most of those locks/alarm systems are just for
the
>fishes... :-(
>regards, martin
There is a story going around in Greece, I am sure the other
greek listers are aware of it. A guy used to leave a ZZR1100 in
his
balkony, first floor of a 2 floor building
(4 meters higher than the road level). Every night he used to
lift the Kawa
with a purpose-built lift, able to operate only
from his room. Lift on the first floor during the night, and the
only way
to get it down to groun level was to use the controls from the
guy's room.
Bike alarmed and locked on the balcony bars. Bike got nicked.
I am sure we all know the bike can be nicked if targeted, no
matter what
you use
to protect it. The idea though is to show that you have so many
security
measures
on the bike that the potential thief won't bother and go and
nick somebody
else's
bike which will be less protected and therefore easier and
cleaner job. Now
if it's
a bet (like the above case apparently) or the bike is unique and
the thief
has an
order for the specific one, then no matter what...
Having said that, apparently 60% of all the bikes nicked in UK
last year
were not secured or locked at the time
that got nicked ! ("I will be back out of the house again in
10', I 'll use
just the steering lock" syndrome!)

dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de