Wed, 06 May 1998 10:02:17 +0200 - Message No. 2862
From: Martin Franz

Subject: disc locks...


Hi @ riders,
just one more word about disc locks:
when someone want's to steal your bike, he will lift it up. 
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



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