Wed, 6 May 1998 12:32:16 +0100
- Message No. 2867
From: gmitropoulos@pnc.co.uk
Subject: Re: 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