| Author | Message | ||
     Cocobueller |
What types of Security are you using at home, restaurant or overnight hotel stays? How about helmet or or gear locks? I'm ready to spend a little money as the bike is coming together, but don't want to waste $$$. What works? | ||
| Slaughter |
Hotel - use the free paper you get and bring the bike INTO the room - use the free USA Today to prevent marking the floor. About the only good use for USA Today. LET IT COOL BEFORE BRINGING INTO THE ROOM!!! (DAMHIK). IF I MUST leave it outside, I have a Kryptonite motion-sensing alarm PLUS a cable and lock threaded through the wheels and frames of all the bikes | ||
| Xnoahx |
Only security I used is the fork lock and the helmet lock under the seat. | ||
| Zane_t |
Lock the fork, leave it in gear, kryptonite padlock the front wheel. Anything so the thieves would have to be a couple gorillas to carry the bike away. Take your helmet inside with you. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I use a front rotor lock with the orange coily "hey dummy" cord to the throttle as a reminder. Never had a problem. My S2 has a 120db motion sensor...just because it was fun to mess with people when I still worked at the dealer. They'd throw a leg over it all the time assuming it was a bike there for sale (nevermind the bugs, or the license plate, or the sign I had on the master cylinder "This Buell is privately owned - DO NOT TOUCH"). Fun to watch 'em piss themselves as it started screaming  Even more fun watching them wilt as I walked out with the remote to silence it...and to tell them I had the answer back on their credit app and we could go back in and talk about their deal. heehee. | ||
| Froggy |
Motels are awesome  | ||
| Zacks |
Motels are awesome It's the elevator that's the bitch... | ||
| Froggy |
Thats why you cruise the parking lot before going to book a room, find at least two on the first floor close to a ramp or otherwise easily accessible. Request those rooms, and you are good to go | ||
| Thruster |
For at-home use (in northeast NJ), and also at-work (where the lock and chain can be left there), I got Almax Series III chains and Squire locks, from http://www.almax-security-chains.co.uk/ Series IV is even thicker and heavier, but overkill in my particular situation. I also installed a couple of their Hardie ground anchors at home, one outside to lock the bike while it cools, and one in the garage for the other bike and bicycles. Some bikers travel with their chains, but I've not needed to yet. Prior to my Almax investments, I had gotten a bunch of Kryptonite's best chains, cables, and locks (NY Faghettaboudit), but I upgraded when I learned of their vulnerabilities. I still use the Kryptonite stuff redundantly though, just to cost the would-be perps more time and make it more likely they'll just go elsewhere. If at all possible, it is always best to chain the bike to some permanent structure. That's actually harder to figure than one might think. A mere signpost or tree is not nearly good enough. A favorite mode of theft involves a van backing up to your bike and lifting it in, locks and all, and driving away, all in seconds; then they can take their time with an angle grinder to remove the locks in a safer setting later. Most thefts get chopped up and sold for parts very quickly. I have a LoJack in my 08 Uly, but I think my new big chains are much more useful. Sure they cost way more than my insurance, but I believe they're worth more, it was a one-time expense, and they'll still be good for all my future bikes. Once you get 'em, be sure to use 'em! | ||
| Ccryder |
Park it next to a H-D. Who would ever steal a Buell with a H-D sitting there? If you can't find a H-D, fork lock, disc lock and if you can store it a cable lock around the seat through the back wheel. If you use a disc lock be sure and use some kind of reminder like Krypotonite has a bright orange stretche that goes b/t the lock and your bars. If you forget to remove a disc lock you can cause some pretty serious damage to the bike and you. | ||
| Zacks |
If you forget to remove a disc lock you can cause some pretty serious damage to the bike and you. But then you get to upgrade the disc brakes. And the wrenched knee heals. Only problem is driving the bike back home with a bent rotor hammering the pads back in. You'll need to pump it a couple of times to get it to grab. So I've heard. Not that I would have done something so silly on a Suzuki once... Funny thing. EBC rotors for the pair with pads - shipped - were cheaper than just one stock rotor. | ||
| Slaughter |
Froggy's got it right! I've had bikes screwed with in parking lots. Alarms, locks and cables don't stop vandalism. There are those out there with a hatred of all things moto - add a couple beers in the mix and bikes get tipped over or keyed or seats get knifed. Yeah, I need to overnight in better neighborhoods. |
