locks and security was re yamaha locks this is maybe not a pet peeve but definitely a playmate peeve in article c uxrp f news cis umn edu wfk lynx spa umn edu bill ketzeback writes any lock including the kyptonite utypes are easy to break into if the person has the proper supplies and or motivation minutes and your bike is gone i would be glad to explain but i dont want to contribute to any unlawful activities does this make anyone s skeptic alarm tm go off no offense bill i don t mean to say that you re not being straight but i wonder how you know about this have you actually every used your secret method to break all the different kinds of bike locks or are you taking someone s word for it the fact is it is unlikely that someone reading anything here is going to go into a successful bike stealing business because they read anything in rec motorcycles so please tell us what you are talking about we can t even protect against an assault or discuss methods if you don t come out with it see i have heard the ones about the pipes and the liquid nitrogen and the cordless dremel tools and a bunch of other ones the most plausable method i am not a bike thief so i really don t know for certain is just to put a rod through each wheel and use four guys to just lift the bike into a truck this works because most people don t lock their bikes to anything since that method is so childishly easy i figure a nice visible chain or cable locking the bike to something is likely to make a lazy thief go on to the next bike hey finally an advantage to the weight and high cg of the concours especially since i have a bike that i would hate to see ripped off by such a trival tactic warning no lock alone is a safe deterent against theft the thief doesnt need to be a locksmith or a lock picker to walk away with your property i personally think motion alarms in combination to a lock of this type is the way to go if in fact you are that concerned what tactic are you referring to if we don t know what you are talking about we can t very well guard against it can we for my money literally i rely on a combination of a motion detector alarm with pager when i m out of earshot of the bike in a questionable area c c insurance and i try to park in obvious visible areas with lots of people about see if someone just plays with the bike without intention of stealing it at least some eyes are on it and if they get too rambunctious they ll set off the alarm that s for a nice bike for a ratbike the trick is to always keep its actual value well below blue book so that it looks so crappy nobody would want to steal it and even if they were stupid enough to you would make a profit on the deal seriously if i for instance need to go on a business trip for a week and sadly have to leave the bikes sitting they both get a shitty looking but useable cover locked on and both bikes locked to each other and a curb bumper in the parking lot under the light i usually rig the cable locks i use aircraft cable so that if anyone pulls on either bike or the cable joining them the concours alarm goes off and i have a friend come buy every day to have a look and make sure they re still there the only thing i have ever had stolen was a cover and that was over winter storage with the battery out of the bike and thus no alarm oh put your own eyelets into the cover for the locks to pass through and place them so that they have to absolutely destroy the cover to get it off that s the best that i can think of most of the locks i see people put on bikes look well not too mechanically sound i like abus since i have personally removed master locks from lockers with my boot dave svoboda svoboda void rtsg mot com i m getting tired of concours mmmmmmmmmm beating you up dave rz ring ding woops you never learn ama dod cog chicago beth bruiser dixon
