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Posted: 16:18 - 27 Oct 2016 Post subject: Where to buy my security? |
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Hi guys,
Please bear with me here
I was initially going to ask for information about the length/thickness of a chain but I came across this thread which answered a lot of my questions
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=262313
I have a Yamaha YBR 125 (2010) and plan to park it in front of my house on my lawn literally in front of my kitchen window. Fortunately I have a lamp post on the edge of the pavement and my front lawn so I plan to chain my back tyre/frame to the lamppost and I have a cheap alarmed disk lock for the front wheel (I don't know how reliable this disk lock is yet as the previous owner gave it with the bike and it has no brand, can anyone advise if I should buy a new one?)
For this reason, I am deciding to go for a 2m chain with 16mm thickness - but which brand? And where can anyone recommend I get it from so I get a decent price? Budget is open to the cost of £150..
So to simplify,
1 - Do I need a new alarmed disk lock? Any way I can test the effectiveness of my current one? I don't know how a good one is supposed to react
2 - Advice on brand of chain and where to get it from?
3 - I've been advised to get a Datatool Devil 1000 lock for the chain, any good?
Ooo one more thing!
4 - I am due to get a Topbox (possibly 40L), will the chain be good enough and practical enough to carry around in there when I go to the shops etc or will the disk lock suffice? (parking at work isn't a problem)
Thanks a lot guys! And apologies if you've had to discuss this so many times |
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Posted: 18:40 - 27 Oct 2016 Post subject: |
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[quote="vice"]Almax Immobiliser Series III + Squire SS65CS Stronghold Lock for me, knocked off quite a bit on the insurance in the form of a partial refund.
A bit more than your budget, but just call and ask for a discount.
Just make sure you loop it through the frame somewhere and not just the tyre.
oh and I've got some alarmed oxford boss disc lock thing for the front, it's ok, I guess, could be louder.[/quote]
This.
Mine turned up yesterday and it's quality and heavier than I thought |
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vice wrote: | Almax Immobiliser Series III + Squire SS65CS Stronghold Lock for me, knocked off quite a bit on the insurance in the form of a partial refund.
A bit more than your budget, but just call and ask for a discount.
Just make sure you loop it through the frame somewhere and not just the tyre.
oh and I've got some alarmed oxford boss disc lock thing for the front, it's ok, I guess, could be louder. |
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This.
Mine turned up yesterday and it's quality and heavier than I thought |
Leave it at work bays as parked in central London, carry it occasionally, not pleasant, but not unbearable, would definitely be better in a tail bag. It's on the list... after tyres, suspension, mirrors, etc... oh yeah and a second one for home. |
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only125 wrote: | Would a 1.5m chain suffice..? |
If you can always get right next to your friendly lamp-post, just about. Think about it though, it's less than 75cm each way, and that's got to go around the post and through your bike.
2m is the minimum I'd want to use to lock on to anything, or a 1.5m Pragmasis 16mm noose chain. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Posted: 14:27 - 28 Oct 2016 Post subject: re |
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+1 for the almax with squire lock, the anti-pinch pin looks interesting but I wonder if a static item such as this is easier to cut through than a more "fluid" item like a chain, probably both the same though.
at my work-site i have nothing to chain too in westminster so i park in a motorcycle bay with an abus disc lock on the front 11mm one, and a xena disc lock alarm on the back. and park next to a hayabusa |
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Posted: 15:33 - 28 Oct 2016 Post subject: Re: re |
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Chaining motorcycles together would also help.
Not as in closing your chain around the wheel of another bike, of course, but as in looping your security chain through that of another bike. This way scumbags cannot just lift your bike and load it into a van, but at the same time the owner of the other bike can open his chain and leave without you being there. I do wonder, however, how many fellow genius bikers would realise this, and how many would go ballistic thinking: oh no, he has chained me! |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 222 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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