Scooter Crime vs Bike Crime

[Vincey B]

When I first started riding scooters within 1 year the following had happened:

1) Came out from work one day to find a screwdriver hanging off the side under the seat where someone had had a go but obviously been scared off or given up.

2) Someone put superglue in my chain lock outside my work, I suspect so I would have to leave the scooter there over night and they can come back for it at 3am when no one is around. Luckily a maintenance guy was able to take an angle grinder to it.

3) I left it parked in a quiet residential road for a few hours and when I came back someone had tried to break the steering lock, but ended up with the handle bars pointing one way and the wheel pointing another.

Once I gave up scooters and moved onto motorbikes ive never had anything like this in the year and half since ive had my full licence. I guess its partly because I had a very desirable scooter (Piaggio Typhoon 125 2 stroke) and a very un-desirable bike (ER-5) but do any of the scooter people on here find they are much more likely to have their bikes tampered with than large motorbikes?

Vince

[paulthewitt]

i believe there is a higher rate of crime on smaller cc machines. my kmx125 was stolen from outside a police station .
maybe they realise they may seriously hurt themselves if they jump on a bigger bike (fast bike + small intelligence = lots of pain)

no problems with the sv650. probably cosi put at least one lock on it. if in a city, normally a chain lock and a disc lock go on it.

Paul

[Trixie]

It could be a scooter thing, but I've heard of it happening to bikes too. One of the most 'nickable' bikes is apparently the DT125.

So I'm not sure it's necessarily a scooter thing, although like the DT, they're just more 'nickable', I think. The scummy thieves will possibly view the scooters (and smaller cc bikes) as easier to nick because of their size (small and light).
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[DJ Big D]

I had a Piaggio Typhoon 125 & left it outside my house one night & when i came out the next morning then had tried to get the lock off but failed so instead then slit my seat, what's the point? Hate the thieving little scrotum suckers

[TheDonUK]

[_Will_]

Or, maybe they can imagine the pissed of muscle-bound jean claude van dam style blokie smashing their heads together after trying to steal his '98 R1, more of a threat than a spotty college student
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[Type_Mo]

i left my piggy typhoon out in my driveway one night, hidden behind my sisters car, and i never ever saw it again


People will get kicked off, knifed, shot or whatever it takes to get the bikes. There all after Piaggio NRG's (50/70), Piaggio Typhoon's (50/70/125/172) and gilera runner's (50/70/125/172/180)
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[edd]

Small cc (ie <250cc) bikes are targets for small time criminals (chavs), particularly those that are off road style machines because they can be used as field bikes. Chavs wont nick your big cc sprts machine because they wont know how to ride it. Newer bikes tend to attract big time crooks with specialist tools and vans etc. the best place to be is with a big bike thats worth nowt. The chavs wont bother because its too big for them, the big time specialists wont waste their time.
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