Keeping bike safe parked on road overnight

ros1816 · L Plate Warrior Joined: 10 Oct 2015 Karma :

Im moving to a place soon without a garage I can put my Honda CBF 125 in. Its a 2 years old bike and isnt in perfect condition so shouldnt be at all attractive to professional thieves only casual thieves and joyriders.

Ive got a heavy duty chain and padlock.

I will have to lock bike on pavement only as no front garden or anchor points possible. I will try and lock bike to a lamppost (although this causes an obstruction on the pavement potentially).

Can anyone give me any advice - I understand Im meant to lock the bike frame to the lamppost and not the back wheel to the lamppost.

What else can I do. Ive got a cover so I can keep it out of sight. Ive ordered a disc lock and I could get an alarm kit.

Any ideas?

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Undinist · Nearly there... Joined: 08 Oct 2013 Karma :

If your home overlooks the bike could you put a security camera there? Point it at the bike and make it obvious. Maybe a dummy camera would do the job.
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redeem ouzzer · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Oct 2015 Karma :

It's probably going to get stolen sooner rather than later.

angstman · L Plate Warrior Joined: 07 Oct 2015 Karma :

I'd be more anxious about it getting either knocked over or pushed over. I've had my bike deliberately pushed over twice now. Best advice is to get it off the road and out of sight if at all possible.

pinkyfloyd · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Karma :

My bike stays on the road. Has done for the last 2 years. Never been stolen yet.
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Andy_Pagin · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Karma :

Possible suggestions..
Smartwater it and put a big sticker on the tank.
and/or a bike cover, preferably padlocked into place. Thieves are mainly oppertunists, if they can't see it they're less likely to nick it, plus the cover makes the theft a longer and more involved job, in a public place they're more likely to get caught.
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UrbanRacer · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Karma :

Put a cover over it, something like an Oxford Stormex that fastens underneath and has eyelets in the cover to allow you to pass a chain through it. Make sure you put the chain round something like a lamppost or metal railing.

Not much more you can do i'm afraid.

phatstorage · Trackday Trickster Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Karma :

I park on the road and have datatag, alarm, and HISS, just as the basics, if I can be bothered, abus alarmed disc lock, almax chain, and a cover.

Won't stop some prick bumping it with a car as has been proven in past years.

But like with shit weather, layers are good. The more crap you hang on the bike, the more likely they will walk on to the next.

Edit. As a side note, I don't wash it and try not to cry when it gets scratched by some moron who can't park their bike next to mine.
Keeping it looking a bit shit and verging on a courier bike's form with its top box and muffs makes it less appealing too.

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Smartwater or datatag don't do anything to stop your bike being nicked and they don't do anything to stop the parts being sold on eBay / gumtree / facebook.

What chain and lock have you got?

Are there other bikes parked on the roads in there or have they already been stolen?

jonpod · Derestricted Danger Joined: 26 Jul 2015 Karma :

Same thing in an area of Clapham, South London.

Use a disc lock and cover always, then I have a chain and lock. Try and tie to to a lamp post but very rare I can do so and have it in the bike bay.

Just be ready to pay a lot more on insurance.

Could always get some kind of Tracker if you've got the £.
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Ribenapigeon · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Feb 2012 Karma :

Get an easier to hot wire bike with fuck all security park it up the street a little way as a bait bike. Wire its ignition up to a spark plug in the petrol tank. Twisted Evil

Trackers are cheap £20 plus a sim card for the cheapest. Not only that you can get radio frequency locators for about £50. Also NFC tags your phone can locate £5-£10.

Put little paint marks on the wheel rims that only you would notice. Bike thieves around me have been hiding stolen bikes by parking them on the street under a cover, so make your wheels recognisable.

Smartwater for motorcycles is only £25 a year.

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TheArchitect · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Dec 2013 Karma :

my bikes have always been on the road, never chained to anything as have nothing to chain to.

Nver had any issues until recently where a pikey has taken a liking to my bike.
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