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sgtcalle
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PostPosted: 17:55 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: For anyone travelling to the tt via liverpool... Reply with quote
...for Christ's sake, lock up your bikes if you leave them. Just seen the 4th post today about a bike being stolen whilst someone waits for their ferry. The local pikeys are clearly having a field day. Just a psa seen as I had 3 stolen from Liverpool in the last 7 years.
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PostPosted: 18:27 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
If only the coppers who are checking that everyone is tax'd, MOT'd and insured actually decided to to something useful like preventing crime.
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lol had dibble stop me for that one on the strand last year... yes hofficer, no hofficer, three bags full hofficer...
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PostPosted: 20:26 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sailing from there on monday, i assume its people that have wandered away for a coffee for an hour that had their bikes nicked?
Also whats the island like for this kind of stuff? im likely only going to take a disc lock with me.

Fuckit might just take the chain too anyway, that'll take them what, an extra 2 minutes to cut through Sad
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PostPosted: 21:34 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've read of some reports of bike thefts from the Isle this year.
You'd have to be really unlucky to get your bike nicked there as it's crammed full of very tasty machines.
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sgtcalle
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've seen a couple stolen overnight from travelodges etc, assuming people have come the night before for ferries in the morning. And a couple that were just parked up in the city near the ferry port. A really nice s1000rr and s1000r.

Bring a chain for Christ's sake. You just have to make it harder to steal than the next poor chumps.
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PostPosted: 21:55 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Howling Terror wrote:

You'd have to be really unlucky to get your bike nicked there as it's crammed full of very tasty machines.

That's my thinking, my bikes 11 years old, wont catch as many eyes hopefully.
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
kerr wrote:
Howling Terror wrote:

You'd have to be really unlucky to get your bike nicked there as it's crammed full of very tasty machines.

That's my thinking, my bikes 11 years old, wont catch as many eyes hopefully.


11 years old? Modern that is, mine was made last century!
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PostPosted: 23:30 - 01 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
kerr wrote:
Also whats the island like for this kind of stuff? im likely only going to take a disc lock with me.


You'll be fine on the IoM.

When I lived there, I left my bike parked on the street overnight with the keys in the ignition by accident far too many times. Never bothered using any security at all either. The bike never got touched (except when some bint accidentally reversed into it.) Evil or Very Mad

As for Liverpool. The local scum will be like lions waiting for the herds of Wildebeest to pass through. Do not take your eyes off your bike for a minute, seriously.
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sgtcalle
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PostPosted: 07:54 - 02 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good analogy.

If you don't want to carry a heavy chain with you on the island, leave it locked to a railing somewhere inconspicuous in Liverpool when you leave the city and retrieve it on the way back through on your way home.
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PostPosted: 08:34 - 02 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
But I can just see that if you did that, someone would cut the chain so they could steal the railing for scrap.
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PostPosted: 11:10 - 05 Jun 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
'Crime rates half that of the best county on the mainland' according to the Manx Police....
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