Bike thief defeated but bike stuck...

[gorillaonabik...]

I came out this morning to discover someone had tried to nick my pride and joy. My bike is protected by a clamp called a 'gorilla lock' which is cemented into my driveway and withstood the attack.

I'm happy about this because I've had a couple of bikes nicked. One of them was chained to a lamp post, alarmed, immobilised, disc locked, HISSed etc... and I was 10m away at the time. The other one was in my driveway and tea leaves had to move my car to get at it.

This time around, this exceptionally tough lock seemed to do the trick.

However, the clamp is now jammed and I can't get the bike out! Sure, I have contacted the gorilla lock people and will see if they can do something but does anyone else have any experience of unjamming a gorilla lock?

[pepperami]

Sad to say , it seems like it might be time for the angle-grinder
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[Rogerborg]

Sorry, can't help, but you may want to suggest to them that a happy ending is all that's needed to make for a great testimonial.

If the last thing that we read here is that you have to grind through it and leave yourself with a £300 pile of useless scrap metal permanently cemented into your drive then it's not going to be a purely ringing endorsement for them.
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[totalllama82]

[gorillaonabik...]

[FerretFing]

Quality outcome......nice one

[0ddball]

So what position in the company do you hold?
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[gorillaonabik...]

[0ddball]

Your username is gorilla on a bike, you are singing the praises of the gorilla lock. Just to make it look convincing you throw in a negative but praise allah, one phonecall and the good guys at gorilla lock are personally calling round to fix it f.o.c.

If you can't see that looks suspicious you need to read it again.
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[Berk]

And everyone knows that the best spammers wait 5 months after signing up before they strike.

[duhawkz]

looks quite interesting but, it looks a little flimsy and they want and extra 25 quid for a couple of extra plates to stop somebody whipping out the spindle and lifting the bike free

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/276635/images/self-locking-ground-lock.bmp

I think for £299 i want to see some independant videos of one really been give some proper hammer before i left my bike locked up in one

glad your bike didnt get nicked though
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[JoeDougieDoug...]

Although its a 'coinsidence' that the guys name is gorillaonabike, I think hes legit.

Glad the lock worked out and your bike wasn't nicked!
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[DrDonnyBrago]

[gorillaonabik...]

[stonesie]

[gorillaonabik...]

[DrDonnyBrago]

Gorillaonabike, is there something to stop them unbolting the front wheel and leaving it behind whilst they leg it with the rest of it?

[Skudd]

[Irn-Bru]

[duhawkz]

[stinkwheel]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[gorillaonabik...]

[/quote]

Interesting.


Must admit I had the same thoughts about the security. I would love to give attacking one a go, bet I could get into it fairly swiftly and fairly quietly with minimal tools.[/quote]

I had a go with a jemmy (because my bike is now stuck in it) and couldn't do it. I'm sure that it suffers from the same issue as a lock and chain in that the front wheel could be undone. The spindle protector will slow the thief down a little. It just makes it more of a pain in the butt to attack rather than just a straight chain and padlock.

Personally, I see it as a slightly better armoured chain and padlock with a little less hassle in terms of parking because when I arrive it clamps on 'automatically.' I always hated fiddling with a lock and chain in the rain. I can also get my pride and joy closer to my house in my driveway rather than in the street. If I can park my car in my driveway hassle free, why not my bike?!

As for holding it upright - yes, it holds a 260kg bike upright but I put the sidestand out just in case.

I bought it from 1stline Motorcycles because it gave me more trust than buying it directly. I have to confess I didn't initially trust the Eastern European dudes and because I was virtually the first guy in the country to buy one, they had to iron out a few issues. Now, I'm generally happy with it... unless of course, Ride breaks it apart in ten seconds...

[WannaBeDude]

Don't believe for a minute your legit.

Your name, thread name / google search, you speak of poor padlocks yet what did you use ... your angle is good chain, they take the lock out, use gorilla.

Stealth spam.

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[WannaBeDude]

Your words ...

I bought a gorilla lock. It's a wheel clamp cemented into my drive with a spindle to stop the tea leaving b@stards removing the front wheel.

It has worked so far and I'd say it is more effective than a chain / lampost combo. From experience, my opinion is I'd already have had it stolen if it had been chained to a lamp post.

SPAMMER !