Dude where's your bike..??

[JustGraham]

https://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj608/grah1234/DSC_07321.jpg


I saw this up london this week and had to take a pic

Remember people to chain your bike through the frame

[TSMW]

True, chains/disklocks are the best way to go.

Interestingly mopeds aren't the most common 'bike' taken though.
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[slyrob]

I have seen a moped brake disc with a disc lock attached abandoned on the floor in a motorcycle parking bay near me
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Can anyone actually get a chain through any part of their bike other than a wheel? Except maybe a bit of swingarm.

If you can, can you ever park your bike in a position where the bit of street furniture you want to lock it to is anywhere near the bit of frame you want to thread the chain through? Guy in photo could have used a longer chain and looped it around the whole footboard/frame I suppose, but I can see why he would have used just the front wheel.

It's all well and good saying you should but there are very few big bikes where you can and even fewer faired bikes where you can and having the perfect parking spot where that accessible bit of frame is adjacent to a bit of secure street furniture must be all but impossible.


The only way I'd get a lock through part of my frame and tothe railings I chain it to would be to use a 3 m long thin cable lock, which would be shit.

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[andyscooter]

scooters alsays seem to have a towing type eye halfway down the one siide

i use this to lock them up with
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[Matt-]

Insurance for rider's in London ( in certain part's ) must be a bomb as it's so high risk
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Upon closer inspection, there are double yellows on the road - the bike was probably nicked by the council .

[Rogerborg]

Yup, that looks like part of the "highway" to me. I'm surprised the survivor isn't dripping with tickets.

More likely though there's now a couple of scrotes looking to blag a front wheel from some genius who's locked up his frame.

It's not the length, it's what you do it with. Noose chains:

https://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p613/wooizm/IMG_1641.jpg
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[Groove]

Surely the ped in the picture would have been better to nick seeing as it isnt actually chained up?

*shrugs*

Thats one less of the poxy things on the road anyway
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Looks like it was a piaggio fly:
https://en.piaggio-club.net/graphics/gallery/full/139_09piaggiofly150.jpg

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[Al]

There must be some people that steal them for financial gain but I think most are stolen by kids/chavs for joyriding.

It is strange how the problem doesn't exist in other countries. I hired a scooter when I was in Thailand and asked the guy at the hire shop if he would lend my a lock to use when I parked it up, he just looked at my in a confused kind of way and said "no it will be fine it has lock on steering".
The problem also doesn't seem to exist in other parts of Europe as you often see scooters parked up outside cafes and shops with the keys in the ignition.
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[.Chris.]

Interesting looking at those theft stats. I wonder if the predominance of scooters is because they can be ridden by any old delinquent, whereas a geared bike actually requires 5 mins of learning and a brain cell or two. It'd also be interesting to know what proportion of bike thefts are ride-away, and what proportion are slung in the back of a van.
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