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LordShaftesbu...
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PostPosted: 19:26 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Thieving bastard scum Reply with quote
Came home last Friday and noticed our security light had been moved. Thought it was a bit odd but assumed it was a neighbour who was annoyed at it shining in through their windows or something.

Came home from work tonight and the gf hands me a yellow card with "Police Message" at the top. Apparently our next door neighbour had his shed broken into that night and one of his bikes nicked. As my light shines into his garden no doubt it was the thieves who interfered with my light.

Now it's not my bike that's been stolen but having had one nicked before I can feel his pain. Not to mention that I am now back to being paranoid since both my bikes are parked in the street, right next to the entrance to his drive.

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PostPosted: 19:32 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Was his bike particularly valuable? Are yours?
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pepperami
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
More chains and another alarm!
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dig a pit in front of your shed and fill it with sharpened posts. Turn your security light off. Stock up on salt and vinegar Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
J4mes wrote:
Dig a pit in front of your shed and fill it with sharpened posts coated in excrement . Turn your security light off. Stock up on salt and vinegar Thumbs Up


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LordShaftesbu...
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PostPosted: 20:52 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tungtvann wrote:
Was his bike particularly valuable? Are yours?

Apparently his was a classic and the police think the thieves thought it might be valuable.

They couldn't get it started so pushed it away, luckily they gave up and abandoned it in a ditch, so at least he got it back. Don't know with what damage though, must be sickening if you have a nice shiny classic you've slaved over.

Mine aren't mega valuable but one's only 4 years old and the other's only two. Currently they're chained together with an Almax IV and they both have disc locks. The old one is Datatagged and has no battery, the new one has an alarm and immobiliser. Not sure what else I can do.
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LordShaftesbu...
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PostPosted: 20:55 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
J4mes wrote:
Dig a pit in front of your shed and fill it with sharpened posts:

I wish I had a shed, my bikes are parked in the street.
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PostPosted: 01:19 - 17 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's apparently someone around this area in a transit looking for bikes. Doesn't sound like them as the bike would be gone, but keep an eye out.

There was a zzr1100 nearly nicked last week, and we caught someone at a mate's CBR600 tonight around the corner from my house...

Cheers,

Dunc
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PostPosted: 08:25 - 17 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
More chains, make it so they either have to go through every defense you have, or they will need to try and magically lift two bikes chained together and get them into a van.

Telling you to like stay up and wait with a crowbar near by won't do you any good as they may not come back for a while so heat dies down, or they may not come back at all.

Get some disc lock alarms if your disc locks aren't alarmed, the more noise that goes off when someone tries fucking with your bikes, the better.
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LordShaftesbu...
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PostPosted: 10:12 - 17 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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More chains, make it so they either have to go through every defense you have, or they will need to try and magically lift two bikes chained together and get them into a van.

Get some disc lock alarms if your disc locks aren't alarmed, the more noise that goes off when someone tries fucking with your bikes, the better.

My bikes are chained together with an Almax IV and they both have disclocks, alarms, immobilisers and are Datatagged. I wish there was more I could do.
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Tungtvann
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PostPosted: 10:18 - 17 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
LordShaftesbury wrote:

My bikes are chained together with an Almax IV and they both have disclocks, alarms, immobilisers and are Datatagged. I wish there was more I could do.

Sit in the bushes on overwatch with a baseball bat?
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PostPosted: 16:01 - 17 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
LordShaftesbury wrote:
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More chains, make it so they either have to go through every defense you have, or they will need to try and magically lift two bikes chained together and get them into a van.

Get some disc lock alarms if your disc locks aren't alarmed, the more noise that goes off when someone tries fucking with your bikes, the better.

My bikes are chained together with an Almax IV and they both have disclocks, alarms, immobilisers and are Datatagged. I wish there was more I could do.


I dunno then mate, maybe look into a tracking unit which uses more than just GPS because GPS can be jammed.

If you can't store your bikes in a bricked garage or your house, leaving them out in the open is just one of those things you're going to have to deal with unfortunately :/

I have a HD webcam looking out my window at my entire back garden which records to my computer, and i have cctv on the front and rear of my house which is set to record when the motion detector goes off, i'm too cheap to get one of those Infrared CCTV systems, but even then i still worry when i'm not there and my bike is.

I just read this in the "What did you get form aldi" thread,
thx1138 wrote:

Chain and lock - it's a bit meh. But, it's for locking the ladders and bicycle together in the shed.


So, take a massive ladder out there and lock your bikes to that, that way they sure as shit won't be able to just push your bikes into a van after cutting disc locks and chains which secure the wheels.
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 22 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Dunkable wrote:
and we caught someone at a mate's CBR600 tonight around the corner from my house...




Did you actually get him??
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 22 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Dunkable wrote:
There's apparently someone around this area in a transit looking for bikes. Doesn't sound like them as the bike would be gone, but keep an eye out.

There was a zzr1100 nearly nicked last week, and we caught someone at a mate's CBR600 tonight around the corner from my house...

Cheers,

Dunc


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