Scallywags tried to steal my bike!

[Ripp3rCrust]

This morning I went down onto the drive where my bike is locked up overnight to find it there without its cover. Initially I thought that I had forgot to put it on until I realised some scrote had taken it! Nevertheless I was in a rush so got over it pretty quickly (despite it being an expensive Oxford one) and wheeled the bike onto the road ready for setting off to work.

I noticed a bolt on the floor which looked similar to one off the bike but after a quick once over, I couldn't identify where it came from, if anywhere. It wasn't until I fired the bike up that I realised something was amiss, with it sounding like an apache gunship, some fooker had pinched the header bolts from two of the pipes!

Took a while for me to realise that they were actually trying to steal the bike by removing the downpipes as I thread my Almax III chain through them. They must have been spooked halfway through doing it or got bored. I have managed to use some temporary bolts from the engineers at work to re-attach the headers until I can get hold of the proper ones.

Stool cory bro.

Anyway, how can I protect the bike now they have had a go at it?
Normally there is a car on the driveway blocking most of it, however this has not been there over the last week.
Would putting the chain through the rear wheel as opposed to the downpipes be a good start?

Needless to say I will be stopping in the front room with a machete and crowbar until I get the security situation sorted

Thanks for any suggestions
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[Tungtvann]

Perhaps they were going to steal it and replace it with a better bike.

[Ripp3rCrust]

[swampy]

If they got two header bolts out without snapping them, in the dark and without making a noise.... I'd give them a fucking medal and a job at Kwikfit..
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[Joncrete Cungle]

Keep the bike elsewhere or in the house. Chain bike to something immovable, wheels and header pipes are quite easy to undo / cut. Put a disc lock on front wheel and one on back wheel if possible. Leave bike in gear and with the side stand down (assuming you have a working cut off switch). Get a pragmasis anti pinch pin if you can't get your chain through a substantial part of the bike frame. Or / and secure an additional chain (bit smaller say pragmasis 13mm through the yokes is what I sometimes do) to your main chain to make your bike a bit harder to steal.

Get a cover with front and rear wheel chain holes, put chain through one side and cheap bike lock / D lock through the other side to make the cover a bit more time consuming / noisy to remove. Attach an alarm mine discreetly to your bike with some fishing line, try not to forget to remove the fishing line before you move your bike. Plant some firethorn if you can to make getting to your bike unseen difficult.

[Ripp3rCrust]

[Tungtvann]

Must be really nerve racking knowing that someone has tried to steal your bike. I'd be dreaming about bikes getting nicked and waking up all through the night if it was me!

And as we know with some of the scumbags who steal stuff, it doesn't need to be a high end sports bike for them to have a pop, probably just want to nick it for a laugh then wreck it.

A silly question: if you discreetly put razor blades on the bike in places that someone might touch in an attempt to rob it, and they butchered their hands, would you be held accountable?

[P.addy]

Cheap £1 rape alarms are ideal for covers. Tie it on underneath, when they remove cover this high pitched screeching noise is gonna make them leg it

[Clutchy]

Accidentally leave a ''shotgun permit'' sign right near your bike, should scare them away.
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