Valman
15-05-05, 11:03 PM
After last week's unfortunate events I thought it would be best to keep a close eye on my bike this weekend while it was parked up. Today I found out why it's essential to have an alarm and a good lock.
At approximately 6:30 pm I got out of work and I walked down the road to my bike, only to find a very suspicious looking bloke sitting on a Kwak at the start of the bay. He was messing around with it and he had three helmets in a bag hanging of his shoulder and one on his head so it just didn’t look right. As soon as he saw me he got off and walked away to a phone booth. Now I thought what the f!$% is going on here, but what happened next just shocked me. The guy comes back, sits on the bike, looks round as if he’s waiting for someone, pulls out a screwdriver, sticks it in the ignition, gets the thing started and then rides off as quickly as was possible all within a minute.
Now a minute later another guy comes up to a VFR that was parked next to the Kwak, pulls out his key, goes to put it into his ignition but stops and looks up at me and says, “What the f!”£ happened here?” I go over to have a look and find his ignition has been broken off completely and is missing, so it was probably prepped up ready to be ridden away, but I probably scared them off.
What worries me is that the guy had three other helmets with him, so it looks like they’re probably doing this to a lot of bikes that don’t have alarms or locks on them, but at least mine was still there.
Anyway, this just shows that if you bother using locks and alarms then there’s a very good chance they’ll go for something that doesn’t have either on it. There was a few SVs parked up round the area as well, a blue K2 with a topbox that was a little further down the road and a blue K3 that was right next to mine but they were still there when I left.
At approximately 6:30 pm I got out of work and I walked down the road to my bike, only to find a very suspicious looking bloke sitting on a Kwak at the start of the bay. He was messing around with it and he had three helmets in a bag hanging of his shoulder and one on his head so it just didn’t look right. As soon as he saw me he got off and walked away to a phone booth. Now I thought what the f!$% is going on here, but what happened next just shocked me. The guy comes back, sits on the bike, looks round as if he’s waiting for someone, pulls out a screwdriver, sticks it in the ignition, gets the thing started and then rides off as quickly as was possible all within a minute.
Now a minute later another guy comes up to a VFR that was parked next to the Kwak, pulls out his key, goes to put it into his ignition but stops and looks up at me and says, “What the f!”£ happened here?” I go over to have a look and find his ignition has been broken off completely and is missing, so it was probably prepped up ready to be ridden away, but I probably scared them off.
What worries me is that the guy had three other helmets with him, so it looks like they’re probably doing this to a lot of bikes that don’t have alarms or locks on them, but at least mine was still there.
Anyway, this just shows that if you bother using locks and alarms then there’s a very good chance they’ll go for something that doesn’t have either on it. There was a few SVs parked up round the area as well, a blue K2 with a topbox that was a little further down the road and a blue K3 that was right next to mine but they were still there when I left.