Alarm it and Lock it!

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.

[TSM]

the new type hondas with HISS as far as i am aware are near impossable to ride away on because HISS is realy good and the bike wont start and it is built into the ECU. It was more like they preped the bike so they could push it somewhere into a van, unless it was an old style VFR without HISS.

Even my brothers 2000 VFR has HISS.

Anything that makes the theiving scum move on to a more vulnerable bike.......

Yeah, I know it sounds like "I'm alright, Jack", but you know what I mean. Most bikes are nicked from their owners homes.

Originally Posted by TSM

the new type hondas with HISS as far as i am aware are near impossable to ride away on because HISS is realy good and the bike wont start and it is built into the ECU.

My Hornet has HISS. It does provide some reassurance but I don't rely on it.

Have a look on EBAY

I hate thieving scum

Must be the season for it.

The thieving feckers are out in force by the look sof it!

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yep the only thing you can rely HISS to do properly is stop them starting & riding away on it. Other than that, its not even an alarm.

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FFS thats disgusting.. I guess its the season for it

The alarm on my bike is a total pain the bum.. but I'm glad I have it

I'm always checking up on my bike, i got it chained up, disc locked and datatool and i still know that if they really want it they'll find a way of taking it. At least i know that they might take a little whilelonger trying to get at it than if a had nothing.

my mates boss had an 05 R1 nicked from Whitehall a couple of weeks ago, a passerby intervened and got a slap from the thieves, in the rush they ended up just chucking the bike into the back of the van, with the alarm going.

This wouldn’t be as big a problem as it is, if all the councils fitted secure parking. ie. a big railing the length of the bike bay. Tossers.

where did this happen, camden westminster?

Originally Posted by Jabba-the-Hutt

Anything that makes the theiving scum move on to a more vulnerable bike.......

Yeah, I know it sounds like "I'm alright, Jack", but you know what I mean. Most bikes are nicked from their owners homes.

My Hornet has HISS. It does provide some reassurance but I don't rely on it.

i wouldnt rely on the HISS too much,

you can upgrade your existing HISS to provide an alarm (i think they wire in the meta system) which is what i have, to give an alarm - immobiliser combo and its supposedly the muts nuts,

a guy on the CBR forum saw his bike being nicked on the CCTV in under 30 seconds, the guy bypassed the HISS 2 with a screw driver.