Uk top 10 stolen bikes - Page 2 - SV650.org

29-01-13, 06:45 PM

I can`t understand why there isn`t a trail bike in the list....the little buggers love em for field bikes.

29-01-13, 08:00 PM

Possibly a lack of fields around the crime hot-spots.

30-01-13, 02:01 AM

Only ever had trailies nicked, hense guarding my CCM with my life.

NedSVS · 30-01-13, 02:52 PM

To be stolen a lot involves a combination of several factors; sold a lot, desired a lot and/or easy to steal.

Sid Squid · 30-01-13, 06:40 PM

Thundercat number one stolen bike?

Errrr... What? They were made for a while it's true - but not for ten years now, I don't get it

Sir Trev · 30-01-13, 07:17 PM

Easy locks to pick? Easy to hotwire? Perhaps that's why it's up there. Plus at ten years old they may well be sheds that nobody bothers to add a chain or alarm to making it even easier. Are the parts useful to racers or interchangable with other models??

Still surprised though...

Biker Biggles · 30-01-13, 08:01 PM

72.5% of all statistics are made up.
Including these I suspect.

Nick_69 · 31-01-13, 09:53 AM

Well buying a gixer 600 was a giid thing has put me down one place on the list

mikerj · 31-01-13, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orose

More to the point, why are there no dirt bikes on the list at all?

This, dirty thieving scrotes love to steal dirt bikes far more than sports bikes.

The Thunderpants at number one is just amazing. I can only assume these stats have been skewed in some way as I simply can't believe it's reperesentative of the UK as a whole. Do Swinton actualy cover dirt bikes and modern sports bikes?

ChrisCurvyS · 31-01-13, 01:04 PM

You've got to take these stats with a pinch of salt. MCN had something on ' UK's most crashed bikes' in their Xmas issue using stats provided by Carole Nash. The SV was in the top then for crashes (headed by R1s), while the Thunderace made another random appearance as top of the least crashed list.

I presume they're just crude figures based on the one insurers' record of claims for that make and model, with no adjustment made for the numbers of that make and model in general circulation in the UK.

So if the insurer provides cover for two Thundercats and one is stolen, that shows in their figures as '50% of Thundercats nicked', equally they insure only one Thunderace and it doesn't crash, it gives it a 100% safety record. Or something.

29-01-13, 06:45 PM	#11
unclepoo Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes I can`t understand why there isn`t a trail bike in the list....the little buggers love em for field bikes.

29-01-13, 08:00 PM	#12
sputnik Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes Possibly a lack of fields around the crime hot-spots.

30-01-13, 02:01 AM	#13
rb8989 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes Only ever had trailies nicked, hense guarding my CCM with my life.

30-01-13, 02:52 PM	#14
NedSVS Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 572	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes To be stolen a lot involves a combination of several factors; sold a lot, desired a lot and/or easy to steal.

30-01-13, 06:40 PM	#15
Sid Squid No, I don't lend tools. Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Skunk Works, Nth London Posts: 8,680	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes Thundercat number one stolen bike? Errrr... What? They were made for a while it's true - but not for ten years now, I don't get it __________________ If an SV650 has a flat tyre in the forest and no-one is there to blow it up, how long will it be 'til someone posts that the reg/rec is duff and the world will end unless a CBR unit is fitted? A little bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing. "a deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst"

30-01-13, 07:17 PM	#16
Sir Trev Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: High Wycombe, where the chair factories used to be Posts: 1,479	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes Easy locks to pick? Easy to hotwire? Perhaps that's why it's up there. Plus at ten years old they may well be sheds that nobody bothers to add a chain or alarm to making it even easier. Are the parts useful to racers or interchangable with other models?? Still surprised though... __________________ We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town, BEEP BEEP!

30-01-13, 08:01 PM	#17
Biker Biggles Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Barnet Herts Posts: 5,071	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes 72.5% of all statistics are made up. Including these I suspect. __________________ On a clear day we stand there and look further than the ordinary eye can see.

31-01-13, 09:53 AM	#18
Nick_69 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Guildford, surrey Posts: 785	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes Well buying a gixer 600 was a giid thing has put me down one place on the list __________________ Was SV650S K9 Now GSXR 600 K9

31-01-13, 01:04 PM	#20
ChrisCurvyS Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 562	Re: Uk top 10 stolen bikes You've got to take these stats with a pinch of salt. MCN had something on ' UK's most crashed bikes' in their Xmas issue using stats provided by Carole Nash. The SV was in the top then for crashes (headed by R1s), while the Thunderace made another random appearance as top of the least crashed list. I presume they're just crude figures based on the one insurers' record of claims for that make and model, with no adjustment made for the numbers of that make and model in general circulation in the UK. So if the insurer provides cover for two Thundercats and one is stolen, that shows in their figures as '50% of Thundercats nicked', equally they insure only one Thunderace and it doesn't crash, it gives it a 100% safety record. Or something.

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