Do I use a disc lock in this instance?

Made me laugh though Northwind! I've heard of that one before. But where do I get one and how do I move it?! Think I'll do the bucket thing but maybe with something bigger. Two 25kg bakgs of cement will do. That way, when I leave the garage I can shift the concrete next to the stripped out car filled with tyres and not have to worry about it! He he he.

Do you have a 675 now? I think you mentioned that on my stolen bike thread!

I would be wary about doing the concrete block thing - that's what I did and they just took that too. It's got to be truly immovable or they will come along with enough people to actually take everything it's chained to! I would seriously just install a ground anchor in the floor, no-one will care, or if they do you can concrete it over when you leave.

Someone also mentioned something about the steering lock meaning they couldn't remove it from the garage? Mine wasn't in a garage, but in terms of moving it, they had to lift the front wheel, the rear wheel, and the concrete block - front wheel had steering lock/disc lock, rear wheel had almax chain to concrete block. So again not going to be an issue I suspect.

Given you've got a ss600 I'd 100% definitely get it bolted to the floor. And if possible some way of monitoring the sounds in your garage - I know baby monitors are usually suggested but not sure they work over that long distance.

I thought I had mine covered enough - there was the security as above, plus alarm, plus tracker, plus always covered when parked at home, and it was behind my car - not the easiest to get out. I was wrong though, I don't want anyone else to have to find that out the hard way

p.s. I'm not sure how much 2 x 25kg bags of cement makes, it would be quite a lot - like 400kg? Assuming you really meant 2 25kg bags of cement, and you weren't referring to that as the final weight, you might be OK - I don't think anyone could move 400kg in one block into a van. But my block weighed 50kg and they just picked it up and off they went!

So muffles was your bike parked in the street?

Personally i would never park a new sports bike in the street and when i say that i mean around here, where there is no through traffic and its quite isolated/rural.

Well thats actually a lie ,i parked it in the street once and was paranoid throughout the night....constantly looking out the window. Never again

Nope, it was parked off road - a private car park for the estate I live in. Basically this is where my car is http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1 - in fact, that's my old car

The bike was parked behind that, covered up and out of view as much as it could be. Only people who live in the estate would need to go in or near that car park...so someone must have at some point seen me go into the estate (I always checked people didn't follow me but they must have just realised - or perhaps they were on foot, or something). So if I had a garage, I think they would have just come and bent the door up, and did exactly what they did last Wednesday

Originally Posted by muffles

I thought I had mine covered enough - there was the security as above, plus alarm, plus tracker, plus always covered when parked at home, and it was behind my car - not the easiest to get out. I was wrong though, I don't want anyone else to have to find that out the hard way

Parking bikes behind car/vans can actually end up causing more agro, I know someone who had the whole side cut of thier van because they had parked it infront of a garage that had been broken into before, they broke in via the back doors and took an angle grinder to the side, I would have though it was easier to move the van but hey.

Also have seen more than one case in the press where they have dragged bikes across the top of cars to get them out of a garage. I suppose it depends on how much you car is worth whether you want to use it to add to your security

Car wasn't worth much, but they didn't damage it! In any case, it won't come to that again, I hope - using a bike safe inside a garage should mean that even if they get in, they can't get to the bike without some serious equipment.

I only use my security, stuff chain, disc lock, u lock etc in my garage. I know a pro will dispose of them easily but I hope they just make enough noise removing them to get my dog barking. Take my chain if going into town to fix it to something. Yes I have forgot disc lock once at devils bridge on my old zxr750! Big bang and judder but managed to stay upright and tried to act cool about it Disc was wrecked!

I reckon 2X25kg bags of cement might make between 75 and 100kg of concrete. I'll ask a builder mate. If I got the shape right I could make it very hard to move. But then I'd have to get an almax chain and figure out how to fix it round my bike! Can't really afford the chain though.

Yeah I think I'll do that. Don't think any amount of noise would stop people where my garage is though as it could be anyone working in any one of loads of gardens or garages. Please do not see attached google map! He he. So the only thing to do would make it very very hard for them to nick at all. I've actually got a ground anchor that I bought years ago but never used. If I done the concrete thing I'd do it so it's harder for them to get the bike than if I used the ground anchor but at least I could shift it easier when I'm done with the garage if you know what I mean.