How do yo carry your bike security chain?
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Im interested in how you carry your chain around on your bike?
I have a 1.5m Pragmasis 19mm chain which I use at home, but weighing in at 10kgs I don't want to carry it in my top box so was thinking of strapping a rucksack to the pillion seat for when I need to take my chain with me. Obviously it needs to be securely held in place.
Other than looping it around my neck!!!, are there any particular rucksacks/bags/methods folk use?
I have a 1.5m Pragmasis 19mm chain which I use at home, but weighing in at 10kgs I don't want to carry it in my top box so was thinking of strapping a rucksack to the pillion seat for when I need to take my chain with me. Obviously it needs to be securely held in place.
Other than looping it around my neck!!!, are there any particular rucksacks/bags/methods folk use?
You can get specific tail packs for a lot of locks..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bike-It-Mammoth-security...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bike-It-Mammoth-security...
I don't see the problem with a heavy chain. A heavy chain only weighs about 1/8 a single person or less and your bike is designed to carry two people.
I can show you plenty of photos from Vietnam where people are carrying a refrigerator or several CRT TVs or sofas on a little 125cc bike. First Worlders worrying about carrying a 16mm chain is really worrying about nothing.
I would not put it in a rucksack however. Too hard to tie securely to the bike. You don't want a chain falling half off at speed.
I can show you plenty of photos from Vietnam where people are carrying a refrigerator or several CRT TVs or sofas on a little 125cc bike. First Worlders worrying about carrying a 16mm chain is really worrying about nothing.
I would not put it in a rucksack however. Too hard to tie securely to the bike. You don't want a chain falling half off at speed.
At home my bike is secured with 2m 16mm and a 1m 19mm Pragmasis chains. I made it very clear to the insurance that these were going to be used at home only (although I did stay away last Saturday, and since the OH was meeting me there she took the 19mm for me in the car).
I don't think it's realistic to carry around the monster chains - they're simply too heavy and on a sports bike it's simply not going to happen. I'm off to France soon and will be sharing a lighter chain with my mate plus disclock + alarm + using secure hotel parking.
I don't think it's realistic to carry around the monster chains - they're simply too heavy and on a sports bike it's simply not going to happen. I'm off to France soon and will be sharing a lighter chain with my mate plus disclock + alarm + using secure hotel parking.
Look at it this way, any chain is better than no chain. If you have an unbreakable chain, and they choose to smash your head in, instead of wasting time trying to cut the chain then you have gained nothing. Anything over 9mm stops the casual thief. Falling on a big chain could kill you anyway, so disk lock, and a light chain should be ok for most times unless visiting the big stty.
Unless you are going to physically lock the bike to some big imovable object, just have a lighter chain that deters the theives who like to try and push bikes away.
And if you dont lock the bike to something, be clever in how you chain the bike - it's no good just putting the chain through the wheel and leaving most of it trailing on the ground. Up and over the seat unit is better, for example.
If I need to take a chain, I like to carry it in a kreiga pouch thing that straps onto my pillion seat.
And if you dont lock the bike to something, be clever in how you chain the bike - it's no good just putting the chain through the wheel and leaving most of it trailing on the ground. Up and over the seat unit is better, for example.
If I need to take a chain, I like to carry it in a kreiga pouch thing that straps onto my pillion seat.
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