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I have a Street Triple, owned since new in 2009 yet I have lost count of the amount of times people have attempted to nick it.
The last attempt was after only one week in the car park of my new flat so it currently sits sans ignition barrel back in the front garden of the family home, which means I don't use it often as it's a fag to go and get it. Plus Triumph want £250 to fit a new one and I refuse to be ripped off, especially as their locks are obviously pants. I can now start it with a lolly stick.
Also I have to think about where it will be left outside wherever I happen to be working, thus again I don't use it so much.
Now I have just spent the weekend working with a mate who has a BMW K1300R. He's had it the same length of time that I have had the Triumph and he also leaves it on the street in London as well as taking it wherever he works. He claims that no one has ever attempted to steal it as the bike's demographic rider is a 40+ year old man not some young hotshot that would like a Street Triple.
Anyone agree with this thought? I must admit that it was behind my thinking about getting the new water-cooled R1200GS but I do like the racier look of the K.
Oh! and another mate had his whole instrument panel taken from his W/C R1200GS in broad daylight in Mayfair London. It's just unplug and take and it cost about £800 to replace.
The last attempt was after only one week in the car park of my new flat so it currently sits sans ignition barrel back in the front garden of the family home, which means I don't use it often as it's a fag to go and get it. Plus Triumph want £250 to fit a new one and I refuse to be ripped off, especially as their locks are obviously pants. I can now start it with a lolly stick.
Also I have to think about where it will be left outside wherever I happen to be working, thus again I don't use it so much.
Now I have just spent the weekend working with a mate who has a BMW K1300R. He's had it the same length of time that I have had the Triumph and he also leaves it on the street in London as well as taking it wherever he works. He claims that no one has ever attempted to steal it as the bike's demographic rider is a 40+ year old man not some young hotshot that would like a Street Triple.
Anyone agree with this thought? I must admit that it was behind my thinking about getting the new water-cooled R1200GS but I do like the racier look of the K.
Oh! and another mate had his whole instrument panel taken from his W/C R1200GS in broad daylight in Mayfair London. It's just unplug and take and it cost about £800 to replace.
you have the most desirable naked for decades, its won more what bike threads than I care to mention on here.
Triumph parts are ludicrously priced.
A lot of middle aged men keep binning them as its there first bike bike.
YOU LIVE IN LONDON
Yet you wonder whey people keep trying to steal it!?
fk id steal my Dads had I
A) not been brought up never to steal
B) never shared a garage with him leaving no place to put it other than back there
C) would get found out quickly posting pictures on here
Triumph parts are ludicrously priced.
A lot of middle aged men keep binning them as its there first bike bike.
YOU LIVE IN LONDON
Yet you wonder whey people keep trying to steal it!?
fk id steal my Dads had I
A) not been brought up never to steal
B) never shared a garage with him leaving no place to put it other than back there
C) would get found out quickly posting pictures on here
I found this;
http://www.carolenash.com/pdf/theftsurvey/theftsur...
From 2008 and just one company, but shows they're occasionally letting you see this information summarised. Might be worth a better Google?
http://www.carolenash.com/pdf/theftsurvey/theftsur...
From 2008 and just one company, but shows they're occasionally letting you see this information summarised. Might be worth a better Google?
Prof Prolapse said:
I found this;
http://www.carolenash.com/pdf/theftsurvey/theftsur...
From 2008 and just one company, but shows they're occasionally letting you see this information summarised. Might be worth a better Google?
They publish that every year, or at least they did until Groupama bought them in 2009. http://www.carolenash.com/pdf/theftsurvey/theftsur...
From 2008 and just one company, but shows they're occasionally letting you see this information summarised. Might be worth a better Google?
croyde said:
I have a Street Triple, owned since new in 2009 yet I have lost count of the amount of times people have attempted to nick it.
The last attempt was after only one week in the car park of my new flat so it currently sits sans ignition barrel back in the front garden of the family home, which means I don't use it often as it's a fag to go and get it. Plus Triumph want £250 to fit a new one and I refuse to be ripped off, especially as their locks are obviously pants. I can now start it with a lolly stick.
Also I have to think about where it will be left outside wherever I happen to be working, thus again I don't use it so much.
Now I have just spent the weekend working with a mate who has a BMW K1300R. He's had it the same length of time that I have had the Triumph and he also leaves it on the street in London as well as taking it wherever he works. He claims that no one has ever attempted to steal it as the bike's demographic rider is a 40+ year old man not some young hotshot that would like a Street Triple.
Anyone agree with this thought? I must admit that it was behind my thinking about getting the new water-cooled R1200GS but I do like the racier look of the K.
Oh! and another mate had his whole instrument panel taken from his W/C R1200GS in broad daylight in Mayfair London. It's just unplug and take and it cost about £800 to replace.
What theft deterrent are you using (i.e. disc lock/chain etc)? I ask simply because no thief will try and rip out your ignition barrel if there's a dirty great lock stuck to the bike that he can't disable first.The last attempt was after only one week in the car park of my new flat so it currently sits sans ignition barrel back in the front garden of the family home, which means I don't use it often as it's a fag to go and get it. Plus Triumph want £250 to fit a new one and I refuse to be ripped off, especially as their locks are obviously pants. I can now start it with a lolly stick.
Also I have to think about where it will be left outside wherever I happen to be working, thus again I don't use it so much.
Now I have just spent the weekend working with a mate who has a BMW K1300R. He's had it the same length of time that I have had the Triumph and he also leaves it on the street in London as well as taking it wherever he works. He claims that no one has ever attempted to steal it as the bike's demographic rider is a 40+ year old man not some young hotshot that would like a Street Triple.
Anyone agree with this thought? I must admit that it was behind my thinking about getting the new water-cooled R1200GS but I do like the racier look of the K.
Oh! and another mate had his whole instrument panel taken from his W/C R1200GS in broad daylight in Mayfair London. It's just unplug and take and it cost about £800 to replace.
I had my (steal me yellow) Daytona nicked in London. I was foolish and left it outside my house for 20 mins, protected by nothing more than its steering lock. Now its replacement is permanently secured with an alarmed disc lock and a fking great chain when parked overnight. Touch wood, it's been left alone thus far.
Perhaps that's where you should look to?
After my first bike was nicked, I too looked at getting a stter that no-one would ever notice, but I wasn't prepared to be beaten by these maggots. I enjoy riding too much to have to make do with a st box for fear of having something nice stolen. Instead, I just make sure that if someone really wants my bike, they need to be prepared to try and overcome its security first (and hope to fk I don't come storming out the front door armed with my 7 cell Maglite).
I only have, and it's the thing that hasn't deterred attempts but has stopped them riding away, a Xena disc lock.
The alarm on it stopped working a while back but as it's on the back disc, it's not noticed (even by me on occasions) hence that disc is warped.
I suppose as I now have a dirty great Givi top box, I should carry a big chain with me as a useful and obvious deterrent.
Suggestions gratefully accepted, ta.
The alarm on it stopped working a while back but as it's on the back disc, it's not noticed (even by me on occasions) hence that disc is warped.
I suppose as I now have a dirty great Givi top box, I should carry a big chain with me as a useful and obvious deterrent.
Suggestions gratefully accepted, ta.
hman said:
Mates of mine used to dispatch ride on those back in the 80s. Who'd of thought that that would fetch so much now Kawasaki versys, I have one, and I'm in Liverpool, and as far as I am aware, no one has attempted to steal it and it's been commuting around liverpool for 5 years. They are just that ugly...
I know of a failed attempt to steal bikes where a versys was pushed out of the way so that other bikes of lesser value could be stolen.
I know of a failed attempt to steal bikes where a versys was pushed out of the way so that other bikes of lesser value could be stolen.
jackh707 said:
Kawasaki versys, I have one, and I'm in Liverpool, and as far as I am aware, no one has attempted to steal it and it's been commuting around liverpool for 5 years. They are just that ugly...
I know of a failed attempt to steal bikes where a versys was pushed out of the way so that other bikes of lesser value could be stolen.
That made me chuckle and probably right, they are an acquired taste...I know of a failed attempt to steal bikes where a versys was pushed out of the way so that other bikes of lesser value could be stolen.
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