A bike that thieves and chancers ignore.

A bike that thieves and chancers ignore.

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croyde

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22,696 posts

229 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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.

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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R1 - all the chavs & scummers already own one hehe

moanthebairns

17,917 posts

197 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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?

neelyp

1,690 posts

210 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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GTIR was selling his ZX9.

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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neelyp said:
GTIR was selling his ZX9.
biglaughbiglaughbiglaugh

mike-r

1,539 posts

190 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Jap cruiser of some sort, no one will steal that.

.blue

726 posts

179 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Middle weight sports bike that's cosmetically as bad as possible while being mechanically sound.

LoonR1

26,988 posts

176 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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.

GreatPretender

26,140 posts

213 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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.

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).

hman

7,487 posts

193 months

croyde

Original Poster:

22,696 posts

229 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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.

croyde

Original Poster:

22,696 posts

229 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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 biggrin

_Deano

7,405 posts

252 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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croyde, does your mate leave his BMW up by Fenchurch Street?
If so, i see it everyday, that thing hardly ever moves from there!

kenno78

321 posts

154 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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I used to carry a bike cover, Almax 3 and xena in a Kriega US10 on the back of my street. Covered up, thieves are less likely to venture under it.

Edited by kenno78 on Monday 18th August 15:32

NorthBank

35 posts

117 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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.blue said:
Middle weight sports bike that's cosmetically as bad as possible while being mechanically sound.
My GSXF600 fits that, 4 years commuting to London, never bothered with a lock or washing it that often.

jackh707

2,126 posts

155 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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.


SAS Tom

3,397 posts

173 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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My old K100RT was always ignored. Didn't even put the steering lock on and it never went missing. Even thieves were too embarrassed to be seen on it!

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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I parked a CBR1000FH, a CBR1000FM and an RF900R in the same spot(s) in E3 for a few years (consecutively) and none were touched. I used to find kids sitting on them occasionally, but they always dismounted when asked nicely.

toxgobbler

2,903 posts

190 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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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...