A bike that thieves and chancers ignore.
Discussion
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.
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 
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