Do you rely on a disc lock?

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It would be fuckin' wonderful.

Thank you.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Oh good grief

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Wasn't a finger pointed at someone's highly sucessful second-hand biro
business?

 

I think 'Erk!'

Both of my 'main' locks, disc and shackle, are cylindrical types.

Mind ewe, the TL's alarmed/immobilized, and what kind of desperate
saddo's gonna nick a Quota?

This reminds me ot something I've been thinking about recently. Disc
or shackle locks only prevent the bike from being wheeled or ridden
away, usually used when parked in town or elsewhere away from home.

A decent steering lock would do exactly that, *if* it were properly
engineered. I'm not talking a cheap alloy lock body connecting to a
bit of tinplate welded on with pigeon-shit welds, but a proper
dog-clutch 'n' splines arrangement built into the steering stem,
perhaps with a shock absorber to prevent the thing from being wrenched
open. The lock connection would be tricky but I'm sure it's possible.

This would prevent one having to lug a heavy lump of metal around on
one's aluminium/titamium/carbon-alike rocket. It would also eliminate
the scratched plastics, bent discs or bent spokes that can sometimes
result from forgetting to take the ruddy lock off.

Obviously, a decent chain & ground anchor would still be sensible for
overnight parking.

Or am I overly optimistic?

 

Outsourced to geniuses, surely.

 

Not yet. But soon. Very soon. (Unless DCMS shoot the whole thing down
in flames, which is unlikely.)

I don't run stuff anymore, though. I build stuff for other people to
run. Much less hassle

 

Now, then. Was that the biggest whoosh in modern times, or doesn't it
count because it was Swindell the three-wheeled loon?

 

Yes. HTH.

The thing is, the manufacturers have been able to ramp up security to
something reasonable effective for a long time, but haven't. Why? Is
it because that to do so would add a fiver to the cost of every bike?
Would punters be happy to pay it?

The most secure lock doesn't prevent the bike being lifted into the
back of a van, but I have no idea what percentage of motorcycle crime
this line of attack represents. Honda have the HISS and recently
HISS2 systems which are claimed to be remarkable effective - but has
the incidence of theft of HISS-equipped bikes (the CBR family for
example) decreased?

You can use the FOADest chain and lock in the world, but that is still
breakable when frozen or AnglegrinderMan gets working on it. The
bottom line is that if some scroat wants one of your possessions,
he'll fucking have it. It is, after all, only a possession. It is
also insured. It may be a PITA, but that's a small consideration in
the grand scheme of things.

One may like to upgrade one's locks, however. Any scroat that didn't
know about the Biro Method does now. All you can do is hope that the
next bike to yours has a cylinder-type lock and he nicks that one
instead. I'll stick to me Abus Granite - the one with the flat key.

 

If a bike's nicked, the owner's likely to replace it with something.

Business is business.

 

Oh, yes, I'm not saying that it would be an inprovement in terms of
security, but it would be a damn sight more convenient at roughly the
same level of security. Possibly.

Inscos would need convincing though.

 

The latter

I found I no longer needed stabilizers at about age 5

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

I find that works for me. Park next to something shiny and attractive
and hope they take that instead.