it's jinxed, I tell you

the ZX7r that is.

first, it attracts crazed asylum seekers, causing mild injury.

Now, it's been nicked.

Some scrotes managed to crowbar (or whatever) my garage door open, and
made of with the thing (ignoring the 'blade, and the 60 or so bottles
of wine, which is nice).

Phoned the dibble, and after about 20-30 minutes of being put on
hold/passed from one person or another, turned out the bike had been
reported as abandoned about 7am this morning. Apparently it "didn't
look damaged", though how they could tell given that it was
pre-disastered on both sides is anyone's guess.

Anyway, I trek over to where it's supposed to be (a 20 minute walk),
and eventually after a further 20 minutes of searching, find it, lying
on it's side in an alley. After picking it up, there's only two obvious
things more wrong with it than before:

1) the clutch lever is a bit bent, from where they've let it fall -
don't thieves know how to work a sidestand?
2) The key barrel / ignition area is a bit of a shambles. They'd
chiselled the whole fucker apart, smashed the steering lock and pulled
all the wires out.

They'd obviously had a fair go at hotwiring it. In fact, they would
have got away with it had it not been for the pesky immobiliser. When I
got there, I deactivated the immobiliser, and rejigged the hot wiring.
It started. So, I though I could ride it home. Uh-oh. The clutch lever
doesn't appear to engage the clutch.

Oh well, that'll be an hour of sweaty pushing-a-1/4-tonne-bike home
then.

It'll teach me to be blase about security - all bikes now firmly
anchored to the ground/each other, and the 7R is now sitting in
"alarmed and immobilised" mode rather than just "immobilised".

Also, need to work out what's wrong with the clutch. Given the
mostly-track nature of the bike, I'm tempted to ignore the broken
ignition barrel, and just wire it through a switch; relying on the
immobiliser/alarm for security.

Two questions arising:

1) how did the fuckers get it so far without getting it going?
2) why did they take the 7R and not the 'blade?

 

Pushing it? Or stick it in the back of a van, then dump it when they
realise it's immobilised?

Hasn't the blade got HISS or something? Perhaps that's why they avoided it.

 

The Blade has HISS doesn't it? Maybe they're a bit numpty and decided they'd
take the one most likely not to have an imoobiliser.

What sort of garage do you have that can be crowbarred open as a matter of
interest?


(Someone did have a go at mine awhile back, but all they did was put a dent
in the top of the door - subsequently the security has been somewhat
improved so I think they'd need to pull it off now - made difficult
considering there are two cars parked in the way.)

 

<surprised>
Given my knowledge of the anti-hotwire device on Kwacks, I'm surprised
by this. Had they got all the wires out of the switch, or was part of
the switch still in the circuit?

ZX7Rs are much cooler than Fireblades.
--
Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Oh, and:

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=&output=gplain

 

Because they are fucking arseholes.

Just an idea you may wish to consider:

I have a cheap, battery powered alarm in my shed, which has a keypad and PIR
activation. When the shed is locked, the alarm is always on. At night I
plug a baby monitor in the leccy socket in the shed, the other half goes in
the house. Although the alarm is only 110db, the racket transmitted via the
baby alarm would be sufficient to wake me in the event of a break-in. Oh,
ground anchors and FOAD chains are also worth having, if only as a visual
deterrent.

What an arse pain, it really pisses me off when some fucker decides to help
himself to ones hard-earned.

 

darsy says...

<snip tale of grand theft>

You want to move to a less pikey area, you do. Somewhere up north
perhaps...

The same way you got it back?

As others have said HISS, or maybe they just liked Kwacks. I'd have gone
for the RG myself.

 

Can you imagine having to push that thing for any distance?

 

darsy wrote

Bastards.

They obviously don't know that you have mates who have semtex. Time to
educate the thieving scrotes perhaps?

Thieving scrotes are thick.

 

double outward-opening wooden doors with semi-opaque glass at the top.
They smashed the window, and crowbarred the hasp off. Oh, and on the
other less-easy-to-get-at hasp, they simply twatted the (admittedly
small) padlock off with a hammer or something.

 

avoided it.

yeah, could be that. Though I don't think it was a "professional job" -
much more likely to just be local scrotes wanting something to race up
and down the A10 - anyone who knew what they were doing wouldn't have
taken a bike that had obviously been crashed at least twice already.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=&output=gplain

snot and up-and-over door, mind.

 

dunno. Well, there were five wires sticking out - they'd joined the
brown and red ones together, and it looked like joining the blue and
white ones would do something, so I tried it, and the neutral light
etc. came on. The grey wire didn't appear to do anything.

Note, it's not "right", because this set up would only function with
the side-lights on.

 

an hour's worth of pushing up and down hills?

not an ideal bike for haring around London in the dark, mind you.

 

the RGV? that would be a complete piece of piss to push compared to the
7R.

 

Oh, I have those, I just wasn't using them, because I find it a pain in
tits. I'll start now, though.

what has annoyed me most, and how I noticed in the first place, is that
not content with breaking into my garage, they forced the lock on the
garage/garden door (breaking the quite old wooden jamb) and had a poke
round my garden. The thing I noticed was that they'd opened the door to
the shed and obviously poked round in that too.

I can't believe they left all the wine and champagne - presumably if
there'd been beer, that would have gone.

 

I can only presume these are different scrotes to the ones I educated
after someone tried to nick my Seedy.

 

Yeah, just noticed that. Best not to screw a piece of twobyfour across
the top and bottom, then; might make it a bit tricky to open.

 

Yes, it would. I've lost track of which bikes you've got. I thought he
was talking about the RGS.

 

heh - fair enough. For the record, the current stable consists of:

RGV250 (not road legal in any way)
R65LS (fucked clutch)
ZX7R (most road legal, but gruesome)
CBR929RR-Y (nearly stock, and so far uncrashed)

all but one of the above previously belonged to a different ukrmer.

 

The only one that's road legal and hasn't been crashed, yes?

That can't be just coincidence, can it?