Parking at John Lennon Airport

According to

<http://www.best-motorcycle-information.com/airport-parking.html>,

there are available space for MCs at Liverpools John Lennon Airport
(although it doesn't say how recent the info on this site is).

However, in a post on another internet forum[1] someone questioned the
safety of leaving MCs there.

Anyone with recent experience of parking there?


[1] ukgser

 

Its scouse land .....

Only cars, sorry.

But they have always been there when I got back.

I could probably let you leave it on our drive (garage is a bit full), but
we are a 45 min bus ride from the airport (or 2 train rides and a bus).

 

Airport Car Parks:

Take ticket on way in.
Park against railing somewhere not obscuring a car space
Chain bike to railing
Exit by riding around barrier

I've never had a problem in any one of many.
Never parked that way in Mac as they have a rather excellent motorbike area

Special mention for IoM Ronaldsway who will leave it alone for 4 months

 

Parked mine for a fortnight there a couple of weeks back.

Depends on how much it's worth. I wouldn't leave an MV Agusta there,
but my shonky Firestorm was untouched.

Yep, stick a decent chain on it, and chain it to the armco next to the
short stay barriers, alongside the other bikes that will be there.

Paul.

 

Thanks for the offer - but from the other replies it appears my
airport transport is likely to still be there when I get back again.

 

Thanks to both Hog & Paul for this advice; will bring both my D-lock and
chain if I decide to fly out from there.

BMW K's seem to survive well at airports.

 

Will this be the 700SS?

<lubes chain cropper>

 

(ts) wrote in :

Unless the are newish ones and parked at Heathrow T5. There have been a
spate of thefts there recently of high value bikes.

 

<hides chain cropper>

 

Although it is a 750cc K, it's not made in Italy . . .

 

Mine has fortunately 6 valves in total, and not per cylinder.

I don't even think I have to put a "for sale, offers above £300
considered (defective gear box)" sign on it to deter people with chain
croppers.

 

Nothing for me to worry about, then.....

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Certainly not. There have been 3 in the last few months that I've heard
about. 1x R1200GS & 2x S1000RR. The last one was parked outside the NCP[1]
office & secured with an Almax chain. Chain & security system were defeated
in minutes & the bike was ridden away. It had a tracker on it but that was
deactivated about 20 minutes later. As stated in an earlier thread, the
unreliability of new BMWs has created a stong demand for hookie spares.

[1] or other useless shower

 

Real pro's then. The Almax is pretty tough but a hydraulic cropper will go
through pretty much any steel, assuming that the weapon of choice would be a
tad too noisy.

 

Not sure I buy this reasoning, actually. First, if they're new(ish) and
they go phut, they're under warranty, so why nick parts for them? And
BMW seem to be quite good about fixing things out of warrnty, too.

Secondly, I don't know how many ordinary owners of late model BMWs are
capable of stripping and fixing the things themselves - my guess is not
many.

Thirdly, if they had the dodgy spares and carted them off to their local
BMW dealer to be fitted, questions would be asked. I hope.

 

I expect it's for all the bikes that are being raced

 

Much more likely, at least for the 1000R.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

How many BMW dealers are there in Albania, Chile, South Africa etc? We've
discussed the Albanian situation on here recently? How many of those people
driving/riding stolen BMWs, Mercs etc go to the official network for
spares?

I gave that as a potential outlet as well in the last thread. The S1000RR
engine is fragile, on the race track at least.

It's not like this is a new phenonomen and sometimes overseas dealers are
in on the scam. A while back an operation that was shipping Rolls Royce
spares to Australia was caught. The parts were being removed and boxed up
in convincingly genuine packaging and sold by a RR dealer. Admittedly, this
was before computer inventory systems were common which would make it more
difficult for the dealer network to be involved. It won't stop the
independent specialists though.

 

How many bikes are out there, though? Not many. Cars - that's different.
It sounds like conjecture.

Missed the thread, but yeah, racetrack theft is an old favourite.

This is *car* stuff, though. Not bike stuff.

Traditonally, hookey bike parts are crash damage items. Plastic, lights,
forks, levers, wheels, clocks, you know the sort of thing.

I've not heard much of people breaking bikes for the oily bits. Complete
engines, of course: I've seen a few ringed bikes myself. But nicking
bikes to bust up the engines and fence the bits inside - nope, don't buy
it.

It adds immensely to the effort[1] involved in nicking bikes and parting
them out, and it won't actually save the buyer of such stuff that much
dosh, given the labour cost factor in rebuilding an engine. And as I
also said, I don't believe many owners of modern BMWs are capable of
stripping and rebuilding their bikes.

Sorry, I can't believe that this is a major factor in bike theft.

[1] And, quite possibly, the risk