i truly feel for you on this…..I had my XT200 stolen when i was 16 yrs and 10 months old….yep it was my only form of transport,even traded my beloved previous years race prepped RM for deposit… 1 month old & I bought it on H/P while on slave wages (junior rates $67.35 a week)walked out of work at 5.35pm to see the powerpole i had chained it to was empty….still burns me up 26 years later, cause the insurance company wiggled out of it and i ended up paying for a bike for 3 years that I had for three weeks.
Call me cynical but our bikes are never left out unless fixed inside the rear of the rodeo with kryptonite wire rope, and only left in plain sight while i pay for the fuel. Otherwise they are chained to the floor shackle and through a wall stud, all power & manual cutting tools are locked in a steel cabinet, (large boltcutters are locked in another shed 20 metres away) all of this is inside a double lined timber shed, with only one access door, double deadbolted, inside another larger Shed/enclosed carports, behind a locked 5′ steel gate, 30 mteres down my driveway with another set of steel gates at the very front, 6′ fences on all sides bar the front (4′ cyclone) down cul de sac, with lots of stay at home Mums and retirees, all sides neighbours have large roaming dogs, and i have my loyal four legged, tail wagging “security guards” (the Alpha and my old mate, the smartest fella died 8 weeks ago, but he taught the others all of his 15 years worth of tricks).
Paranoid?…maybe
Gunna have our bikes stolen from the house?…not bloody likely they’ll go around the corner and scope out someones elses place first.
I feel for any poor bugger who works hard to allow themselves a little pleasure, for some good for naught lazy scum to see it and just assume they are entitled to just take it.
Rant over
Just Mr Blue
