Securing your bike while road tripping?

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Apr 2, 2019 | 08:20 AM

#31

assiniboine

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Originally Posted by Tarheel Leo

A good security system and park by the door if possible. I have two guards protecting mine. Mr. Smith and mr. Wesson. But like the man said if they're going to take it they're going to take it.

Let's make them work for it, eh?

Thieves are usually of the amateur variety - they go for the low hanging fruit?

A vandal is an entirely different dirt bag - for some reason I'd enjoy beating on them more!

Apr 2, 2019 | 08:22 AM

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Dan28

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Since I had a Wide Glide stolen (from my home) I got paranoid about bike thefts and on my next Wide Glide I bought a couple of the biggest chains available from Kryptonite, the New York Legend. I also had the alarm system with the remote pager installed on the bike. The next really long trip I took, I bought a cheap set of throw over saddle bags and took the chain and a cover with me. The chain ended up busting through the seams of the saddle bag and was lost on I80 somewhere.

Now I take my trips on the Street Glide and lock the forks, and use a disc brake lock along with it also having the security pager. If I'm at hotels, I try to keep it close to my room so I can see it out the window. Not really worried about it when I'm camping as its pretty close to me.

Now at home, I chain the bikes together through the frames as well as chaining each individual bike through the frame and front rim. Set the fork locks, alarms, pagers and use covers.

Apr 2, 2019 | 12:47 PM

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RK4ME

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Originally Posted by Dehammer

I do not understand this lamb mentality. Do you surrender whatever to whomever that wants what you have?

Do you understand what can happen to someone who shoots people in a motel parking lot, a long way from home? You'd better have a damn good reason, and money for a good lawyer.

Apr 2, 2019 | 12:58 PM

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dribble

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I set up a force field around mine.

Apr 2, 2019 | 01:25 PM

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adm

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Originally Posted by PinoyJedi

With the weather getting nicer and wanting to plan road trips was wondering how you lock down your bikes at hotels?

I have the HD keyless system with alarm and would also fork lock it, anything else? Disc lock?

Thanks everyone!

Insurance! I also have the keyless system and alarm, so just normally walk away from the bike and leave it to arm itself.

Most of my long trips are with a group anyway, so I figure if anyone is stealing bikes, then they will probably take the CVOs rather than my Fat Bob.

But also we tend to book into hotels with secure parking wherever possible. Bottom line though is if they want your bike badly enough, it doesn't matter what you do to secure it. So insurance is the final word....

Apr 2, 2019 | 07:47 PM

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guido4198

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Originally Posted by Dehammer

Stay in motels where you sleep on the ground floor with the bike just outside the window.

When I used to road trip with the FXR I'd just push it in door.

I’ve been traveling on my FXR for 34 years and 290,000 mi. That’s been my go-to technique for getting a good nights sleep. Roll her right in the room. Never got any flak about it.

Last edited by guido4198; Apr 2, 2019 at 07:48 PM.

Apr 2, 2019 | 07:55 PM

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Jjpmach1

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I have a Honda UTV on a job site, in Camden N.J. of all places. Well, 6 weeks into the job, it was stolen. I found it stuck in the marsh about 3 miles from the job. It’s insured. But I added a cellular GPS unit to it. It’s a great little system and it has various alarms. Even motion. I have a boundary setup on the job site and I get alerts when it leaves and enters the boundary. It Isn’t very expensive, a little over $100/year with no limits. I even bought a 2nd unit to swap between other bikes and dogs.

https://findmyscout.com/

it stores about 30 hours of history.

Apr 2, 2019 | 08:24 PM

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PinoyJedi

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Originally Posted by Jjpmach1

This is really cool, I've heard of devices like this but never really thought about them. Might have to read up more on this. Thanks!!

Thanks for all the other replies, I do have insurance on the bike and plan on staying at nicer hotels (wife works in hospitality so we get next to free rooms). Just looking for a bit more piece of mind to sleep easy.