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When traveling, Kryptonite lock, lock the forks, cover the bike, park it right outside motel room ask the night clerk if you can park it by the office so they can see it on security cameras.. At home locked in garage with security.. etc..
A friend related to me that he poked his head out of his tent one morning while on the road and turning back and asking his wife if they had left a motorcycle chained to a picnic table when they went to bed. They took the table, too. That is why he was riding a brand new 78 something or other when we met
I bought a cheap camera at Walmart for $30 for the garage. Works off an app on my phone so I can see my bike at anytime and it will also send me alerts.
Here's a shot of my bikes just a few minutes ago.
Full coverage insurance on all 3 of em. My fortified garage door weighs around 350 lb with shatter proof lexan and re-bar welded inside the little door windows. IF ya get past that, ya still gotta get through the booby traps to get the door open and the bikes out. On the road . . . open carry.
For me it was a competition to see who was the laziest. For a while there I was so lazy I didn't even bother locking it up. Woke up one morning and the bike was gone. Went to my landlord, and the guy across the alley, and pulled video. We could see some homeless-looking dude pushing it down the alley, also where he stashed it, about 50 yards down the way. So I walked down there and stole it back from him. Some like junior police cadet -- apparently too young to carry a gun -- showed up two days later, in the middle of the night, rolled her eyes and asked if she really had to make a report, needless to say too lazy to walk down there and do a knock-and-talk. So I moved, basically.
I was primarily counting on inertia. 800-lb bike that basically can't be started without the fob. Open question who lost the lazy-contest here, but I will admit, pretty much anything I coulda done would have saved me, and the meter-maid, at least some trouble. Moral of the story: don't live in California.
At work I don't have to worry because our parking lot is behind a coded access gate.
When I'm out and bout I lock the fork.
If I feel a little iffy about where I'm parking I will use a little trick a friend showed me.
Unplug the starter wire and then slide it back in without making a connection.
It won't start unless they know what to look for.
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