No kidding...I use hand cuffs.

They are versatile, they just look cool and they may add a bit more "deterrent" being that someone may think you are a LEO.

(and they're fun to bring into the bedroom)

 

Doesn't everyone wear one of these?

 

gun lock on the swingarm, hang it on the passenger peg

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I tried going the HD helmet lock route, too, and like the OP, mine did not fit the HD engine guard either. So, as suggested above, I repurposed a cable lock that came with a Glock. Problem solved.

Buy a Glock, get a free helmet lock. Sweet deal.

 

I use a gun lock also.

 

Locking cable for skis works for me.

 

I've used various cables in the past.

I like the handcuff idea!!!

What I did was use the HD Brand helmet locks and mount them on the top of the bag guards. Fit's perfectly, out of the way, and right there when we need them.

 

Cable lock for me. I don't use it unless I'm at the VA or someplace I'll be away from my bike for over an hour.

 

You only use it when you park for over an hour??? Wow. $400 to $700 helmets are a quick and easy $50 sale for a crack addict that needs a hit desperately, and if he sees you park a bike and leave a helmet on it, it's gone in a minute not an hour!

I had a part-time mall security job for a while way back when, and you'd be astonished what drug addicts will take and try to quickly convert into cash. We used to see the following items disappear from cars and bikes:

- wrapped parcels that the thief did not even know was inside

- jackets, hats, gloves left with the vehicle

- insurance or registration documents (which the thief sells to identity thiefs for a few bucks)

- all 4 wheels off cars (no kidding - takes a pro crew only 2 minutes to get them all off the car and leave the car on wood blocks or on the ground)

- detachable luggage racks and sissy bars

As an aside, the most famous theft at one mall I worked at went something like this: A designer clothing store had its front wide open because the weather was so nice. 3 teenagers in a car pulled up outside, 2 left the rear car doors open, ran in and picked up a complete table covered with a large number of designer jeans, carried it outside, tilted it so all the jeans slid into the rear of the car, dumped the table on the sidewalk, and drove off. Those jeans cost at least $100 per pair and up.

In another case at a Louis Vuitton store, a druggie realized that a Vuitton purse in the front window was priced at almost $5000, smashed the window with a rock, and ran off with just the one $5000 purse, and got clean away. Two weeks later, I secured the store every night for 3 days straight while a crew installed roll down window security barriers.

Look at your bike carefully. Is there ANYTHING on it that is (a) fast and easy to remove, and (b) worth at least $100. If so, COUNT on it being a theft target, especially for a drug user who just MUST get that next fix by selling that $100 item for $20 to the first buyer he can find.

Jim G

 

I had a co-worker who knew this fact so he would wrap up, in xmas wrapping, every holiday season, his garbage, used cat liter, and dog feces in nice, wrapped gift boxes and leave them unattended in his unlocked/windows down/unsecured car. Each year, everything would be taken.

Fricken CLASSIC.

And yea, I always thought he had too much time on his hands to be giftwrapping dogshit. Still, CLASSIC.