Hello,

After seeing this video I started thinking of a disk lock or chain or something to secure my bike.

I've never had any issues, my bike sleeps in my garage and we have an alarm system so I think it's pretty safe, but why not go the extra mile and keep my bike from being taken.

What do you guys use, particularly British blokes that leave your bikes parked outside?

I have a 20 year old Kryptonite KryptoLok 10-S Disc Lock DFS Orange that I use from time to time but it's not rated as very secure.

I almost bought this type of lock for the scooter while in Barcelona, but it was going to take 3 days for the store to receive it and I would have already been gone.

Thank you for your input,

This until key snapped off in seized barrel



and now this since last close encounter of the scrote kind

Meaty ground anchor, with a heavy security chain and d lock, inside a locked garage. Tracker with text alerts. Baseball bat in the cupboard by the door (this last thing is just in case I feel like playing spontaneous baseball obviously.)

If on street I think one of the best security items is a crappy old bike cover with bird shit all over it, locked over the bike.

Had a guy here in australia get all freaky about someone potentially stealling his buell (common here to put into harleys)

Had it in his shed in his backyard, only accessable by going under his house and anchored to the ground etc etc. Unstealable he says.


Fast forward 4 months later, gets home from week away, someone has broken into his shed, cut the bolts with grinder, busted the doors to under his house and dragged his bike over the car parked under the house and its gone.


Nothing is unstealable, just need to make it harder. Mines chained to my track car that isn't going anywhere, if i had the 1290 i'd fit a GPS unit to it as well.

The best thing to use: full coverage insurance

I have one of the KTM orange disc lock thingies like in No.47's post - that's OK if I'm out somewhere and am going to leave the bike temporarily (though if in somewhere vermin-infested like London I'd use a more substantial lock) - at home in the garage the bike has that plus a hefty lock and chain on it.
If the scrotes are determined to steal it, then it's virtually impossible to prevent them, all you can do is make it difficult enough to deter them so that they lose interest and move on to something easier to steal. I don't know about in the US, but over here the insurance companies take the stance that if you didn't lock it up, you didn't take adequate precautions against theft, which gives them an(other) excuse not to pay up.