what is the best ani-theft device

[jhutch2115]

what are people using to keep honest people honest and not take your ride for a ride, where did you purchase it from, and are alarms effective ofr not on a bike?? -- Thanks in advance, JIM  

[ben2go]

Safety Device=Outbuilding
manufacture=ben2go
cost=$300 aprox.
knowing that anyone enters my building will die=priceless

[lnb001]

Fork locks 

[bombadillo]

Are you trying to keep people you know from riding it, or are you trying to keep it in the mall parking lot without getting it jacked???  If it were in a parking lot,  Get one of those big lined kryptonite locks and lock it to a pole.  If its something that you're trying to keep people from riding get a good fork or rotor lock.

[yamahonkawazuki]

and dont forget you installed said devices before attempting to ride bike

[philward]

As Ben alluded to, the best security is a garage (ie storing it off-street).

I also have a disc-lock for when I'm leaving the bike unattended on the street for any length of time.  However, I wouldn't put all my faith in any of these sorts of security measures in the seedier parts of town - a bike is a very easy thing to lift/wheel onto a pickup, and any security devices can be removed at the convenience of the thief once they've driven off with your bike.  By all means use them as a deterrent (as I do), but they are no substitute for parking somewhere safer.

[Toogoofy317]

I got lojack and a disk lock. I know if it is jacked I won't know immediately ( ie sound alarm) but the police can at least ping it and find it hopefully!

Mary S.

[ben2go]

low jack  better than gone. unless some really dumb people steal it or the low has it's own power source and they don't find it.

[Toogoofy317]

came with the bike and a gaurantee! Better than nothing and yes it has it's own power source. Better than nothing and saved a lot on my moto insurance.
mary S

[Teek]

We have a security garage, and we chain the bikes together with rotor locks and a honkin' big chain between them, plus a big cable locking them both to the security gate's bottom frame. Lock the forks too, keep 'em covered when not using them so it's harder for people on the street to see what they are.

When we take them out, we don't leave them, or at least not where we can't still see them, or one of us stays to watch them, and we have rotor locks.

Do always look at your rotor several times before you mount up, my hubby forgot he had the rotor locked and almost dumped his bike in the garage.   

I saw the YouTube video of the guy breaking the fork lock on a GS with his foot, fork locks and rotor locks don't impress me as keeping a bike very safe on the street though, depending on location. Two guys with a truck or van, the bike is gone.

I live on the west side of L.A., and the number of bicycle frames still locked to poles and bike racks with everything stripped is really sad, sort of like oxen bones on the Oregon Trail. So we never turn our back on our bicycles either. We borrow the neighbor's Goodwill bikes if we need to ride a bike anywhere here and lock it up for more than 5 minutes, because no one will care much if they get stolen, except we always make sure we have bus fare....
 

[spc]

I use a garage and 8mm rifle.  Nothing like staring down the barrel of a larger caliber rifle to change someone's mind

[Cal Price]

I have to keep mine outside, I use a ground-bolt that a steel-fabricator freind made for me, a simple inverted "U" on a flat steel plate that is set into my concrete forecourt.

The best anti-attention, anti-vandalism device is a cover, the tattier the better, preferable an old brown tarp with slug trails in it. I might consider manufacturing and marketing one.

[ohgood]

1) A CHEAP cover. Although one of my covers was pulled up a little once, when everyone else's was stolen. My cover apparently was cheap enough they didn't want it.
2) Having an E instead of an F. No plastic = "Dude that mofo is old man, lets get that cbr1000000000rrrrrrr!!!!!!!1"

I'm guessing #2 has more to do with the handicap of being stoophid than anything else, and #1 just keeps kids off of it.

[simon79]

...Why would anyone wanna steal a crappy old and underpowered 500cc?
The GS is self-deterrent.

Kidding apart, I use a small U-lock for the front wheel (grabs through the brake rotor and a wheel spoke) and a small disk lock for the rear wheel (rarely used). And steering lock, of course.

Luckily enough, I have a garage where I can store my bike warm and safe.

[Jared]

Pretty much everything has been said...

Locked in a secure building... Disc locks and covers...and chained/ cabled  to something big.  Alarms etc are good- I know for SURE that the alarm I had on my GS saved it at least once. The one on my ZX11 saved  it multiple times at work.... At the House/Apartment I rented I bought a Handy Hut (Those little barn looking sheds) and built it before I took delivery of my ZX11...I beefed the doors/ door hardware up on the shed and had a Nice alarm installed before I took the bike home..

The CBR 600 F2 was only  Disc Locked and covered... That one got carried/dragged  away (The ZX11 replaced it). I was too cheap or lazy to put an alarm on that for some reason... Lesson learned. A cover is more time to burn for the would be thief...It is a deterrent- My f2 was covered tho...

If they really want it - they'll get it.

[galahs]

...Why would anyone wanna steal a crappy old and underpowered 500cc?
The GS is self-deterrent.

Kidding apart, I use a small U-lock for the front wheel (grabs through the brake rotor and a wheel spoke) and a small disk lock for the rear wheel (rarely used). And steering lock, of course.

Luckily enough, I have a garage where I can store my bike warm and safe.

I was going to say the best anti-theft measure is to park it next to a better bike.

[ohgood]

...Why would anyone wanna steal a crappy old and underpowered 500cc?
The GS is self-deterrent.

Kidding apart, I use a small U-lock for the front wheel (grabs through the brake rotor and a wheel spoke) and a small disk lock for the rear wheel (rarely used). And steering lock, of course.

Luckily enough, I have a garage where I can store my bike warm and safe.

I was going to say the best anti-theft measure is to park it next to a better bike.

yep. local white vans don't even slow down near my gs, but let the neighbors r6 be parked that day... and it passes 2-3 times by slooooooooow.

[Affschnozel]

If you get an alarm,get one with a pager that will vibrate and alert you when you're away , you can set it to first page you and then sound the alarm

so you'd have a chance on catching them at it 

[GeeP]

At home, I don't have to worry about theft.  The dogs take care of that. 

In the city, different story.  Try to tier your deterrants.

1)  Don't let it be seen in the first place
2)  Lock it inside a structure, if possible
3)  Make it difficult to steal by chaining it to something and locking the steering
4)  Install an alarm
5)  Know your neighbors.  If you have good neighbors, watch out for each other!

[cd]

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