Well, not my bike. But a buddy of mine has an SV650. Thing is fairly new but has a dented tank, a bent radiator, rash on the flyscreen and front fender, and a cracked tail piece (was in a nice accident where it met a bank of dirt). No idea why but someone tried to steal it over the weekend. He said he came down Monday morning and the ignition was visibly messed with. He also says he could only get the key in about 1/2 of the way. Needless to say he can't start it. Any suggestions on where to start? Is it easy to replace the ignition cylinder? Is it easy to disassemble and fix, if there is something jammed in there? I have no experience with this...
it's real easy to get the lock mechanism out, i'd say start there and see what's wrong with it.
Quote from: ivany on April 21, 2009, 08:03:58 PM
Well, not my bike. But a buddy of mine has an SV650. Thing is fairly new but has a dented tank, a bent radiator, rash on the flyscreen and front fender, and a cracked tail piece (was in a nice accident where it met a bank of dirt). No idea why but someone tried to steal it over the weekend. He said he came down Monday morning and the ignition was visibly messed with. He also says he could only get the key in about 1/2 of the way. Needless to say he can't start it. Any suggestions on where to start? Is it easy to replace the ignition cylinder? Is it easy to disassemble and fix, if there is something jammed in there? I have no experience with this...
Take it to a locksmith. They can probably help you fix it. Either the thief broke something off inside the lock or forced the mechanism and broke part of it. Your friend could just pop the cylinder out and hot wire the bike like the thief would have eventually done to get to the bike to a shop. Worst case, he'll need a new cylinder, but that shouldn't be terribly difficult to replace.
Quote from: fred on April 21, 2009, 11:56:48 PM
Quote from: ivany on April 21, 2009, 08:03:58 PM
Well, not my bike. But a buddy of mine has an SV650. Thing is fairly new but has a dented tank, a bent radiator, rash on the flyscreen and front fender, and a cracked tail piece (was in a nice accident where it met a bank of dirt). No idea why but someone tried to steal it over the weekend. He said he came down Monday morning and the ignition was visibly messed with. He also says he could only get the key in about 1/2 of the way. Needless to say he can't start it. Any suggestions on where to start? Is it easy to replace the ignition cylinder? Is it easy to disassemble and fix, if there is something jammed in there? I have no experience with this...
Take it to a locksmith. They can probably help you fix it. Either the thief broke something off inside the lock or forced the mechanism and broke part of it. Your friend could just pop the cylinder out and hot wire the bike like the thief would have eventually done to get to the bike to a shop. Worst case, he'll need a new cylinder, but that shouldn't be terribly difficult to replace.
I'll take a look. My friend is not so keen about, ahem, getting things done to his bike.
It's too bad. He crashed the bike in September and tweaked the shifter and forks. Just a few weeks ago I finally convinced him to come by, we re-aligned the forks and replaced the shifter. He was so stoked about riding it! He rode it everywhere after it was fixed. And now this happens.
He doesn't even care too much about replacing the cylinder. Just wants to be able to ride it.
Yeah, but if he hot wires it, the next thief will steal the bike in seconds. Might as well put a "steal me" sign on it. Also, I bet cops would look at you funny if they saw you riding around on a bike that's been hot wired.
I really wouldn't think a cop would know you've hot wired the bike. I've known people who had junky old bikes know one would steal, they lost the key and simply put a hidden ignition switch on it, or you could be fancy and hide a magnetic reed switch so you need to stick a magnet on a particular section of bike to start it.
Quote from: qwertydude on April 22, 2009, 01:01:22 AM
I really wouldn't think a cop would know you've hot wired the bike. I've known people who had junky old bikes know one would steal, they lost the key and simply put a hidden ignition switch on it, or you could be fancy and hide a magnetic reed switch so you need to stick a magnet on a particular section of bike to start it.
My friend who's a cop went to car stealing school where he learned all kinds of fun facts about hotwiring vehicles and other techniques used to steal them. Cops are good at spotting that kind of thing, it is their job...