How do you secure your scooter from theft?  By  Skunk Shampoo (Read 5,664 times)

I used to sell scoots...now I just do parts/repair. I had 5 brand new ones stolen in one year...3 one spring then three the next. The first 2 they used bolt cutters on the shop door lock...it had a Hasp&Latch but was only 30 feet from the house so we could see and hear anything going on. Went to Wal Mart and came back...they were gone..wheeled away leaving tracks and footprints in our dirt driveway. I used to set them out by the road...use a disk brake lock and heavy chain to secure them to a tree. When one of the three was stolen I was outside 200' feet away(we gotta long dirt driveway) Busy fixing a customers exhaust bolts I was laying on the ground.They must have perused the scoots a few times cause they were prepared with bolt cutters. Whole thing took them less than 10 seconds in broad daylight! Driver snipped the chain.....2 other boys picked it up and slid it in the trunk..a Varooom! Off they went. Tried to chase them down..but too late...long gone. One of the other new ones for sale.. stolen from the front of our house was disk brake locked and chained..even had the alarm set. I was sitting 50 yards behind the house Squirrel hunting and heard the alarm...sprinted my out there gun still in hand. I got there in a flash cause I am a runner...(3 miles in 16:45)..but they were gone. Alarms do NOTHING!!! All 5 of my neighbors said they heard it..but did not even look out the window cause in town..."We hear them damn alarms going off all the time for no reason".... Bottom line still lock it...use an alarm..when in town park it in a very visible spot and secure it well at home. MORAL OF THE STORY: When a thief is bent on stealing something the honestly is REALLY nothing you can do. Also 'Booby Trapping' is illegal! I found out the hard way. My car was broken into..so I took speaker wire and connected it to 2 Estes Rocket igniters...then to a pack of 50 firecrackers after first connecting the wires to my dome light and closing all doors. Figured it would scare the poop outta them. I showed the Officer when he arrived and was made to remove it as he watched. Reason being....if it startles the thief and he trips or takes off and runs into something or is injured in any way during his crime...we can be sued for his injuries.Huh? What a crock of !!!

A cheap gps cell phone pay as you go tied in to the bikes electrical system and hidden under the fairings. Just buy some minutes if the bike is stolen and locate it. Poor mans LoJak.

Me thinks that sometimes, ya just gotta take matters into your own hands.

If I found my stolen property in someone elses yard,garage, parking lot, ... it's coming home with me..

BINGO! Young fella down the road just paid off a $1,600 fine. They gave him days to do it. I do not see how any ticket or fine corrects the problem at hand. All the kid learned was....in those days all your money goes to them..so you go without eating..or only eat one meal every other day....and that you live your last 28 days..of those days...without electricity. He rides his bicycle to work 5 1/2 miles daily. One week we had a bad blizzard so he walked for 3 days. He missed an appointment with his Probation Officer during the blizzard cause she is 16 miles away and he could not ride his bike. So he gets slapped with $1,600. Again how did that fix the problem? The only lesson Andrew learned was that....once the law is on your @ss...no matter how hard you try..you are screwed and they get a lil more revenue to line their pockets or frivolously waste on departmental things they don't need. Meanwhile you go hungry days..and without electric 28 days which means no heat as the gas furnace needs electric spark to ignite it. The town got together...we gave him 2 Kerosene heaters and the rest gave him 30 gallons of Kerosene. Which shows how the system works....WE THE CITIZENS..must ban together to help each other. He would have frozen to death in his lil apartment if we did not lend a hand. The system would just say..gee..that's to bad...a young man froze to death. Ok he messed up and let a friend talk him into doing a stupid thing. Since then he learned(on his own not by fines) he learned what he did was wrong and stupid...made amends with the lady whose house he broke into by shoveling her snow all winter and now he is cleaning up her yard and clearing a Garden plot for her. That is HOW the system should work..not take all your money making you starve and freeze.

Skip to the three minute mark. Unless you have your bike locked to something solid with a real solid chain/cable, it takes about 25 seconds to make off with it.