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Post by Silar on Mar 22, 2016 20:21:12 GMT -5
They'll still steal them. I live in a good neighborhood so ironically that's of course where thieves go to find good stuff. There a pretty big drug problem where we live so I wouldn't put it past them. Our mountain bikes were stolen the first week we were here and scooters are way faster than bicycles.
I got the alarm disc locks for each scooter and an 80 grade 10 foot 3/8 chain to chain them together onto one of the posts in our carport.
I may setup a shotgun pointing at them with a trip wire eventually.. lol (not really)
All in all, I think that gives me a little piece of mind now knowing it's a bit hard for anyone to even touch them, let alone steal them.
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Post by kevin55950 on Mar 22, 2016 20:49:02 GMT -5
Little tip here... Be careful with disc brake locks. If you forget it once you can bend your disk and drop the scooter on the ground. Happened to my friend 2 years ago, she even broke the caliper carrier .
My friend had an easy tip that worked pretty well: a long (LONG is the key) steel cable attached to the scooter where it can be hardly seen. If some theft wanted to go with your scooter, he would not make long before the cable would reach his limit. He was doing that on his ATV and he got it stolen once. The guy that stole the bike had a really bad time when the 50ft cable reached the end. It has cost him a rear rack but the images (of the farm cameras) were epic. And the rack was way cheaper than a new ATV. It's the last safety barrier the theft will get before leaving with your scooter so it's only a worst scenario solution. You can also buy a ''magnet alarm'' in electronic stores just in case: the alarm will go on if you separate the 2 magnets. A small cable between the scooters and the magnets is all you need, and it's hard to see. Sometimes making safety too obvious just makes the theft want to steal something. ''Movement'' alarms are plain useless: when they are not too sensitive, you really have to jump on the scooter to trigger them. Theft will remove what's obvious and often forget about the hardly seen things. We have a lot of people stealing stuff in there, and because there is so much distance between cities it's easy to sell the stolen stuff somewhere else.
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Post by 2stroked on Mar 22, 2016 20:54:02 GMT -5
I have had a scoot stolen, along with ALL of my tools.
Now, all of my scoots are parked on my porch, all three have a ten foot piece of 1/2 inch log chain and a Brinks disc lock, all chained together, and all chained to a 3/4 inch thick eye loop, that is in a foot and a half of cement, with my porch boards above them.
The wife pitched a fit when I commandeered the portch, and moved the porch swing to the other end of the porch. But.... my scoots are safe.
I also put up a fourty dollar motion light, with those big ass three hundred watt halogen lights, pointing at the bikes. That light is so damn bright, that if a raccoon walks across the porch at night, it wakes us up, beaming through the living room window, and almost making it bright as day in all of our house!!!!!! Needless to say it took a few times to get the light set to cover the scoots, and not be activated by a critter.
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