London, unsafe and getting worse.

[Simon_100]

Your next bike should be either an old 600cc sports bike or a 250cc 2T MX bike.

You need to do some 'maintenance' on it before leaving it in your otherwise empty garage and forgetting to lock the door.

Maintenance to include:

1) Contamination of brake pads with grease

2) Lubing throttle cable with chain lube...makes the throttle sticky

3) Slightly misaligning rear wheel and not tightening spindle quite enough

And anything else you can think of...

Actually years ago - I mean 35 years ago! - someone we knew did more or less the same thing to her husband's Montesa, genuinely hoping that he's cop it over a cliff down the road from their finca up in the mountains. Then a few days later in a drunken row she took off on the first bike that came to hand ...

Regs

Simon

[Simon_100]

you just said what we were thinking. we are all doomed

Indeed we are ...

Furthermore ...

But of course it could be worse ...

Regs

Simon

[thepav]

I agree, a total prick

[ollydog]

You can't follow your passion any more because you're £15k+ bikes keep getting stolen?
Just a thought...buy a £2k bike and they won't be interested.It works for me! (thumbs)

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if you look at the stats, by a long chalk its the smaller cheaper capacity bikes that get stolen because the security matches the value of the bike so its easier to nick. higher value bikes are nicked generally to order for their parts and less frequent.

steve

[ollydog]

just to add, last wed night we had are community watch meeting, the cops failed to turn up, everyone wanted to talk about parking and the very nice honda hornet parked 30 meters from the church hall got nicked and a house broken into for the keys i kid you not.

go onto the cheadle facebook page and read all about it, yer carnt make this stuff up

steve

[ollydog]

Cheap bike, cheap house, cheap car , ugly wife, cheap clothes, cheap brakes, some people really don't appreciate the finer things in life.

dont forget the cheap women,

steve

[Simon_100]

dont forget the cheap women,

steve

No such thing Steve, the full price isn't always on the label .... :whistle:

Regs

Simon

[ollydog]

ha ha and dont we know it but we will always get ripped off and we never learn (thumbs)

steve