Basitds messing with my bikey!! >:(

tk123

Ok here's the deal - somebody's been messing with my trip meter. :mad: I know it's only a stupid trip meter but if I think I have more petrol than I do and run out say going around the corner or in moving traffic etc it's a bit dangerous. And if they're messing with the controls, whats to stop them trying to sit on it and dropping it. I'm waiting for the security guys to check the cameras but in the mean time I'm thinking of setting a trap like red ink on the dial - any suggestions?

seamus

Find your nearest ESB line. Put a large rubber pad on the bottom of your stand. Hook your bike up to the line. Watch the sparks fly when someone touches your bike.

Oh, if only. My Honda never had this kind of problem - digital odometer. With the exception of a small blob of superglue on the button, I can't think of anything.

madrab

a big large dog?
anthrax?
ninja hamsters?

Pigeon Reaper

I'm thinking spare battery hooked up to the clock. When someone when someone touches the trip metre it closes the circuit delivering a nice shock which says don't touch my bike.
A trained rattlesnake on the clocks would work too. Keep some anti-venom on your desk and if anyone asks you for it insist on an essay explaining how they got bitten by a rattlesnake in Ireland and why they deserve anti-venom. Tell them they can't use the letter E to make it more interesting.

madrab

yeah but the official yamaha rattlesnake holster costs alot of money, so you might have to wait for oxford to make a cheaper waterproof one

tk123

what if the snake bites the dog

sutty

oh thats not your real problem. What if the dog sees a cat or Dog of the other sex. Your bike will be in runes.

I done the other thing and both an alarm. Cost me something like €37 euro for the alarm on a group by over on IBF. It makes a lot of noise and is very sensative if needed (IE: someone touching or sitting on the bike) There is also the great feature of the "finder/alart" function. By pressing a butten on the alarm fob, it will "chirp" something like 8 times. If you are in eyeshot of someone going near the bike it gives them a gaodauful fright. (125dB)
Great fun to see kids jump a mile from it... and anybikes around it lol.

seamus

On a serious note, do you park your bike somewhere where colleagues/public tend to gather to smoke? I've noticed that non-bikey smokers have a compulsion to fiddle with bikes in the car park while they're out poisoning their lungs.

tk123

its out of the way of smokers! I had an alarm on a bike before but it used to drain the battery - is there a way around this - maybe it was the cheepo alarm!?

sutty

I'm pretty sure, any halfway decent alarm will have built in power saving modes. I know mine doesn't drain the battery at all. Or at least hasn't caused me any problems when left on over the weekend.

KTRIC

I had the same problem when I worked in East Point. It seems to be a bit of an issue there.

I know for a fact that the security guard was one of the perpetrators of the aforementioned messing about.

During my time in East Point i spent the guts of 400 Euroz on an upgraded alarm to deter muppets. Now if you even put your hand on the saddle of my bike the alarm goes off.

numorouno

madrab wrote:

yeah but the official yamaha rattlesnake holster costs alot of money, so you might have to wait for oxford to make a cheaper waterproof one

rotfl

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tk123 wrote:

Ok here's the deal - somebody's been messing with my trip meter. :mad: I know it's only a stupid trip meter but if I think I have more petrol than I do and run out say going around the corner or in moving traffic etc it's a bit dangerous. And if they're messing with the controls, whats to stop them trying to sit on it and dropping it. I'm waiting for the security guys to check the cameras but in the mean time I'm thinking of setting a trap like red ink on the dial - any suggestions?

I'm guessing you want to scare them off, but not kill them or make them want to take any retribution

If you park your bike in the same spot, and there actually is a camera near by, then maybe put a sticker on you tank/near the clocks with:
"Smile, you're on camera"
and an arrow pointing to where the camera is/might be.

Finch-

Im actually bein serious , there should be some sort of system out there that gives ppl a little shock anytime the touch the bike. I would pay money for it

madrab

Finch- wrote:

Im actually bein serious , there should be some sort of system out there that gives ppl a little shock anytime the touch the bike. I would pay money for it

someone recently watched robocop

Pigeon Reaper

The girlfriend found someone on her bike in work one day. another bored smoker. He didn't realise that women can ride bikes and won't get off it as e was pretending it was his. He never touched the bike again.

An alarm is the best bet. If you catch anyone touching it have a quiet word with them out of earshot with everyone else. I found that talking to other bikers in the company area can help as they may have the same problem. In the company I work for a couple of well worded e-mails solved our problem.

russki

while we are still on it, maybe someone can give me a bit of advise.
I have my bike in a small public garage in our block of appartments. If I setup an alarm, I would more than likely not hear it, as it's around the coner and the garage is a brick structure with the door pointing in the oposite direction to my appartment.
I can think of only two ways of protection: (1) a very good lock (or more than one lock); (2) pay theft and fire and hope to recover most of the value if anything happens to the bike.
Neither sounds good enough. I had my car robed and badly damaged once and the insurer paid me, but then screwed me on the renewal, so they got their money back quickly. So, I'm not really in favour of (2).
But the (1) seems more promising.

What are the good locks available? Or maybe other ways of security (dogs, snakes, electrical shocks already mentioned. please, skip it :-) ).

Cal

Get a disk lock with built in alarm. It is a cheap method of discouraging muppets from sitting on the bike.

Cal.

russki

it doesn't fit my bike (Rebel '86). But I got the idea.

The Doktor

russki wrote:

I setup an alarm, I would more than likely not hear it, as it's around the coner and the garage is a brick structure with the door pointing in the oposite direction to my appartment.
).

You can get a pager to connect to an alarm. It has a transmitter, and you carry the reciver. If the alarm goes of, it will alert you.
Its a cheaper option than having a gsm set up (with sim card) and works up to a mile away.
have a look at datatools website.

KTRIC

The Doktor wrote:

You can get a pager to connect to an alarm. It has a transmitter, and you carry the reciver. If the alarm goes of, it will alert you.
Its a cheaper option than having a gsm set up (with sim card) and works up to a mile away.
have a look at datatools website.

I had one and they don't work, so don't bother. My expierience was with the Datatool one and in the end it turned out it had a 20 foot range !!!:eek:

I can't speak for other ones though. Another point, don't buy it from Bikeworld, they don't have a feckin clue.

The Doktor

actually, the pager I had wasnt datatool, the alarm was. Ill check out what make it is (on old bike). It works well enough for most situations. I had my bike parked at the green end of grafton st, and I was on westmorland st and it worked.
I normally dont go that far from the bike, so didnt test it too much. My main reason is if i have the bike in a car park, and im a building near it, eg hotel. Always worked for me.

oh, and i didnt buy it in bike world... cos they dont have a clue:)

KTRIC

The Doktor wrote:

actually, the pager I had wasnt datatool, the alarm was. Ill check out what make it is (on old bike). It works well enough for most situations. I had my bike parked at the green end of grafton st, and I was on westmorland st and it worked.
I normally dont go that far from the bike, so didnt test it too much. My main reason is if i have the bike in a car park, and im a building near it, eg hotel. Always worked for me.

oh, and i didnt buy it in bike world... cos they dont have a clue:)

Let me know what it is , I might get one myself.

Pigeon Reaper

I always find a big chain along with a cover works outside apartments. It keeps people from looking at the bike so they don't know what it is. Out of sight and all that lark.