There are 87,000 videos on how to lock your motorcycle and gear. This one is by far the simplest and best. Excellent info.

As my Dad used to say, "A lock only keeps an honest man honest, but it can give you time to reload"!

@expatbiker6598

3 жыл бұрын

If a lock keeps an honest man honest, was that man really honest to begin with?

@happysnowman3223

Жыл бұрын

@@expatbiker6598 Yes he is. By virtue of the initial premise ""honest man". However, just because a person displays a virtuous characteristic, does not mean they are not also capable of the opposite. Some day he can decide to be dishonest if he deems the circumstances to permit, but until then he remains an honest man.

@kevinleighton2988

12 күн бұрын

😂 👏

FYI, don’t run the chain through your wheel, they can just remove the wheel 🤷

@obeii1805

10 ай бұрын

Then what u run it through? 😂😂😂

@ZinoAmare

9 ай бұрын

@@obeii1805 frame? there might be a hole or something.

6:58 the ring needs to go around a frame member not a wheel. A thief can pull the axle and take the expensive part.

I’ve bent 2 brake discs by forgetting to remove the disc lock... the alarm is a better reminder than theft deterrent.

@ZinoAmare

9 ай бұрын

I use one with a chain and even if I don't use it and remove the chain I always look at the disc making sure It isn't there can't be too careful.

Thanks for making a video like this(I don't know if you noticed but I asked for it in the comment section, few videos back)!

V useful, just about to buy my first bike and this was super-helpful.

If you only lock up one wheel they can kickstand lean the bike over and set the wheel on a dolly and push the bike around. Tow companies do this all the time to remove motorcycles that are illegally parked.

@obeii1805

10 ай бұрын

Trying to picture this

@PetrolJunkie

10 ай бұрын

@@obeii1805 Say someone takes a cable lock and they run it through their wheel and part of the frame. The idea is that if you try to roll the bike the cable will jam up. In theory, it might stop someone from just pushing the motorcycle away. However, there is an easy way to defeat that. Tow truck guys do this all the time with illegally parked motorcycles. The motorcycle is on it's side stand. There is technique for turning the motorcycle around in a tight spot where you lean all the the motorcycle's weight onto the side stand and pick up the wheels off the ground. Then you can rotate it around in an area as small as a parking space. I carry dollies, platforms with casters on them that are mean to go under a car tire, but they work just the same on motorcycles. If the car has a flat tire I can put one under the flat tire and move the car around without damaging the rim, for example. If if the car is in gear I can use a dolly to move the car around without having access to the transmission to take it out of park. While the wheel is off the ground you just slip the dolly under the wheel with the chain through it and set the bike back down. Stand it up straight, and push it around just like the wheel was working correctly. 99% of the time the motorcycle is going on a flatbed when we do this. We do this specifically to avoid having to cut the lock or cable, that is customer property and we do not want to damage customer property. It's easy to do, quick, and results in no risk of damage.

Great info Alex! Rural living has always been my security! I have never had much use for locks. Kryptonite locks have been around forever. That would be my choice if I needed one. Security is very much a common sense protocol. Been very lucky to plan on all my rides for the best security. If someone wants your bike bad enough, it still can be gone in minutes with any of these locks.

@katietrotter9374

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. You can drill through the key hole on a kryptonite lock pretty quickly and relatively quietly.

About to buy a Grom and I plan on using all of these simultaneously after having my last back stolen when I was only 17 and broke.

Another helmet lock option if you're using the chain is to loop the chain through the helmet face bar (but your helmet will be on the ground).

I use a cover as a deterrent. (and a disc lock)

lol I just bought the kryptonite New York fahghettaboudit lock and chain last night. I may pick up a couple of those Oxford sets for extra deterrence

Great Video !

Nice job. 👍

The bully / disc seem a good combo along with cover..

😄😀😃Alarm woke up my cat!! Nice n loud that's what you want!!...Nice job Alex

Locks look good but how sturdy is the bikes rim spoke? Looks like a good hit with a hammer would brake the spoke

I've made the decision to get some sort of Maxi Scooter for my commute for Louisvile to Boulder 5 days a week. If you guys are still in Boulder I'd love to meet up for drinks! Honestly, I need to put my butt in the saddle of the options before deciding. Right now, the top choice seems to be the BMW C400. The used market is incredibly overpriced right now, in my opinion.

Thank you

nobody uses bolt cutters anymore. Battery powered right angle grinder will whip through anything in seconds. Alarm probably more useful unless its locked up in a very public place

whats the link to the krytonite lock

I tried one of these out yesterday in Chiang Rai. I am 6 feet 1 and was surprised at how roomy it is. Very slow off the mark compared to my 155 scooter. I was considering replacing it with a Monkey. Not now. Maybe a VanVan 200 instead. My main bike out here is a KTM 390 Duke. Important video, and I enjoy the channel.

Can you mention also how to carry all this big lock items. Assume we dont have any bag for example like monkey

Ignorant question: In college people stole bicycles all the time because they only locked the front wheel to a stand. Someone would just take the wheel off and make off with the bike. Could that be done with a motorcycle as well?

@marcalampi5036

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@TruthSeeker9038

Жыл бұрын

Yup I work security at a university and bicycle thefts are the #1 crime we deal with. Students only lock the front tire like you said, and with a weak lock and the tire can be easily removed if they don’t want to cut the lock. I use a heavy duty chain that goes through the body of the bike and the tires and wraps around the steel bike post, as well as another smaller steel cord that does the same, lastly I have an alarm system that goes crazy when it’s moved

Irrelevant but will you be doing a review on the new Indian chief ??? 😎👀

For the helmet it is easy to cut Helmet strap

You really should find a way to put the u-lock or the chain to the frame. It's easy to get the wheels off just saying

Nice video. That is not a bike is a toy...a nice toy

If I had to I definitely would use the Kryptonite.

Best lock is G lock

Pretty much all of these are defeated by a crackhead with a skateboard. “How so?” You may ask… you lift the front wheel onto a skateboard and walk away with the home. The only sureifee guarantee is chasing the bike through the frame to sobering rigid. All the other can slow someone down but virtually do nothing. Add in multiple air tags and a GOS and your chances of recovery greatly increase.

Do you guys think 50cc scooters are more likely to be stolen? Mines an old 2008 chinese 50cc scooter but it only weighing 200 lbs would make it ot very easy to man handle into a van or pickup truck. Even though it's not valuable some people steal just because stealing gives them a rush

6:15 FALSE! Oxford don’t harden their steal it’s very brittle and bolt croppers would make very light work if it.

I thought securing to the wheel was a big 'no no!'. Shouldn't it be secured to the frame instead ?

never lock a chain/cable lock system thur the wheel but thur the frame, I had one of my friend’s Grom stolen because he had his cable/chain lock thur his front wheel and all the thieves did was remove the front wheel and took the rest of the Grom and threw it in their vehicle. I use Apple airbag on all my vehicles, it’s low tech but if hidden correctly you can at lease try to zero in on it’s location.

@obeii1805

10 ай бұрын

Just cut the spoke n like the chain off 😂 here

way to go...$22 was a steal for a bike lock that is suppose to prevent theft...lol!

Leave the wheel and take the rest !! 😂

@shanecortez4604

12 күн бұрын

Yea really I thought the same thing !!!

Can people not take off the front wheel with a socket?

@YaboyCurtis_

2 жыл бұрын

It’s possible but not likely, thieves want the easy bike with no security so they are not going to be sitting there unscrewing wheels for a couple minutes.

👍

Can cut the brake line on the lever lock in 2 seconds, wait no a half a second.

First lock fails to a simple bolt cutter. Cut the handle and drive off

No lock is 100% foolproof, but something is better than nothing. Do a video on the different tracking devices made. With my hearing loss I could barely hear that alarm.

After buying my monkey I was wondering what that extra lock was by the spring

Nothing works better than out of sight.

That Monkey is nice.

Just cut the brake cable on that first joke of a theft deterrent.

Any device will be a deterrent to the opportunist thief. But not to a pro!

I would defer to your choice. And or multiple locks if I were that insistent on parking a bike in a high theft area. But personally, I don't feel anyone HAS to put themselves into that situation. ;) Choices lead to outcomes. Some are not favorable.

Don't like idea of locking one wheel spoke!, ...I'm sure a portable disc cutter would go through wheel spoke in seconds, yeah wheel is shot after that, but they still get away with a bike that probably still rides? also if a thief sells it on, he could probably fix with hardening putty and spray paint it then sell it! ...?

Sorry to mention the obvious, but any lock can be picked in minutes. In this sense it doesn't matter how beefy the chain is 😢

My friend has his helmet strap cut and helmet stolen. Thieves are definitely stupid, helmet was useless to them

Chin straps are overrated, just ask Jango Fett.....

4:33... Pickproof... 🤪😂 Definitely not pickproof. Nice video tho... Locks are to keep an honest man honest. Every lock is pickable. If a thief wants it, they will take it.... Quick.

I think arming your motorcycle with an rpg works too

Or or you could just live in saudi arabia, where if you steal you get your hand chopped off. isnt that the best deterent against theives 🙃

So what if your bike gets stolen they don't have a key to start it and drive it and they can't sell it without a key no one's gonna buy it and they'll know it's stolen and what good is that alarm if you;re inside of a building and can't hear it !!!!

@YaboyCurtis_

2 жыл бұрын

A motorcycle can be Hotwired with a screwdriver, thieves can still sell the bike but it would just be parts of it.

@jeffreyelliott622

2 жыл бұрын

@@YaboyCurtis_ Damn !!! Wouldn't do no good to buy one at all if you had to keep it locked up all the time !!! But if driven to work the public would see some trying to steal it would report it you would hope !!!

@jbean530

2 жыл бұрын

I work at a hospital with security and bikes get stolen all the time. Road bikes for sure. Motor bikes I’m not so sure. It’s probably better to cover it and use multiple locks. Like three at a time. I don’t know what else besides a gps, but I’m not too tech savvy these days.

I put a picture of nancy pelosi on my seat