Locking Lug Nut for wheels/Rims Question

[Poolman]

OK, first of all...if you have a bike that looks nice, your going to have to face the fact that your going to need an enclosed trailer to have any illusion of safe keeping.

Second...A cable and lock or chain and lock will only stop the honest thieves. (Amateurs and rookies.) If you have never used a bolt cutter on a padlock, then you don't know how easy and quiet it is.

I've cable locked every part I could on my bikes together on an open trailer in a parking lot at a hotel that had cameras aimed at the lot to protect stuff. The camera did a great job of recording the random guy who showed up late at night to quickly cut the throttle cables off my carbs with some basic side cutters and run off with them.

If you can't afford a nice trailer because you spent all you have on the ATV.....Rent an enclosed for the weekend......or be ready to "Share the wealth".

 

 

That's good advice. My trailers not enclosed. From where the two bikes will be parked to my bed is 30 feet. We will have the Bikes Cable together with thick cable and heavy duty locks. I guess we could keep the window cracked.

 

I'm thinking some kind of sensitivity alarm strapped on each bike that will pierce the thieves eardrums if he set it off.

[zach45]

OK, Wash this a serious option or a joke, lol. I don't really know so I'm just laughing.

same thread and size as our banshees....

 

buddy of mine needed tapered lugs, so he took a stud to the auto store and they gave his 8 geo lugs

[WINDYCITYJOHN400]

I'm thinking some kind of sensitivity alarm strapped on each bike that will pierce the thieves eardrums if he set it off.

 

 

There are two models that work well for this.

 

One is made in Germany - It's called the Shepherd model.

 

The other is made here in the U.S. in Springfield Mass. - It's called the Smith & Wesson.45

 

But it would be a little hard for someone to steal your rims when your bike is jammed into a truck bed with a second bike. (Well....hard to do quietly)

But it would be fairly quiet to cut the lock, pull the cables free and just roll the bike away.

Maybe the route for you at this point in time would be to "Tarp" the bikes when you go to bed, and hang a handful of christmas bells from a section of the tarp. (Or put all your empty beer cans on top of the trap. LOL) That way if anyone messes with the tarp, you can spring into action.

I tarp the bikes on an open trailer just to prevent the punks from lusting after my stuff in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool to have people check out your ride and tell you how cool it is. But after they get a few beers in them and start HATING on you for having such a nice ride....it's not long before they get the "Robin Hood" disorder and start planning to take from the rich and give to the poor. (They of course being the poor.)