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blackbird9 said:
That xeon zbook is a cool laptop. I used to have a mate with a Bonneville, had a few rides on the back of it, although some bikers nicked it in the end. He woke up one morning and they'd loaded it onto a truck during the night and driven off, the bastards.
Have fun :-)
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Not Cool. Since I don't know Liam Neeson, I had to resort to hiding airtags in them and would rely on my own "particular set of skills", should anyone be so bold... err... so stupid... to actually try to take one.

In the sea of Harley's that are here this week (Laconia Bike Week), they draw a lot of looks and no matter where I stop, everyone I meet wants to tell me about how they either miss owning or riding one. I'm really old, so I get it. The only downside was that I didn't want to come home last night and face this laptop/firewall project. There is no layer 7 filtering required on the back roads of New Hampshire.



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Yeah, a bike is quite an easy thing to steal. Even if you chain it up, an angle grinder or other tools will go through the chain like butter. Another friend ended up buying a kind of hardened steel shed to keep his BMW touring bike in, which is pretty ridiculous lengths to have to go to. In the case of my friend who lost the bonnie, I believe he said they cut a couple of chains and then manhandled the bike onto a trailer and drove off with it; maybe they had a truck with a hoist, who knows. He was sleeping in the house and didn't hear a thing. Someone told him months later that it was the local biker gang who had taken it, I don't think he ever got it back. 😟

Another favourite trick over here is they jack up your car when you're away, or have left it in a car park, get underneath and saw off the catalytic converter, then sell it for scrap value (they contain platinum, rhodium catalyst). Apparantly they go after petrol vehicles rather than diesel, possibly why I've been lucky so far. This is an older article, but it still goes on today. Of course that's annoying but not as bad as losing a nice bike.
www.dailyecho.co.uk

Thieves take shine to catalytic converters

They can be removed in six minutes and sell for £120
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I found a video for Laconia bike week, looks great! A lot of nice looking bikes, I wonder if you ever get any British bikes turning up? :-) I guess it's going to be mostly Harleys, Buells etc in the States. We actually have a Harley dealership in Southampton near where I live, I occasionally see one riding around.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVpQRAgQY8
 
blackbird9 said:
Yeah, a bike is quite an easy thing to steal. Even if you chain it up, an angle grinder or other tools will go through the chain like butter. Another friend ended up buying a kind of hardened steel shed to keep his BMW touring bike in, which is pretty ridiculous lengths to have to go to. In the case of my friend who lost the bonnie, I believe he said they cut a couple of chains and then manhandled the bike onto a trailer and drove off with it; maybe they had a truck with a hoist, who knows. He was sleeping in the house and didn't hear a thing. Someone told him months later that it was the local biker gang who had taken it, I don't think he ever got it back. 😟

Another favourite trick over here is they jack up your car when you're away, or have left it in a car park, get underneath and saw off the catalytic converter, then sell it for scrap value (they contain platinum, rhodium catalyst). Apparantly they go after petrol vehicles rather than diesel, possibly why I've been lucky so far. This is an older article, but it still goes on today. Of course that's annoying but not as bad as losing a nice bike
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I once had a bicycle stolen from the apartment building where I used to live. The miscreants unbolted the whole bicycle rack from the concrete foundation while everybody was asleep.

I remember garages like this one:
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Just having a steel shed to deter theft and vandalism, as well as protection from elements - that was not overkill at all, but very practical considerations that reflected reality of what the neighborhood and city are really like. Although some of those sheds were actually used to store stuff other than cars.
 
I guess the 3 series BMW that the thieves drive has a converter that is difficult to get to... low clearance, and the underside actually has no visible parts, just a flat panel! I know that, because I drive the same model...
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I guess if they drive around and hit 10 cars in one night, and each cat is worth 100 pounds, they have 1000 quid to share between them. It's a scumbag thing to do though. Yes, maybe putting the covers on the underside of the car helps put them off.
 
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