dont want to but in BUT since the security thing was brought up, I had a jeep and anyone who has had one knowshow hard it is to secure one. what I did was cut into the wire that went to the solenoid with a 3 position switch. position one was normal. position 2 was nothing and position 3 was spliced into the horn. I always parked it right outside my window at night and figured if the horn started honking it would probably wake me up as well as scare the thief off.
Yep, that could work. During the "hot years" of the CB750 (1969-1973 0r -74), the Honda Four suffered similar theft problems. Mine was attempted 4 times that I know of: I have a 1/2" thick, nylon-impregnated, 3X case-hardened, double-tumbler locked, aircraft-quality cable that can only be cut with a torch, that's always been used to keep it mine. It's scarred up, too, from the attempts on it, but even 72" bolt cutters can't touch it. It cost me $135 in 1971 dollars (about $400 today).
Once, I came out to find the cable wrapped all the way through the rear fork and parway around the rear axle, bending many spokes.
Once, I found a sheared 1/4" bolt lying next to the bike that looked like the cutter broke, trying.
Once, I found a partially-sawed through stair railing at a motel that I had it tied up to. The nylon cover on the cable was cut, but the cable only showed a slight scratch: I guess he had started there first. Never saw him, though.
Once, I found the bike lying on its side, with the rear axle loosened. The perp figured out the cable wouldn't let him have it OR the bike, and left.
And, many parts have disappeared from it over the years. I always figured that since it was seldom beat on the streets where I lived then, people were jealous...
For a while in an apartment I occupied, a dog kept lifting its leg on the pipes, which REALLY pissed me off. I finally hooked up a long extension cable to the bike, with one wire connected to the front spokes and the other to a nail driven into the blacktop nearby. I plugged it in every night, and about 3-4 days later, I heard a dog yiping down the street early in the A.M. That finally stopped it.
