I live in a ground floor, corner apartment and keep my little C3 parked right outside my bedroom window under cover.
Jumped on it to ride to work this morning and the license plate, frame, AND bolts were stolen!!!!
It had to happen in the middle of the night. We have 4 dogs who park at a gnat flying by, and all our neighbors know us.
Scoot is hidden in the dark under a dark cover, not visible from the road for those cruising by. 5 other motorcycles parked in our complex, license plates not mine, and intact.
Sorry to hear about your plate. Spend the $50 or so bucks and get a platepuller. Whenever you park for the night just slide the plate out and no more worries!
Anthonyf953 wrote:Sorry to hear about your plate. Spend the $50 or so bucks and get a platepuller. Whenever you park for the night just slide the plate out and no more worries!
You know, perhaps it didn't happen outside your place. Somebody stole my license plate off of my van, but they hadn't done it where I discovered it was missing. I had gone to Seattle and only noticed when someone came running up to me while I was parking, saying that my license plate had fallen off. Only, it wasn't my license plate. It was some other, that the thief had stuck on the bumper like a place holder. So maybe it had happened elsewhere, earlier, and you hadn't noticed.
Not that it really makes much difference...You still have to pay for a replacement. Sorry.
Anthonyf953 wrote:Sorry to hear about your plate. Spend the $50 or so bucks and get a platepuller. Whenever you park for the night just slide the plate out and no more worries!
Sounds cool! Where can I get one?
Www.platepuller.com it works great! I pull mine everytime i park for the night just in case.
Anthonyf953 wrote:Sorry to hear about your plate. Spend the $50 or so bucks and get a platepuller. Whenever you park for the night just slide the plate out and no more worries!
Sounds cool! Where can I get one?
Www.platepuller.com it works great! I pull mine everytime i park for the night just in case.
Wouldn't you have to pull it every time you parked and left the scoot?
In Chicago, if you park somewhere in public and take your plate off, the city will plasma cut your lock, or the frame, or whatever they have to do to pick it up and throw it on a flatbed and get it to the tow yard. It will then be labeled "abandoned" and thrown on its side on a pile of motorcycles and you'll be lucky to to find it, let alone get it back, and if you do you'll be ticketed for operating a vehicle without a license plate, fined for the tow, and charged for storage.
Try using really weird bolts, like safety torx in a weird size, or something like that.
2strokebuzz: When news breaks, we put it under a tarp in the garage.
Security Torx bits are too easy to find. Should get something like Triwing or Offset Cruciform, or the numerous license plate anti-theft devices out there. Could even just try some left-hand threaded bolts, might confuse the thieves why turning the screw left tightens it.
"When your mouth is yapping your arms stop flapping, get to work" - a quote from my father R.I.P..
always start with the simple, it may end up costing you little to nothing
Whimscootie wrote:Wouldn't you have to pull it every time you parked and left the scoot?
That, my dear, is the point.
And that, my dear, is why I consider it pointless. It seems like a huge amount of hassle and nuisance added to one's day, every day, to solve a relatively minor possible problem. (And if you forget ... the plate's even easier to steal!)
Whimscootie wrote:Wouldn't you have to pull it every time you parked and left the scoot?
That, my dear, is the point.
And that, my dear, is why I consider it pointless. It seems like a huge amount of hassle and nuisance added to one's day, every day, to solve a relatively minor possible problem. (And if you forget ... the plate's even easier to steal!)
Those plate pullers weren't invented to stop theft, they were created to prevent the owner from getting a ticket from parking illegally.
Anthonyf953 wrote:Sorry to hear about your plate. Spend the $50 or so bucks and get a platepuller. Whenever you park for the night just slide the plate out and no more worries!
Sounds cool! Where can I get one?
Www.platepuller.com it works great! I pull mine everytime i park for the night just in case.
I've been thinking about getting this, but then if it's "illegal" to park your scooter in a public place (like work) without the plate on it, what good is it?
I'd still have to leave the plate in the platepuller frame and then thieves could simply slide it out and steal it so much more easily than if it was bolted in.
Whimscootie wrote:
Sounds cool! Where can I get one?
Www.platepuller.com it works great! I pull mine everytime i park for the night just in case.
I've been thinking about getting this, but then if it's "illegal" to park your scooter in a public place (like work) without the plate on it, what good is it?
I'd still have to leave the plate in the platepuller frame and then thieves could simply slide it out and steal it so much more easily than if it was bolted in.
Thoughts? Am I missing something here?
They are to prevent you from getting a ticket for parking illegally on the sidewalk. Many jurisdictions won't ticket without a plate, and won't cut a chain to tow. Or at least what people hope.
Sorry for the condescending attitude.