Dodgy Bloke!

Ducbird · Aug 16, 2015

Air Duck said: ↑

I live in a city (woo, eh?) and in this city scumbags from all over the place like to come and nick bikes they can probably make a pretty decent scumbag living off by them parting out.

Fuckin love my bikes. They feel like 'ideal' family to my warped brain, even the less good ones.

It's troublesome. If you're a tinker type then you'll be putting not inconsiderable type, effort, and money into making it suit you a bit better.

This shit takes time, and involvement.

I recently started fitting two trackers to my bikes. They use a PAYG SIM card, which I've got set to auto top-up (with a limit of five quid) and the trackers cost me around about thirty five quid each including cables, power supplies, charging cables, magnetic optional cover etc (eBay).

Once I sobered up enough to actually read some of the manual I quickly figured out how to stop the fucker texting me because it thought it had moved, or had a shock, or whatever, they've been a GREAT peace of mind.

Just to know that I can interrogate its location at will and that it should tell me if it's being 'bothered' has honestly changed a part of my life that could never leave a bike in the street without being partly-distracted with whether some fucker was loading it into a van, of that I could leave home for a day or more without worrying about the same.

Get cheapo non-subscription trackers and web cam security coverage of your home/garage. It costs fuck all these days to sort the lot - less than one set of tyres anyway - and the relief it can bring is worth it times over if you've got problems like I do.

I can now leave a bike and be confident it will tell me it's on the move and my phone will show me in real time where it's going on a proper friggin map. For friggin free.

Yeah, you better believe it - I can eat my friggin lunch without occasionally being troubled by stuff that isn't actually happening.

Just need to figure out how to apply that result to the rest of my life.
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