Hi all, I pick up my new 899 in a weeks time , so I'm new to the forum!! With this in mind, please bear with me if this has already been covered but I've searched and searched and can't seem to find a solution! I want to fit a ground anchor in the garage to secure the bike with a chain etc.......but it seems there is no way to do it, other than putting the chain through the rear wheel, leaving a thief to take the bike without the wheel......has anyone got any ideas? I'm aware of the 'anti-pinch pin' from Pragmasis but it's too big to go through the spindle on the 899 and Steve from Pragmasis reckons it was too much hassle to machine a smaller one, so has no plans to do any more! I've seen somewhere on here, a kind of rear wheel clamp that the also goes through the spindle and clamps the rear wheel but can't find the thread and can't find it on google......anyone know what it's called? Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post!!!
Interested to see what you work out, I've come from an 848 so it was pinch pin through the frame then pragmasis chain through ground anchor. I can't find any points on the 899 to put the chain or pinch pin through. What I've ended up doing is putting two chains together then through front and rear wheels through a ground anchor until something better comes up.
Hi, yeah that's exactly what Steve at Pragmasis recommended today as a possible solution. Seems like you'd need a pretty long chain/chains........what length chains are you using and how are you fixing them through the anchor? Cheers!
bloody hell… do you guys live in the middle of Anfield or Mosside or something? why do you need chain if the bike is in the garage anyway?
Ha On the contrary I live on a small holding so don't have neighbours as such, my concern is with the isolation someone would have plenty of time to get through to where the bike is, should they do that I'd want it to be the biggest arsehole to then get the bike out.
If you live on a small holding then there must be a tractor which will lift the entire floor/wall, so surely allyou are doing in securing your bike is slowing them down Gavin? Have you got a big dog?
In the isolation of a garage chains are useless to a professional thief - totally useless. They can be removed in seconds.