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I rode to work in East Perth and parked in the usual spot in the public car park outside. Later I got a phone call from a private number, it was the cops telling me that someone had tried to knick my bike.
The bike is a bit scuffed up but no significant damage. The Kryptonite disc lock definitely helped save the day. Cops got a call from CCTV surveillance and busted the little shits. The wiring was pulled out of the throttle side so the bike went on a tow truck and I took the train home.
Shits me that my new paint job is fucked up...
After the attempted theft of my bike, I'm curious to know what my options are for putting an alarm or any other security device on the bike. Who knows anything about the options? In the 21st century there must be a bit of hi-tech stuff which can be attached to the bike to warn the thieves and alert the owner. Yes, I do know that about the risks of parking a bike in public unattended, which is why I don't ride the older bikes to work, they're irreplaceable.
At this stage I need to wait until Monday to find out where my bike is in the queue for repairs, or even if it is going to be repaired. The damage looked fairly minimal but I'm told that if there's anything wrong with the wiring then they'll replace the whole loom, ka-ching there goes a couple of grand. If it is written off, it will be a repairable write as opposed to a statutory write off which can never be registered again. I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.
The questions I'm now asking myself are, what will the assessor say and what will I do if they want to write it off. If it's a write off, I'll need to look closely at the assessment and go from there. I want to keep this bike but I'm not sure about what to replace it with if I let it go.
To be continued...
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