melvin2001

honestly there is no good way to secure a motorcycle (sorry), anything that can be picked up and placed onto a truck is inherently insecure. there are some REALLY good lock brands (abloy, medeco, mul-t-lock, etc) that make excellent shrouded padlocks. That and a big ass chain goes a long way.

other than that you are looking at electronic measures such as lojack or something similar.

i only pick locks in real life simulator. the graphics are great but the story is kind of depressing.

you can't.

basically security comes down to 2 categories.

1. Tamper Evident
2. Tamper Resistant

What this means is with tamper evident the goal is not to keep someone out, but its to know that someone got in. lots of things are link this.... an envelope is a simple example. or the plastic nonsense they put on your power meter.

Tamper Resistant on the other hand, the goal is not only to know that someone GOT IN, but to keep them out Long enough to respond. That last bit is important.... you'll never keep someone out forever. The goal is to do a risk assessment, determine the length of time it takes you to:

1. Identify the threat exists
2. Determin the appropriate response
3. Implement the response
4. Response stops the threat

this means if you know that someone will walk by your bike, on average 15 minutes... and it would take 5 minutes for them to identify the bike is being stolen, 10 minutes for the police to show up and stop the guy.... you realistically need to keep them out for like... 30 minutes.

buy a good lock :)

All this is good THEORY, in reality you just need to have shittier stuff than your neighbor, so people rob him instead.

All the time. Fact of the matter is that lock picks being used for actual crime is CRAZY low. generally speaking burglaries are smash and grab. the only incentive to pick locks is if covert entry is a MUST. it's a skill that requires some level of training (albeit very minimal to START), and will always take more time than throwing a brick.

This being said, working in the security field i despise security through obscurity, which is essentially the concept that something is secure simply because people don't know how it works. This model has been shown time and again to not work, the only way to know if you are secure is to learn!

he also takes his big ass chain out and public and swings it around