Hi guys, New member here! I'm picking up my brand new 2013 Tri Colour next week and I can’t wait! Already ordered my R&G tail tidy and paddock stand bobbins… I'm concerned about the security of it while its left overnight in my house garage so I have just ordered a ground amour to secure it to hopefully keep the toerags from nicking it. Just about to buy a chain for it and it looks like the best is the 19mm Almax with matching padlock. Can anyone confirm if the 19mm chain will fit through the frame and or swingarm of the fiebalde? Looks pretty tight? What about the 16mm (although I would prefer the 19m one). I don’t want to secure it with just the rear wheel as my mate had his R6 nicked like that, leaving him with just the back wheel and chain! So anyone using the Amax chains and know that they secure the blade ok? Cheers
Got the Almax 19mm chain, lock & Anchor on mine which is a 2012 model but the 2013 is no different bar paint. Chain goes through front wheel not back. You can't take the front off without removing calipers etc so it aint a 5 min job like removing the back wheel. You'd have a job to get a chain through any Sports Bike frame nowadays same as the swingarm (not that I've tried that)
I have the series 4 and as Sinewave said fits the front and on my 2011 blade the back without problem.
Cheers guys, so it goes round the front, and looks like it will go through the swingarm as well? Sinewave, could you just have a check next time your locking it up for me? Would be really handy to know as the way my garage is laid out I'm going to struggle to fit it at the front end of the bike. Unless anyone else knows for sure that a 19mm chain will going through the frame/swingarm of a 12/13 blade? Looks like they maybe space between the tire and swingarm/shock?
Hope you appreciate this Silky? Just been out to the Freezin' Garage in a T shirt & Slippers just for you! Basically you've got no chance whatsoever of getting any reasonably sized chain through the swingarm or the frame. The biggest swingarm hole is on the LHS of the bike but the chain is right in the middle of it so again no chance. Tis Font or Rear wheel only I'm afraid. Why can't you chain the front? Surely you just back in your Bike if the ground anchor needs to go at the door end of the garage?
Silky, I would consider a ground anchor on your garage door to, if its an up and over type. It visually deters thief s to look for an easier target. Lets face it if they bring a whizzer nothing's gonna stop them.
Sinewave, chain/anchor is better than nothing, but boy you've had made the tea leafs day easy by putting it on the floor, makes a nice anvil to muller that padlock with I am sorry to say.
I have no wall space available as it's all racked out along with work benches etc. Mounting the anchor on a wall is less secure IMHO as pulling, chipping, stich drilling a brick out is easily and quitely done and their away. getting that anchor out of concrete would require a decent SDS breaker, not sumat anyone could do without me being alerted! Twatting hell outa the Paddy would be just as easy with a wall anchor as all that's required is sliding the chain and Paddy around till the padlock sits against the Anchor hole then abuse away. Don't mean it'll fail though does it?.......... and again this makes plenty of noise so again I'd have time to 'Go down for a little chat' as lambeth LS likes to describe this!
Its not the anchor that they would go for its the padlock on the ground, would not even look at touching the anchor, trust me there would be very little noise.
If that's the case then why mention in your first post about using the Anchor as an Anvil? Floor or Wall that can be done. Floor or Wall the Paddy can still be made to sit on the floor so makes no odds does it? Nothing can prevent a Bike going if properly tooled up, so again, makes no odds if a Pro team are in there. I detect a tinge of bitterness in your posts from one that may have recently had a Bike nicked?
Never said anything about the anchor as an anvil, and your detector is way off course bud dont know where you thought that one up from.... no probs you carry on
This is what you wrote Kentblade ? Don't want to get in to an argument with ya, just responding (constructively I thought) to what you said? Lets leave it there shall we and let the OP makes his own mind up.
Just seen this on the Insurance thread? So you have had a Bike nicked even though just above you said my 'Detector' was way out as well as saying you didn't mention Anvils? Hmmmm!
Thanks very much for doing this. Over and above! So no way at all its going through the swingarm? Not even between the swingarm and tyre? I don't think I would be happy with locking it up like you have, I live in a dodgy area! Thanks again
No mate, not a chance! The older Blades had bigger 'holes' in their swingarm design but the latest models are beefed up to quite a degree and hence the 'hole' size is much reduced. You also have to bear in mind the 19mm chain is not very flexible so even if it just fitted through the swingarm aperture you'd not have enough articulation in the chain and cover to manipulate it past the chain and guard. It doesn't exactly slide through the front wheel without being fed carefully. Trust me if the local thieves are professional then ya Bikes gone wherever the chain is threaded! Your best bet is to make sure the bike is not on display EVER in the first place and that as soon as you get home it's squirreled away immediately!
As you say Sinewave they want it that bad it will go. Trick is when you get home get it away outta sight. I think some insurance companies frown upon leaving the bike outside yer house if you state you use your garage. Then there's other bollocks like checking behind to see if yer being followed. Where do you draw the line?
TBH, when I had my last Blade I always made sure I had a quick blast for the last mile or so before I got home to make sure no fecker was following me to see where ma baby lived. It might seem anal to some but what ya got to loose, and you've certainly got a lot to gain! I try an avoid even having the Garage door open unless the car or van is in front of it, just in case the Pikeys etc just happen to be driving past and look up the drive and think, eye eye! ...........................we'll be back for that fecker laterz!
