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Same issue with motorcycles and people just buy insurance, which you can do with bikes too.


I can pick up a bicycle and walk away with very little effort. They're usually less than 20lbs.

My motorcycle is 500lbs wet. Close to 700 with full cases.

Are you really suggesting it's just as easy stealing a 500-700lb bike as a 20lb bike?


For most bikes and mopeds two guys and a truck is all you need to steal it. If you can lean it up after laying it out, theres probably a way for someone to leverage it onto a truck bed. Maybe just knocking it over onto a furniture dolly and pushing it up a ramp.


That all sounds like a good bit more work than a single person with a bolt cutter.

So you do agree with me, that it's a lot more work stealing a motorcycle than stealing a bicycle?




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