"In those years a Harley was out of the question because they were stolen so much, mostly by bikers, to be shipped overseas in later years. The worst of it was towards the very end where one MO was to run into the Harley stopped at a light from behind with a truck or van, and then load up the bike into the truck or van. The advice was if ya rode it to work always take a different way home, and have an eyelet set into the slab of the garage to lock it to. As for leaving it outside at the mall or parked at work or in an apartment parking lot day after day/night after night forget it. All of the above weren't very practical if your bike was your only transportation."
If the above was commonplace enough to actually worry about, I'm damn glad I didn't grow up anywhere near you! Just where in the USA was this $hithole location? Never heard of such a thing in my home town.
Jeff
In this case, Birdy's right... Back in the day one was very careful where the bike was parked and/or where you left it for any time.. Always in a locked garage and/or chained to a telephone pole.. But mostly that was in/near the 'big city' and especially out west and south.. But it occurred in the Murderapolis region quite often too..
There were so many bike thefts going on around here back in the day, I had 2 chains on it and a lock on the front forks. Got complacent a few years back and stopped chaining it. Some ass.holes tried to steal it out of my garage a couple years ago. Got it backed out to the street, but couldn't get it started, so dumped it in my swale. Got the first non road rash it's ever had when they dumped it. Glad I didn't catch em. Kept a .357 under my guest pillow with Buffalo Bore cast in it along that time. Switched to .45 now. The calmer, gentler, mature me.
Last edited by local_dirt; 07/23/17.
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