Yamaha Xmax 300. Insurance?

[Andym]

It makes you so angry.

I imagine they used the garage emulator to bypass the immobiliser . Item https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365520134845 ... media=COPY . Buy on temu for under a fiver.

Andy

[Andym]

A quick rummage on You Boob says you just unplug any ignition barrel that's fitted. Takes seconds if the loom is exposed.

Think I'd be filling any such plug with super glue. Better a mechanic hates me but I still have a bike.

Andy

[Rich_H9]

You are kidding me?!
Unbelievable.
I’ve been looking at locks on and off today and have already ordered an apple tracker.
I’m gutted for you. I only hope that something massively unpleasant and painful happens to the b4strds.

[Andym]

The new X-Max 500 looks better.

Keyless, so you'd hope the wiring is now nowhere near where the key barrel was. Also seems to have a solenoid that locks the centre stand. I'm betting this is made of the same Chineseium-toffee as the steering lock, but two big kicks take longer than one and hopefully it'll slide on the stand instead of rocking forward and letting them use the weight of the bike to snap it. Time will tell.

The balaclava scratters don't (yet) have the ability to clone keys, but I'd still turn off the fob and keep it in a Faraday case. Keyless has the problem that the range is varies. Leave the bike at the end of your drive while you open the garage door and it's like the key is in. You need to turn the fob off before the scratter hops on and tries to start it.

Andy

[Rich_H9]

Mines a 2024 model. It’s still keyless though.

I’m considering an litelok X1 (£150) and a Hiplok x-chain (£65). There are surprisingly few photos of the lock on the wheels of scooters. Feels like a big miss to me with the number of bikes being stolen.

[John A]

Mines a 2024 model. It’s still keyless though.

I’m considering an litelok X1 (£150) and a Hiplok x-chain (£65). There are surprisingly few photos of the lock on the wheels of scooters. Feels like a big miss to me with the number of bikes being stolen.

I have the Litelok X1 on my 24 reg Tmax and it just fits on the front wheel going between the rim the the tyre's outer surface. Thankfully I don't live anywhere near London, or I'd be paranoid about the bile's security!

[Ministerofsillywalks]

First day with the bike at work: stolen. Two guys saunter along between the delivery drivers and staff and make off with the scoot. I've looked at the CCTV footage and they crank the steering lock, one helps push the bike up the road whereupon it magically starts (er, how!?). The one pushing mine leaps on and disappears, the other follows close behind on his scoot. Total time maybe 10 seconds.

Sounds like when my Maxsym 600i was stolen from my work in 2018. I watched them on CCTV later. Three of them on two scooters (no doubt stolen too). One smashed my admittedly cheap U-lock with a hammer securing it to a metal post. Then one sat on it while the two others rode either side each with one foot on mine pushing it. It was all over in around a minute. Then they obviously went somewhere quiet to get it going. The police found it badly damaged a week later. Oh, and I received a ticket for riding in a bus lane in the meantime.

Now, call me paranoid if you like, but I never turn my back on it without a cable lock on one wheel and a disc lock on the other. At home I have the front wheel secured to metal railings with two chains and padlocks and a cable lock and a disc lock on the back wheel.

[poo]

Sounds like when my Maxsym 600i was stolen from my work in 2018. I watched them on CCTV later. Three of them on two scooters (no doubt stolen too). One smashed my admittedly cheap U-lock with a hammer securing it to a metal post. Then one sat on it while the two others rode either side each with one foot on mine pushing it. It was all over in around a minute. Then they obviously went somewhere quiet to get it going. The police found it badly damaged a week later. Oh, and I received a ticket for riding in a bus lane in the meantime.

Much the same. One gets on mine, the other holds the wheel, and together they snap the lock. Looking at my CCTV footage they spend more time wrestling with the centre stand - am not kidding - than with the lock. Once bike has both tyres on the ground, it is wheeled from where it was stood, right by the entrance to the building, a really very short way up the road whereupon - and this is the biggest mystery of all - it starts and they both ride off. It's not keyless and I still have both keys, something the insurance company wanted me to confirm.

Take it yours was written off? Have never made a claim on any vehicle and am a bit lost as to how I replace it while everything seems to be in limbo. Don't know how to get coverage on a replacement when I don't know the full details how my present policy will pay out.

Like you I fully intend being more paranoid. I am pleased it happened at work where, should things have taken a turn for the worse, I'd have had assistance and a 20 minute lift home. I can only imagine the pain of this happening had I ridden into town, or the scumbags had heaved me off it in a quiet car park somewhere. Not fun.

Sorry to hijack the thread

[poo]

You are kidding me?!
Unbelievable.
I’ve been looking at locks on and off today and have already ordered an apple tracker.
I’m gutted for you. I only hope that something massively unpleasant and painful happens to the b4strds.

Thanks Rich. First thing I thought was, if only I'd put an AirTag under the carpet of the storage area.

Definitely worth doing.

[Ministerofsillywalks]

Yes it was written off. This is the way I wanted it, as I didn't know what else they had done to it. Like thrashed it and a couple of weeks later it seizes. The ticket for riding in a bus lane was really rubbing salt into the wound though. I did of course report it as stolen so it was dropped.