• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Anti-Theft Devises

i wrap it around my sproket, xn14 should fit up to 7mm disc with look at their stuff as they have diffeent pin thicknesses an jaw depths.
 
firecrotch said:
Ever read through this?
http://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/t5shp/ex_thief_chopshop_operator_ama/
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Finally got a chance to read what I believe was all of the comments (formatting is a bit confusing).

Any ideas what he meant by this? What advantage would the thief have with the title? Obviously they would then know where the owner lives... but for doing things like obtaining chip matched ECUs?
Also - LOCK YOUR F***ing STEERING - DON'T LEAVE YOUR SPARE KEY IN YOUR TRUNK. I can open your trunk with a butter knife, don't leave me your f***ing key in there, jesus. Happens more often than you think. Also, don't leave your TITLE in the trunk, i've seen this too often too.
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Coffee said:
Finally got a chance to read what I believe was all of the comments (formatting is a bit confusing).

Any ideas what he meant by this? What advantage would the thief have with the title? Obviously they would then know where the owner lives... but for doing things like obtaining chip matched ECUs?
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if you have the title, you pretty much own the bike. it becomes a his word against mine that the owner didn't sell it to the thief.
 
I used to remove the main fuse from my FZR600 back in the day when our group would park at some large event.
 
chris1261 said:
if you have the title, you pretty much own the bike. it becomes a his word against mine that the owner didn't sell it to the thief.
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You mean he was referring to the 'pink slip'?

I thought he was referring to the registration..
 
I've never saw a vehicle title that allows transfer of ownership without the current owners signature ... This would be the same name that is on the front of the title ... With this in mind, if the real owner, whose name is on the front of the title does not release ownership with his signature, forgery must come into play. That would be a second charge against the thief ... And in most cases, a thief wants money, not the actual bike... So the stolen property is chopped.

Playing with names on GOV paperwork leaves a paper trail back to a specific person also ...

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That title is just a hard copy of the real data that is in a GOV data base ... Keep the bikes serial numbers and those numbers can always be traced ...

Mike-AK said:
If you had the title, you could transfer registration?
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chris1261 said:
if you have the title, you pretty much own the bike. it becomes a his word against mine that the owner didn't sell it to the thief.
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Many places allow ownership without titles ... Possession goes a long way here I'd guess ...

EDIT: On the topic of titles and thieves ... I do remember a guy yrs ago who wanted any, any car that had a title.. He would take just the title also ... Not 100% what he did with that paper, but he did come back from 1 out of state trip (with titles in hand on this trip) with no front teeth and I never asked what happened to him or that paperwork ... This guy was pretty much a local hard-a$$ that took his business to the big city and left a couple teeth there ... He's been dead a long time now ...

So, I'm inclined to think that title paperwork is just a different level of thievery ..
 
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For those still on the hemet lock topic: Just bought this from my local motorcycle store. Does the trick. I just added a keyring to loop it around the seat lock pin. If the loops were bigger i wouldn't need the keyring but the larger ones they had were twice the price etc This one i can keep under the seat next to the battery ready for the day i need to lock my helmet to the packrack. For those in Australia website address is in the photo.
 
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