Hi Snowman, Yeah, same here. I got 20 feet down the road before the engine stopped. On closer inspection, it seemed they pull out the pipe underneath by the exhaust, and drain it from there, so there's not even a need from them to break into the seat lock. Can park in from garden, would that make a difference d'think ? If this person/s isn't caught, this could go on forever - how depressing ! There's loads of Vespa riders in ED, we should start a Bike-Watch ! Can extend to push bikes (some mo-fo nicked that too !). Hmm another Link pre-haps .. BQC