My first entry on the forum. Have been watching for a few weeks with interest until this bike pusher thread came up. Here's the thing. My lovely special edition colours 50th anniversary Transalp WAS pushed over a couple of months ago. I came out on I think a Sat morning and a neighbour said my bike was over. I live on LL and park the bike round the corner on Heber rd, have done for 10 yrs. As I was swearing very loudly (it seemed obvious it was kicked over) a nice new couple that have just moved in on Heber said they had heard it go over, looked out of their bedroom window and seen a bunch of kids running off!! The fairing was totally smashed both sides, bars bent, tank dented, side panels cracked. Where's the fun in that? I was too peed off to ask why they hadn't called the police that night...I understand it is a hassle but to stop this sort of thing people need to do the right thing. If the police are alerted that night they can go round and maybe pick them up, at least be aware and maybe stop who knows what else going on that night. It is often a small group with a couple of ringleaders doing stuff in spatts..( not the shoes ). Last year we all had our wing mirrors kicked off on Friday nights. Cost me ?90.00. Then one night I heard a smash looked out to see a car outside with the mirror smashed and a bloke trying to wrench off the one on the next car. His mate was on the other side of the road laughing. I shouted at him, his mate ran over and grabbed the culprit and they legged it off up Townley rd. I was going to go after them, I could have delt with them but thought I don't need the hassle so called the police. I didn't need their hassle either but 2 mins later I'm in a jam sandwich driving too fast up the road to catch them. Not little herberts but tanked up college boys. Half an hour of dictating to a copper who could hardly write was a bore but at least they won't be doing that round here in a hurry, and a night in nick sobering up might help them see the error of their ways. Back to the bike, the side that was uppermost was pushed in against the now broken screws. Went to Camberwell nick to have it dusted and sure enough the very nice forensics woman found a trainer print on that side, unfortunately not enough of one but she agreed someone had put their foot on it to push it over, it's a heavy bike and I don't park it stupidly. So it it is going on deliberately me thinks. P.S. the sad thing is I was lying in bed and heard a noise at 1.30 which sounded like a plastic wheel rim being run over on LL. But oh no, that was my bike going over 'cause the neighbours who looked out said it was 1.30!! AARRGHHHH!!
