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I have to agree. Prevention is always better than cure.

Prevention is also travelling on a bike you can afford to lose. It's easier to walk away from a £1500 old Transalp than a £20,000 BMW. It's also far less desirable to thieves although potentially easier to steal.

I had to park my DRZ in Barcelona city centre. On the street. Whilst in the hostel around the corner overnight. I didn't sleep a wink with worry.

Simple things like a good lock and a cover will help A LOT. There are lots of locks that look chunky but are hollow and easy to carry.


I wouldn't dismiss a tracker just yet. If you're bike is stolen, it's likely that it will be in a busy town or city. And I think you're likely to have signal in these areas. I find it very unlikely for it to be stolen in the countryside or superbs unless you're being naive about security.
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Prevention is also travelling on a bike you can afford to lose. It's easier to walk away from a £1500 old Transalp than a £20,000 BMW.
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Only if you are in a country with no TIP or CDP.

The parking situation is always my main concern when I look for a room.
First question how much is the room to see if that place is for me at all, second question is where can I park the bike.
Then I go and have a look at both, first the parking, then the room.

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Only if you are in a country with no TIP or CDP.
Meh - if you present an official police report saying your bike has been stolen, that should be enough to get out of a TIP?

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Air tags are functioning pretty well where a lot people live in a relative small area as in congested and overcrowded areas. If you look to the statistics of iphone/ipad ownerships worldwide you recognize that these are mostly industrialized countries like US, UK, Japan and europe countries.

That you should have always in mind when you travel through south america and you are visiting small towns or area areas with low population mostly creating a low income from agriculture or similar.
In general, I would definitely agree. But I do remember seeing a surprising amount of (three-generations-old) used iPhones on sale in the middle of a village in rural North Vietnam... It might be a surprise how many iPhones might end up with refurbished batteries in rural areas of the global South. (Not that this makes an airtag a viable tracker there. But hey, the airtag costs thirty bucks, it's worth a shot.)
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I had to park my DRZ in Barcelona city centre. On the street. Whilst in the hostel around the corner overnight. I didn't sleep a wink with worry.
In a lot of major cities, there is an option that would provide reasonable security against thieves - but at the cost of biker karma... so use this advice sparingly if at all!

Look for secure paid parking. Shopping centers, office buildings, etc. - anything that costs money to park a car. Ride in, take your ticket. There are cameras, there are usually guards to look out for shady characters. When you are ready to leave... it's usually easy to ride around the exit boom without paying.

Yes, it absolutely IS an asshole move. But yes, I have absolutely done it. In the same way that I have absolutely walked into the door of a paid toilet when someone else is coming out, without putting my coin in the machine.

To decrease the hit to your and fellow bikers' karma a little bit... try to park in a corner, or between pillars, or generally anywhere that a car would not be able to fit. So you're not taking away the parking operator's revenue for a car's worth of space.
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