MOTORCYCLE theft is, unfortunately, part of life on two wheels. Sure, you can mitigate the chances by being careful and loading your motorcycle with security devices, but at the end of the day a motorcycle is something expensive and just about small enough to be portable that you will have to leave unattended at some stage. If somebody really, really wants to steal it, they probably will.
So, where are thieves most likely to strike? As it turns out, Swinton Bikes insurance worked out the figures just last year and came up with a top ten list of the places where the greatest percentage of people asking for quotes had suffered from a theft in the past. That should mean that these aren’t just places where there are a lot of bikes, so a lot of stolen bikes, but actually narrow it down to the percentage of riders who have suffered a theft.
The research also showed that Scotland had less bike theft than the rest of the UK.