Security
An impressive amount of security on this Triumph Thruxton Café Racer. Front wheel, back wheel and front brake lever - plus parked well away from "the madding crowd", as it were....and lashed to a fence. And presumably a CCTV camera screwed to a nearby tree and powered by a generator...just in case. And a private security guard hiding in a bush, just in case the generator fails.
Given that there were many hundreds of motorcycles within 250 metres, some of which were absolutely priceless (y'know - Kevin Schwantz and Barry Sheene's 500cc Grand Prix race bikes plus a few Manx Nortons - that kind of thing), I'm just wondering why someone thought this fairly ordinary Thruxton might be a particular target for the light fingered fraternity.
It was also a "first" for me as the rear number plate contained a "copyright notice"!!! As British registration numbers are owned by the Secretary of State it would be interesting to know how interested The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP would be in dragging someone through the court system for taking a photo of this number plate. Not wishing to do anything of the kind, I swiftly moved to the side.
According to one newspaper report there are 26 million images a day taken on British roads of registration numbers, so someone is going to be very busy with all those copyright infringements. And don't forget all those pesky dashcams as well. The legal folk could have a field day now the PPI thing is coming to an end lol.
Absolutley bizarre.....
Security
An impressive amount of security on this Triumph Thruxton Café Racer. Front wheel, back wheel and front brake lever - plus parked well away from "the madding crowd", as it were....and lashed to a fence. And presumably a CCTV camera screwed to a nearby tree and powered by a generator...just in case. And a private security guard hiding in a bush, just in case the generator fails.
Given that there were many hundreds of motorcycles within 250 metres, some of which were absolutely priceless (y'know - Kevin Schwantz and Barry Sheene's 500cc Grand Prix race bikes plus a few Manx Nortons - that kind of thing), I'm just wondering why someone thought this fairly ordinary Thruxton might be a particular target for the light fingered fraternity.
It was also a "first" for me as the rear number plate contained a "copyright notice"!!! As British registration numbers are owned by the Secretary of State it would be interesting to know how interested The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP would be in dragging someone through the court system for taking a photo of this number plate. Not wishing to do anything of the kind, I swiftly moved to the side.
According to one newspaper report there are 26 million images a day taken on British roads of registration numbers, so someone is going to be very busy with all those copyright infringements. And don't forget all those pesky dashcams as well. The legal folk could have a field day now the PPI thing is coming to an end lol.
Absolutley bizarre.....