I’m sitting here, this afternoon, feeling quite conflicted about the Ducs. On one hand I want to rush right out and find another one and yet on the other hand, I keep thinking that bringing another beauty home is like handing someone in prison a get out of jail free card only to see them go back in the pen. I keep imagining two brand new and wonderous bikes sitting in the garage for a few weeks before someone, perhaps the same folks, coming along and boosting them again. The thought just makes me cringe.

I guess I always knew that Ducs were ‘hot’, but it just didn’t register in my mind that this ment they were targets of theft. And it scares me to think that in all honesty, no matter what procautions you take this can happen again, and again, and again with little you can do about it. Unfortunatley I live in a part of the world where house prices are so insane that there is no plausable way to afford a house with a more secure single tenet garage, thus for the immediate future I’m stuck in larger venues which seem more open to this sort of problem. Hence the worry that no matter what chain I find or what lock or what sort of enclosed space there just isn’t much that can be done to avoid or stop someone who has both the knowledge and the desire to take a motorcycle.

Now a few folks on the Ducati.ms board have suggested that MotorMilt & I rent a secure public storage space because they supposedly have security and you need a code to get both in and out of them. At first this seemed like a sensable idea, but the more I’ve rolled it over, the more I find the idea flawed - granted, less on logical grounds, than emotional ones - but storing the new Ducs at a public storage facility makes me feel like I’ve lost, as if it’s some sort of admitance that the crooks, whomever they might be, have beaten me and other good, honest, trustworthy citizens to such ends as to make them store their most cherished possessions five or ten minutes away from them. And what sort of world is that? Do I then spend my time constantly looking over my shoulder everytime I head in or out of the storage area? And I wonder, at what point does security become so hardcore that it makes just using the bikes feel less fun and more like a hassle? And what sort of world is that? Certainly not one that I want to be a part of… Frankly, I don’t know if much of this makes sense and in all honesty this has most definately been an eye opening experience and one that I don’t wish on anyone else who rides.