Are garage door openers a weak point for motorcycle security?

They can be. Garage door openers are a genuinely overlooked weak point in motorcycle security, for three reasons:

• Old fixed-code remotes can be copied. Openers from decades past broadcast the same code every time, which cheap devices can capture and replay. Modern rolling-code openers change the code with every press and are far harder to attack.
• Remotes get stolen from cars. A thief who breaks into a car parked in your driveway often finds a garage remote clipped to the visor — plus your address on the registration. That's an invitation.
• The emergency release can be fished. With a wire through the top gap of the door, someone can pull the release cord and open the door by hand in seconds.

The fixes are cheap: upgrade to a rolling-code opener if yours is ancient, take the remote inside at night, zip-tie or shield the release latch so it still works from inside but can't be hooked from outside, and chain the bike to an anchor so the garage isn't your only line of defense.

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