Does parking between cars protect a motorcycle?

It cuts both ways, and riders should be honest about that. Tucking a bike between two cars does help against one specific threat: the drive-by scout. A motorcycle that can't be seen from the road doesn't get spotted, marked, and revisited. Out of sight genuinely is out of mind for opportunists cruising for targets.

But the same concealment works for the thief. Two cars form a privacy screen: someone crouched over your disc lock with tools is invisible to pedestrians and cameras that would have seen them in an open bay. Cars also come and go all night — your screen at 10 p.m. may be an empty, exposed corner by 2 a.m., or worse, a van may park next to you.

So use the trick selectively:

• Good: daytime errands in busy lots, where hiding from passing scouts matters more than worst-case privacy.
• Bad: overnight street parking — prefer a lit, visible, camera-covered spot with something solid to chain to.
• Either way: the location trick is never the security. Disc lock or chain, cover, and a hidden GPS tracker with motion alerts do the actual protecting.

Think of parking position as seasoning, not the meal — it adjusts your odds, while the locks and tracker decide the outcome.

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