Help......bloody Rats :-(

Hello lovely people

As the title says you can guess. My bike sits in an underground car park fully covered. But today when I took the cover off to fit my GB racing covers, to my horror the bike was dirty with rat droppings on the fairing. The damn things have chewed off my GPS wire rubber cover and bit off bit of the Oxford heated grips

I am fuming here....its either the low life thieving sums or the rats . I am fighting a loosing battle

Can someone please kindly advise if there is something I can use to keep these rats off my bike

Tomorrow I'm going to remove the tank and check the rest of the wiring .under the seat seems all good. Fired the bike and took her around the block and all seems good.

But I really need to put a stop to these rats.

Thanking you all kindly

Kind regards
H

 

Apparently they don’t like the smell of mint

 

When we bought our strimmer we were warned that mice and rats were known to eat the wires and someone had all the wiring eaten from under their camper van , I've got no answer thought

 

Halftone rat zapper sounds like a good plan. Just need to make sure I don't electrocute myself

I had a look and they are about 20 quid. Might do the trick. Also it kills it humanely as possible. I just don't want those rodents having a painful one. Just a quick and easy one.

 

I'd really prefer something that would keep them off bay than to kill it

 

DD

Boots

Do you mean the boots store or my steel cap boots to kick em to death

 

^^^ figured

 

Firstly it looks much more like mouse damage than rats. Secondly. You will have the devils own job denying them access.
So.......a wee box with 3cm holes either end left under the bike and cover and topped up periodically with poisoned bait will knock out your local foragers. £4 odd from your local Tesco. The box is to protect pets. You will not necessarily see dead mice but they share the information and usually peg out in their burrows.
The wee b******s made a similar mess of my Subaru engine bay but I was avenged!

 

Well if it’s mouses you could try this, and if it rats just get a bottle with a bigger opening.

 

The smell of Pussy

 

^^^ OK I have established that these are mouse issues I'm having

Now time to tackle these buggers

 

So it goes to prove mice are smarter than rats, no fingerprints to link them to the crime scene

 

Absolutely Crispey

But I don't need evidence to persecute them. They are guilty for going near my bike so they are going to be executed

 

Mice are repelled by the smell of mint. Some people swear that mice are also repelled by the smell of mothballs. Likewise cat's piss - ammonia mimics the odour of urine.

 

This morning I personally went and saw the service company director and showed him the pictures. He is going to deal with it. But nit sure how long before they get their act together because of all the bureaucracy

 

I am looking into the peppermint spray. Just trying to assess whatever I use is ok for electrics.

Friend of mine has some form of gel you can apply on the wires that are poisonous to rodents

 

A wee story of no practical help but gives an indication of habitual rodent behaviour.......
My late father was a vet. Ministry of Agriculture from pre DEFRA days when the countryside was a food factory not a playground for townies on motorbikes .......
Anyway, he knew all the county’s farmers and their common woes. One chap with a mixed arable and cattle operation had had a real problem with rodents in his grain storage. All the usual methods of trapping, poisoning etc., had barely made a dent in the population. So when he told my Dad there had been a miraculous collapse in the rodent population it was because he sought some possible veterinary answer. Dad could not come up with anything credible but said ‘keep me posted’.
On his next visit the truth was unveiled. As I said, a mixed farm. They had mucked out a small byre used for calving cattle; a routine enough occurrence. However, on this occasion the water butt had not been returned to its usual place but rather left in the corner. Within days there was an overpowering stink and its origin was sought. It was the water butt. When decanted it contained the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of rats and mice. The butt had unknowingly been parked under the rodent M1 where rush hour traffic poured out after dark down the ancestral route. There was a worn ledge and access route from which they jumped down en route to the grain silos......virtually the entire population had drowned in the space of 48hrs using the same route.
Worth a Face Palm?!

 

Before you start your bike, open up the air box, mice love motorcycle air box nests. You don't want your enigine to injest a mouse or its bedding. Where's that squeak coming from?