Bikes at home and security
Discussion
Following a carp weekend when a couple of friends had bikes stolen, including a nice carbon mountain bike secured with a ground anchor so my own stable feels in need of additional door bolts.
What suggestions does everyone have, pictures of your current set up only if you feel very secure.
War stories as recommendations would be good to know what has been withstood in your experience.
Currently i have an integral garage and bikes bolted to the walls, which feels the house gives some security with the noise inside the house.
However I am looking to move house shortly and looking to put the car into the garage, so if I am getting a metal shed for the bikes are these any good?
What are the other options?
What suggestions does everyone have, pictures of your current set up only if you feel very secure.
War stories as recommendations would be good to know what has been withstood in your experience.
Currently i have an integral garage and bikes bolted to the walls, which feels the house gives some security with the noise inside the house.
However I am looking to move house shortly and looking to put the car into the garage, so if I am getting a metal shed for the bikes are these any good?
What are the other options?
We have a garden room - a wooden room built at the end of the garden which doubles as a gym and media room.
The bikes are in it, behind sliding doors, hung on wall hooks.
The garden room is fully alarmed.
The bikes (eight, when they are all in there) are chained together. We have roughly 6 metres of chain running through the frames. This is Abus 14KS hardened chain, with padlocks to match. THe place I bought the chain from had to cut one once. It took two grinding wheels to get through it. So realistically the thieves either work out how they carry eight bikes at the same time chained together, or they try somewhere else.
This lot wasn't cheap, but the total value of the bikes is >>10x that of the chain and locks.
Bottom line: chaining them together with a chain that can't be cut easily should send the b
ds off to an easier target.
The bikes are in it, behind sliding doors, hung on wall hooks.
The garden room is fully alarmed.
The bikes (eight, when they are all in there) are chained together. We have roughly 6 metres of chain running through the frames. This is Abus 14KS hardened chain, with padlocks to match. THe place I bought the chain from had to cut one once. It took two grinding wheels to get through it. So realistically the thieves either work out how they carry eight bikes at the same time chained together, or they try somewhere else.
This lot wasn't cheap, but the total value of the bikes is >>10x that of the chain and locks.
Bottom line: chaining them together with a chain that can't be cut easily should send the b
ds off to an easier target. Best bike in 3rd bedroom...
Other 4 bikes (£3k ish in total) in brick built outbuilding. They are chained with a fairly chunky (Oxford HD?) chain to a wall anchor (also Oxford I think).
I'm pretty sure someone with the right tools would get through it, but it was the level of security I needed according to the insurance company.
I also think next doors dogs may have highlighted the fact they were there before they had finished.
Other 4 bikes (£3k ish in total) in brick built outbuilding. They are chained with a fairly chunky (Oxford HD?) chain to a wall anchor (also Oxford I think).
I'm pretty sure someone with the right tools would get through it, but it was the level of security I needed according to the insurance company.
I also think next doors dogs may have highlighted the fact they were there before they had finished.
Five bikes on wall hangers, my bedroom right above them, PIR sensor alarm. I have an option to use a masonry-mounted loop with a chain/lock, but where I live is pretty safe so I've never bothered. The thieves would also have to navigate the rest of the junk in my amazingly messy garage. Good luck with that.
Posts like this give me the fear though so I might look into getting something if I ever buy a decent bike (total replacement cost for all five is less than £2,000).
Posts like this give me the fear though so I might look into getting something if I ever buy a decent bike (total replacement cost for all five is less than £2,000).
I leave my 2 best bikes in my conservatory (not bike in pic) with those two,they look cute but unless you were brave, the terrier loves being on guard 24-7 and the collie would bite your arm off if he thought you were scared or tried to run away (we learnt that the hard way) ! Either way they are deafening when someone uses the front door, let along unannounced at the back!
Its hard work, generally if I cant afford to easily replace it I keep it in the house , my other bikes are in the garage
Jimboka said:
So only those in not very nice areas get their bikes pinched? Funny
Not at all. Just saying I'm fortunate to live in such a low crime area therefore the need for higher security isn't there. One of the reasons I moved back here. Even left my keys in the ignition, phone and wallet on the passenger seat of my car many years ago. Still all there the next morning.i've said it once, but i'll say it again.....
remove the front wheel from the bike and store the wheel somewhere else in the house. this is only really practical if you just ride at weekends. if you ride every day e.g. to work it is not really viable. either way the same rule applies: bikes are so much harder to steal when you can't easily ride them away...
remove the front wheel from the bike and store the wheel somewhere else in the house. this is only really practical if you just ride at weekends. if you ride every day e.g. to work it is not really viable. either way the same rule applies: bikes are so much harder to steal when you can't easily ride them away...
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