http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Couple ‘followed home from Glentress by thieves who took bikes’ " en Mon, 18 May 2026 06:24:40 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230355 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 21:04:46 +0000 unhurt 230355@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But do they have a tail port? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230351 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:55:23 +0000 acsimpson 230351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>iRats TM. Designed by apple to be as vicious as you require. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230345 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:52:53 +0000 unhurt 230345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I read a bit fast and thought at first that acsimpson was suggesting filling the pit under the trapdoor with IWRATS (multiple, hungry and vicious, I assumed). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230284 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:00:51 +0000 sallyhinch 230284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If last week's trip to Amsterdam was anything to go by the Dutch approach to bike security seems to be somewhat less elaborate: </p> <p>1. leave your bike outside your apartment building with a wheel lock<br /> 2. have exactly the same bike as everyone else<br /> 3. when your bike ends up in the canal, shrug and get a new one</p> <p>Video illustrates it here: <a href="https://twitter.com/crabbitcopy/status/774229776110383104" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/crabbitcopy/status/774229776110383104</a></p> <p>I noticed that even the more upmarket touring bikes of the Dutch folk we met on the ferry still had wheel locks. One guy asked me how the British locked their bikes, as we had no visible locks on the wheels - he seemed to think we just didn't lock them at all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230281 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:25:48 +0000 wingpig 230281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To get bikes into and out of my shed requires a great deal of practice to tilt them in just the right way to get them through the opening without the handlebars or saddle catching on the jamb or being caught by the handlebars or brake levers of something else (thanks to the shed-builders not understanding millimetres and reducing the door height by a couple of inches), so anyone trying to steal them would probably wake everybody up with their frustrated swearing and rattling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230278 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:44:35 +0000 acsimpson 230278@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>You really only need to:<br /> 1. Make your shed/garage more secure than your neighbour's.<br /> or<br /> 2. Make your bike less desirable than your neighbour's.</em></p> <p>Of course if you like your neighbours too much to do this you can simply leave a high value mountain bike at the back of a lightly secured shed and then replace the floor with a trap door leading to a pit with some of IWRATS roosting ravens (and snakes for good measure).</p> <p>I would do this but I need to store the cement for my nightly wheel concreting in the shed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838&page=2#post-230273 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:57:24 +0000 nobrakes 230273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bike version of one of these is all you need.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.beforward.jp/car-review/remember-bmw-blaster-south-africas-flamethrowing-car.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.beforward.jp/car-review/remember-bmw-blaster-south-africas-flamethrowing-car.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230255 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:24:44 +0000 paddyirish 230255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@amir's post yesterday</p> <p>Lets hope the theives don't have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230252 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:05:02 +0000 amir 230252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good to see helmets being worn there ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230248 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:46:59 +0000 steveo 230248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have mine delivered by transporter but I sometimes get funny looks when I leave the office...<br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNpZG4xxgA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNpZG4xxgA</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230244 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:35:36 +0000 Min 230244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>*spits coffee over keyboard*</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230243 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:20:04 +0000 jdanielp 230243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I take my bike to Edinburgh Airport after each trip and load it into my autonomous solar powered aircraft which then flies continuously until I next request it, at which point it is quite literally dropped off using low-level extraction techniques. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230239 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:40:14 +0000 cc 230239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I take my bicycle to bed with me. It's the only way to be sure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230223 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:33:25 +0000 amir 230223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I also have the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230211 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:42:31 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat</p> <p>That missing fan blade hangs over our fireplace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230204 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:24:13 +0000 Arellcat 230204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I heard* that there is a lot of bike theft in Dutchland and to some extent mass circulation of bikes, stolen and re-stolen.</p> <p>* on the Internet, therefore etc.</p> <p>My bikes live in an underground hardened bunker with a blast door. The only way to steal my bikes would be by climbing up and down a suspiciously convenient but terrifyingly tall and narrow ventilation shaft that has flames going through it at regular intervals and a big fan with a blade missing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230203 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:15:42 +0000 le_soigneur 230203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS I didn't say "Do 1 AND 2".</p> <p>My pub bike got stolen twice. I got it back twice. Something to do with the Brooks saddle having a ridge narrower than your average razor blade :)</p> <p>Once somebody has to get a grinder or tow-vehicle to get into your shed/garage, they are seriously drawing attention to themselves.</p> <p>If cycling gets to dutch utilitarian levels here, the hope is that nobody steals bikes anymore. The dutch certainly don't bother with locks etc. Mobile phones are now so commonplace, they don't get stolen much, but they were once the main reason for muggings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230200 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:43:34 +0000 Dave 230200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How did you know where we live? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230199 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:41:26 +0000 Min 230199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lol, too true!</p> <p>I have a squadron of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi">Chinese Vampires</a> available for hire for a reasonable fee. They are not actually that great for security but they look way cool. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230198 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:30:36 +0000 steveo 230198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>This can only lead to us living in fortified coumpounds containing nothing but Halfords Apollo 'mountain' bikes with flat tyres and missing brake noodles.</em></p> <p>Sounds like the subsistence of many a British bicycle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230196 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:23:14 +0000 Roibeard 230196@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've some coach bolts that can be used to replace screws on the hinges of shed doors.</p> <p>Folk here can have some for free, as long as they don't plan to install them on any sheds near mine...</p> <p>Robert<br /> &lt;and so it begins&gt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230193 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:16:38 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@le_soigneur</p> <p>This can only lead to us living in fortified coumpounds containing nothing but Halfords Apollo 'mountain' bikes with flat tyres and missing brake noodles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230191 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:02:13 +0000 le_soigneur 230191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You really only need to:<br /> 1. Make your shed/garage more secure than your neighbour's.<br /> or<br /> 2. Make your bike less desirable than your neighbour's.<br /> then<br /> 3. Keep ahead of your neighbours on 1. &amp; 2. each time they upgrade after being broken into. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230190 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:49:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have no bike security at home at all. Other than a single raven perched where a CCTV camera might otherwise be expected. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230188 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:42:57 +0000 dessert rat 230188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>the only way to be sure is to disassemble the bike each evening into its component parts, then hide them throughout the house (different locations each evening obviously). </p> <p>Yes mornings can be difficult, but what price peace of mind ? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230187 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:40:26 +0000 Min 230187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I skip the ground anchors and just set the wheels of my bike into the concrete each night. The jackhammer might wake up the neighbours when I leave in the morning but at least the bikes are secure.</em></p> <p>I'm afraid you are going to have to entomb the entire bike otherwise they can just remove it from the wheels. And then you'll look silly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230185 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:26:41 +0000 le_soigneur 230185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enfield-Garage-Door-Locks-Bolts-R-H-Or-L-H-Singles-High-Security-NEW-2016-MK5-/221169254493?var=&amp;hash=item337eb7005d:m:m57HVIz9XQjVfYlSPkygvXg">Enfield garage lock</a> is secure &amp; discrete, if you just install a single one. Otherwise it is very easy to screwdriver the cam of garage T-handle locks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230183 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:10:42 +0000 acsimpson 230183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I skip the ground anchors and just set the wheels of my bike into the concrete each night. The jackhammer might wake up the neighbours when I leave in the morning but at least the bikes are secure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230182 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:53:55 +0000 Roibeard 230182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclingmollie - I think you'll find most of CCE deploy hungry attack tigers, and particularly so when on holiday.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16838#post-230181 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:21:53 +0000 Cyclingmollie 230181@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"I use ground anchors in the concrete floor"</em></p> <p>Once you're over the 18' razor wire fence and through the mine-field, my steel re-inforced concrete shed lies behind a lazer activated mini-gun kill-zone. I mean you don't know who could be reading this. </p>