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"Couple ‘followed home from Glentress by thieves who took bikes’ "
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Same thing happened to someone in Stow a couple of weeks ago. Was warned by a friend that there are gangs patrolling the Borders and particularly following people home from Glentress then nicking their bikes.
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got to say that shed doesn't look particularly secure, esp for 11K worth of bikes.
When 'down south' I had to my store bikes in a wooden shed - it had more lights than Blackpool and I'd up-armoured it significantly - resisted two attempts.
The thieving toerags are everywhere. If they really want your bike they're going to take it, but security starts at home.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I store my bikes in a garage but even so I use ground anchors in the concrete floor.
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Our garage isn't as secure as it should be, although I personally would struggle to break in, I think the right (wrong?) people would manage. Upgrading that is high on the list!
Posted 8 years ago # -
The headline should be; 'Shed broken into in Southside' Not quite so dramatic though.
The ideal security system is a society with high levels of education and equality and open, medically supported access to opiates for those that need them.
Posted 8 years ago # -
.or maybe cut their goolies off....
;-)
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"I use ground anchors in the concrete floor"
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
@Cyclingmollie - I think you'll find most of CCE deploy hungry attack tigers, and particularly so when on holiday.
Robert
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
The Enfield garage lock is secure & discrete, if you just install a single one. Otherwise it is very easy to screwdriver the cam of garage T-handle locks.
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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.
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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).
Yes mornings can be difficult, but what price peace of mind ?
Posted 8 years ago # -
I have no bike security at home at all. Other than a single raven perched where a CCTV camera might otherwise be expected.
Posted 8 years ago # -
You really only need to:
1. Make your shed/garage more secure than your neighbour's.
or
2. Make your bike less desirable than your neighbour's.
then
3. Keep ahead of your neighbours on 1. & 2. each time they upgrade after being broken into.Posted 8 years ago # -
@le_soigneur
This can only lead to us living in fortified coumpounds containing nothing but Halfords Apollo 'mountain' bikes with flat tyres and missing brake noodles.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I've some coach bolts that can be used to replace screws on the hinges of shed doors.
Folk here can have some for free, as long as they don't plan to install them on any sheds near mine...
Robert
<and so it begins>Posted 8 years ago # -
This can only lead to us living in fortified coumpounds containing nothing but Halfords Apollo 'mountain' bikes with flat tyres and missing brake noodles.
Sounds like the subsistence of many a British bicycle.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Lol, too true!
I have a squadron of Chinese Vampires available for hire for a reasonable fee. They are not actually that great for security but they look way cool.
Posted 8 years ago # -
How did you know where we live?
Posted 8 years ago # -
@IWRATS I didn't say "Do 1 AND 2".
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 :)
Once somebody has to get a grinder or tow-vehicle to get into your shed/garage, they are seriously drawing attention to themselves.
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.
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I heard* that there is a lot of bike theft in Dutchland and to some extent mass circulation of bikes, stolen and re-stolen.
* on the Internet, therefore etc.
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
@Arellcat
That missing fan blade hangs over our fireplace.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I also have the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
Posted 8 years ago # -
I take my bicycle to bed with me. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
*spits coffee over keyboard*
Posted 8 years ago # -
I have mine delivered by transporter but I sometimes get funny looks when I leave the office...
Posted 8 years ago # -
Good to see helmets being worn there ;)
Posted 8 years ago # -
@amir's post yesterday
Lets hope the theives don't have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch...
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