What do you keep your bike in?

[alan0259]

Mine is currently at the other halfs parents in a solid garage on a detached house. I have just bought my first house and it has a side entrance to a decent sized garden.

It's a nice area but I don't trust anybody, it currently has a weak wooden shed but I don't know what to replace it with...

Would you...

Build a brick shed?
Buy a stronger wooden shed?
Reinforce the existing shed?

Really not sure what to do, don't want to spend an absolute fortune either.

Cheers

[Moo.]

I'd do the man think and try to DIY it myself, reinforce the current one, find random planks and nail them onto it, probably try and extend the shed.. Decorate with engine parts and tools, then do a mr bean and put multiple locks on the door. Stick a ground anchor inside it somewhere, concrete it in and chain it to the bike
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[G]

I would consider making a metal framed wooded shed, then chuck in a wireless alarm system.

[pinkyfloyd]

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[jimspeed]

mine lives in one of these https://www.taylorsgardenbuildings.co.uk/store/customer/product.php?productid=16568. not that exact one but a cheaper 10x10 one
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[motobiker]

I don't have a shed.. what I do is bring the bike round to the back of the house and park it up on the patio. anyone looking over the gate won't be able to see it. There are no clues that its there. I never EVER leave it out front of the house or on the driveway. When I'm coming home I keep my eyes on my mirrors to watch for anyone following.. If I thought someone was... then I would simply ride round the block.

In my view.. half the battle in keeping your pride and joy safe is: keeping it 'secret - out of sight' and having a healthy paranoia.
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[Asharin]

My bike sits in the back garden on the patio. behind a locked gate with 6ft fencing all round..works for me!

[Clanger]

Whenever I rent a new place, the first thing I look for is decent storage for my bike. It comes first, and that's that.
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[slyrob]

just a small bit of advice, some of the posters in this thread have rather sensibly answered the OP's question, others have detailed their own security arrangements. This, coupled with the location map in your profile and any previous posts where you may have mentioned where you live and or posted photos etc would help out anyone looking for a bike to nick in your area. I'm not suggesting this will happen but worth bearing in mind. Since the last two bikes I whored on here got stolen in the space of a month I may have got a little overly paranoid!
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[jimspeed]

good point that, but I have 2 very noisy dogs too and the cars are always blocking the pathway to the shed too.. anyway my bike is a £500 banger so I doubt its the kind of thing anyone other than joy riders would take a second look at
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[ajbsmirnoff]

I keep mine in constant fear that an easily distracted overweight old man/born again biker will ride it.

[ZRX61]

1000sq ft garage
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[The View Askew]

I am lucky in this respect, I can ride to a gate at the side of the rear of my premises and continue directly inside the back garden, and park the bike under it's cover parallel with my bathroom wall completely out of sight from anyone not in my back garden, it has PIR floodlights surrounding it in trees ect.

We have had people audibly in the back garden, but when the lights come on all over the place they have always left immediately, the side fence has been crushed down at the top due to people climbing hurriedly though.
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[willis1337]

Patch up existing shed, live in that, put your bike in the house

[willis1337]

Seriously though, I envy your side entrance . I live in a terraced house and would love the ability to put the bike in the back garden / shed. Personally I would build a brick shed / workshop and gradually kit it out with bike lift tools etc when funds allow.

[eddclarke]

A nice concrete garage with a ground anchor. If they get passed that there they can deal with Willow, my German Sheppherd
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[blurredman]

If you make a shed. It might be best to not have the entrance visible from the road. Just incase any one sees it on their way to their grove.
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[Barry_M2]

My bikes sit in a couple of small brick sheds in the back garden. I do have a garage on the side of the house but the doors on it are crap and wouldn't take much to get through them.

Our garden is surrounded by the neighbours garden (all the way round), so no one can look over. Only way in is the side gate, which has a couple of locks on it and neither of the bikes fit through without removing mirrors!
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[ms51ves3]

[G]

Yea, not sure how you could manage with something quite that small .

[Andy J]

my bikes in the garage.. locked with ground anchor, almax chain, squire lock, and xena disc lock alarm and im still paranoid.

How big, and 'weak' is the shed?

[dextersaurus]

Hmm... mine's in the front garden with a little blue LED from the alarm flashing away, and a healthy disk lock while my shed's being rebuilt... since it collapsed...

Dunc

[Andy J]

[dextersaurus]

Only risk is the gyppos coming for scrap metal and taking it on a spur of the moment thing. They took the GPZ's old exhaust, as i watched out the window last week. chased him out the garden and took it back...

Hopefully the 135db alarm and the disk lock will stop that.

Dunc

[DrDonnyBrago]

When me and the better half were looking for somewhere to rent, in our price range there were houses with gardens OR garages... guess which one 'we' went for .

A decent wooden/metal shed will be ok unless your area is a total hell hole, doubt it is much more difficult to break into a metal garage door than it is to get into a secure shed.