Best place to keep your bike?

[MCW]

It's blowing a hoolie outside and pissing down with rain. 2 weeks ago someone slashed my cover with a knife and tried to make off with the bike. I don't have a garage.

I have cleared the hallway, put some tarp down and brought the bike inside. Drawback is you can't get in the front door now, benefit is that I can hang the ironing on the handlebars.

I've asked everyone to use the back door until late spring. They have stopped shouting at me, but there are a lot of dark mutterings.

Am I being unreasonable...?

[Matt-]

It's fine, have you not got a garden?

You can rent cancel garages for less than £10 pound a week ( its £6,50 ) in are area...

Matt
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[flyer]

Ive got a council garage, £40 a month, so not bad. Can you build a basis lean too on the back of your house?
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[MCW]

[Zen Dog]

As a biker, I think you're being totally reasonable.

Especially since someone has already had a go at stealing it.

Who is this "everyone"?

Zen Dog
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[Matt-]

Chances are if you have a garden you will have some concrete...

Get a bolt set, get someone to bolt a " u " bar into the ground, then get a nice big chain, best thing would be an alarm...

Matt
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[MCW]

[Peirre oBollox]

Just remember with the bike blocking the door, you`ll have 1 less exit should the place burn down
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[jetski]

it makes sense given your immediate situation. but what about erecting a shed in the garden? it will add a bit of security, keep it safe from the elements. you can put an alarm on the shed. also they often pop up on freecycle website. I rent a council garage just a few minutes down the road for £20 a month because I live in a pokie flat with no garden

[stoke-gaz]

I don't think the hallway is unreasonable, when i eventually get my first bike it will be kept in the kitchen overnight, don't quite think my mrs likes the idea so much though......
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[Matt-]

She would would be good, with a concrete base so you can bolt a lock to the floor and also use a chain, also you will have room to put other stuff in their...

Matt
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[jetski]

I think the people saying the bike is a fire/safety hazard are being over dramatic. I'm sure she would be able to get passed it if she needed to, it's a bike not a brick wall, she must be able to get the bike in and out of the door so it can't be that tight in there

[Groove]

I vote shed.

Also, if there was a fire, the bike would be the only thing I went back for (other than my daughter and dog (dog as in bitch(bitch as in female dog(female dog as in with 4 legs and a tail - I'm currently single)))).
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[andyscooter]

sure there is somthing in the house insurance saying you cant keep it inside

if there is a fire and it goes up it will invalidate the policy or somthing along those lines
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[Polarbear]

Have you got room for a shed? Slabs, shed bolted to them, shed alarm and ground anchor.
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[truslack]

You've only got one bike in the hallway, what's the problem?
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[dogwafter]

All of my bike have been kept inside my house since 2 of them got nicked at the same time.

Its the safest way.

[Shinigami]

shed made of 6" thick steel (including the door) with a retina scan system for entry.

Said shed should also be housed underground and raise up when triggered by a dna locked security interface.
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[cromwell]

She'd, you can get one of those cheapish wooden ones from B&Q, put some cheap stuff on the floor, big old padlock on the door, alarmed disk lock on it while it's in the shed, (a loud one will leave their ears ringing in such a small area).
If its out of sight you only have to worry about the people that already know you have it as opposed to any half chancer walking past.
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[Rogerborg]

Leave it outside under a big sign saying "If you touch my bike I will hunt you down and teach you algebra and calculus."

OK, inside. Is this long term? If so, keep the tank outside or at least empty it completely and leave it to vent. Bars and pegs off (if they don't flip completely out of the way) so that you can get it tight against the wall.

Alternatively, if the squares keep moaning, then how about most of the bike outside, and chained down, but strategic portions inside? Wheels, bars? Make those feckless scrotes socio-economically disadvantaged young people work for it?
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[RichieZX6R]

When I lived with the folks a while bike the bike used to go in the front hallway! Keep it at the side of the house now. Looking into a council garage this week and sorting out a lean to between the house and the wash house/coal house soon though.
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[Alpha-9]

The bedroom. They'll never get it
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