Security

[veeeffarr]

Hi,

Currently my bike is in my garden, chained to a drainpipe (Not the most secure thing, I know! )

I can't add ground anchors (Can't do anything that would involve drilling, cutting, moving, cementing etc)

Also I'm quite pissed off I don't have a garage.

It makes me sad to see my bike insecure outside, with no shelter getting rained on, plus it's a real shitter to try and do maintainance in the pitch black in the cold with no space

I'm spending so much money on the bike as well, and the more I spend the more I wonder whether it's a good idea keeping it

Sorry, just really pissed off, I worry all night whether my bike's going to get nicked and I'm pissed off I don't have somewhere warm clean and dry to work on it.

Any ideas?

Toby

[Itchy]

reposted concrete block solution from a much older post of mine

cheap and cheerful


The concrete block solution , learned from a mate who used to live in Hong Kong.


Get 2 ground anchors £15 each those that you cement into the ground , buy a couple of those cheapo plastic boxes really big ones used for general storage the cheaper the better as you will destroy them £1.50 each. ,


Now get a mate with a car , and go round to a builders yard or a ready mix concrete place (sometimes they bring it round to you)
and fill the boxes with concrete and put the ground anchors into the drying concrete , and leave it for a day or so hack off the plastic boxes and you have two solid blocks of concrete depending on how big you made them , which you can secure your bike to , if you make some steel reinforced concrete even better... £2 for the concrete £3 for some old steel £10 for a couple pints for an engineering student to build the reinforcement for you

Do not make gigantic cubic metre blocks as you will not be able to move them.


reinforced = better as a bloke with a big hammer can't hit it and crack it easily.


now buy yourself a hand truck , those L shaped things with two wheels that people who move lots of stuff have , and you can bring them into the house when not used and out when you park them £20 , buy one depending on the size and weight of the blocks you want to use.

Since you also have a car its even better make L shaped blocks with simple moulds and park the car over the bits that stick out with the wheels on the concrete slats ,

which serves as an OK hash of a ground anchor which is pretty cheap , however the weakness moved away from a bloke with a van lifting it away into the back of his van to the strength of your chain , but since it is your home immobile security you can use gigantic ship chains to lock it up.


BUT before you even consider this , calculate the weights involved and where you will store the blocks if asked to move them when not in use ,

[kawakid]

Sorry to hear that mate.

Is there nothing you can do?

No mates near by with a garage?

No possibility of getting a shed?

Move house?
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[Walloper]

What if the big blocks fall through the landing of our flats?
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[veeeffarr]

[veeeffarr]

I'm toying with the idea of a shed... Going to have a look soon

Another disheartening thing is that I can barely get my CG through the gate... If I get a bigger bike its not going to go in

[tatters]

The concrete block solution and a heavy chain + disk/U lock and maybe a hidden killswitch between the coil and its supply will do to stop joy riders/Chavs, its unlikely professional thief’s would go for a CG125 so theres no need to go OTT.
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[ZZR Girl]

My bike is garaged, plus steering locked, plus chain & padlock, plus disk locked. Am I being paranoid?
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BikeTent ?
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