Garage Security

[mistergixer]

I'm moving house shortly to sunny Hemel Hempstead. One of my main concerns is the future safety of my bike - according to the missus we will be living just around the corner from a 'notorious' local bike thief. He's the kind of cunt that has previously borrowed a bike from a 'mate', told his 'mate' it got nicked and he couldn't/wouldn't pay him back, then sold the bike on.
Cunt.

Anyway, the safety of my gixer is weighing heavily on me, and i'm after a few suggestions on security*.

The bike will be garaged, but the garage is set back a few feet from the house and currently ownly has a shitty little lock. I've got a decent chain and a disklock for the bike, but it isn't alarmed.

At the moment my plan is:
Those big external padlocked bolts on the top and bottom of the door.
One of those things on the bottom of the garage door to stop it being lifted.
Ground anchor in the garage for the chain.
Some sort of sensor activated alarm for inside the garage.
Parking our 2 cars on the drive in front of the garage, blocking its entrance.

Any other suggestions?

* I would prefer serious suggestions here, not stuff like 'completely dismantle your bike every time you put it in the garage, simply rebuild it again every time you want to ride it'.
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[veeeffarr]

Least you know who's house to go round to if the bike goes missing

[TheShaggyDA]

CCTV, one camera outside, one inside.
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[mistergixer]

That's a small blessing........


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[scoota bk]

All what you listed, + a gravel driveway and a PIR light on the house should be it sorted

[MarJay]

Xena Garage alarms are quite cheap. A ceiling mounted one should be good. They are supposed to be so loud that they disorientate, which I can say from first hand experience is true.

Mine was good until it got wet, then it wouldn't shut off. It was so painful I had to pick it up off of the floor and smash it.

But as I said, a ceiling mounted one wouldn't be so easy to smash, and hopefully it will be in a garage which doesn't leak!!
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[instigator]

Rape alarm.

Remove the nylon type tie you get with it and replace with fishing wire. Fix the rape alarm on left hand side wall and string the fishing wire along the entrance to the right hand side wall and secure (tie a not and secure it with a nail or something.

Someone comes in, doesn't see it and trips over it. Rape alarms are LOUD and damn cheap. Something that I would do. Of course, chances are you'll forget about it and trip the wire lots of times.

[mitch99]

Alarm mines is what you need, see her on how to install
https://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/ALARM_MINES.htm
and buy them from here https://www.outdoorsman.co.uk/ under pyrotechnics sub-menu, failing that a big stick and a pit bull.

[Wooly R6]

more like these

https://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/mine-m18.gif

"M18 Claymore
The M18 Claymore, a directional fragmentation mine, is 8-1/2 inches long, 1-3/8 inches wide, 3-1/4 inches high, and weighs 3-1/2 pounds. The mine contains 700 steel spheres (10.5 grains) and 1-1/2 pound layer of composition C-4 explosive and is initiated by a No. 2 electric blasting cap. The M18 command-detonated mine may be employed with obstacles or on the approaches, forward edges, flanks and rear edges of protective minefields as close-in protection against a dismounted Infantry attack. "
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[TheShaggyDA]

Tends to scuff the bike's paintwork though.
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[gavin]

[fredsredhat]

Is it an up and over garage door or a roller shutter type? I can help with the roller type

[Ariel Badger]

My best advice, do not move into a house with a notorious bike thief around the corner.
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[Zimbo]

Buy a baby monitor, leave the baby end in the garage concealed and keep the parent end by your bed. Anyone gets into your garage and you'll know about it, instantly, and they won't know you've been alerted. Best and cheapest form of garage / shed security there is.

[Wooly R6]

i think your missus has already planned the bike to get nicked - and thats why she wants to move there - so you wont have a bike!!!

tread carefully, but dont let on that you know!!
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[krebsy]

Tonnes of locks etc. on the outside of the garage advertises that there is something worth nicking inside and can be less of a detterent, more an invitation. If you can exit out of the back of the garage then I'd recommend drilling in a ground anchor to lash the rear of the bike to and also to run to a cable from the garage door. If you get the length right then the door won't open enough to get a cable cutter in. That'll keep the door protected from the outside and they'll have to get into the garage through the back (past the PIR lighting/CCTV etc.) Once in the garage they'll have to then get the door open, separate the bike from the rear anchor and from the front one (if fitted as well). chuck in an IR triggered ceiling mounted alarm and you're sorted... (Hopefully ).

I'm getting proper police CCTV fitted to my house following the criminal damage that has been done to the cars in the street as well... .

K.
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[Gazdaman]

You can get these barrier things that are fitted in front of the garage door, but then it marks your garage as having something worth protecting.

I have read of thieves dismantling the wall of a brick garage to get at the contents.

Just get some dead bolts and decent padlocks, a ground anchor for the bike, an alarm and some sort of CCTV.

Gaz

[nrml76]

Pay him a visit, and tell him to get on his knees every night and pray that your bike remains safe for his own health and well being. Warn him that the first thing you will do if your bike is stolen, is to smash his spine with a hammer, and leave him wheelchair bound for the rest of his life.
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