Where do you store your bike when living in built up areas ?

[vp1977uk]

Am looking to do my CBT and course/tests to get a full licence. Eventually i'd wanna do European trips.

I live in a built up area in Leicester with no driveway/garage as am in a terrace house.

The one thing thats really deterring my from getting a license and motorcycle is that id have no where to leave it and theres no way id leave it outside my house even if i get a cheap bike.

Anyone got any inexpensive storage solutions ?
Ive looked at private garage blocks which charges £60-80pm.

[Wonko The Sane]

Either accept the garage cost as part of the running cost for the bike, when insuring if the bike is a distance from your property that is the address at which the bike is kept, not your own address, the cost may increase due to it essentially being unattended.

I imagine that, if the garages are the end of your block, 100m away then be reet.

I live in a terraced house, made my back gate a bit wider and levelled the patio to match the back alley, job's a good-un.
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[Itchy]

Bring it into your house. I've done this a few times in terraced houses as have a few other BCFers. It doesn't work if you've got one of those terrace houses where the stairs are really close to the front door.
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[vp1977uk]

My hallway is narrow about 80cm wide then its a 90 degree turn into the front room.

Don't think it'll work somehow

[One Ball 1971]

Store it in your bedroom or even in your bed with you and the insurance might go down lol
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[Irn-Bru]

I keep one in doors as the hall is a decent size and t'other in the back yard with a billion locks on it. I could quite easily convert the back yard into a garage (some of my neighbours have), wouldn't fit a car but would be excellent for bikes. Hoping to move into a place with a garage in the next year or 2 though so no point.
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[Johnnythefox]

I live in a terrace, four steps up to door, narrow hallway, no access to the back other than through the house.

Bike lives on the road outside in the residents parking bay for which despite being 'congestion busting' I still have to pay for a pass. Bad area too, but - it is a virago750, whose gonna nick that? I chain the rear wheel to prevent it being pushed away for lols and the chain goes through the cover when that's on to make it harder to just nick the cover, it's lasted outside 18 months thus far.

[Beehive Bedlam]

My bike lives in here.

https://i.imgur.com/5bF3Ts3.jpg

Be jealous.

[Rogerborg]

OP's probably come off the bitty though.
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[Teflon-Mike]

Leicester?

From my experience of that particular bit of Danelaw, the wrong side of the A5.... MOVE!

Snowie's record of bikes, when she lived there is long and depressing... she was on L's for a decade, every time she saved up to replace the last bike nicked, she had to re-take the CBT and then repeat!!! I think something like five bikes were nicked from outside her house in as many years, and probably three times as many attempts were made... they even stole the effing anchor at one point!.....

Hold on.. that may have been her ex's CX500... actually I think it was.... easy mistake that...

Wouldn't have been so bad, apart from the fact she lived less than 1/4 mile from the local cop-shop, that could be seen from her front gate!

Theft unfortunately comes with the territory... Both Bikes and particularly Leicester.

A garage is some precaution, but doors get kicked in, and not unknown for scroats to knocks holes in walls to get at whats inside!

So inside OR out, you are advised to use a solid ground anchor... cemented to the floor a bit more sturdily than a CX500, decent security chain and padlock, preferably through the frame, not an easily removed wheel.

Disc-locks are useful precaution when out and about; but no substitute for a chain to a lamp-post or similar.

Alarms, IME are next to useless, no one takes any notice of them, they just flatten your battery!

Do your sums on the insurance carefully; often more expensive on the long run to make a claim than not.. so don't pay over the odds for theft cover or accept large policy excesses to add it, if you will still end up loosing out long term.

Older bikes, and less valuable bikes tend to be cheaper to insure to start with, and maybe slightly less desirable to scroats... but then they took her formers CX500! And even after half a dozen goes, that bent the handlebars, and smashed locks, her Chinky cruserette! So even that's small precaution... they have no taste! They'll take ANYTHING! BUT older cheaper bikes are smaller loss, and if you save cash in the bank, easy enough to replace.

Of the possible options, I wouldn't pay for a lock-up round there... £50+ a month, would be another bike in under a year.. and an remote garage is even more easily broken into, giving scroats privacy to do so... well, if you ignore the glue sniffers and such!

So, down to investing in locks and anchors, making it as hard as you can for them, in hope they will look-elsewhere for easier prey, paying yr money and taking your chances after... and not leaving too much lying around for them to relieve you of.
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[Johnnythefox]

A garage AND a rainpal is the stuff of dreams.....

[weasley]

Just to be the voice of boring and fun-killing reality, if you're keeping the bike in the house, you might want to take a look at your home and contents insurance to see if you might be slightly breaching any clauses therein. Like, if a fire happened and a burnt out chassis of a 125 was found in the house, with its fuel tank and oil sump and all, there might be one or two awkward questions. Especially if any passing kittens happen to breathe in any smoke, or something equally third-party disastrous.

"Yeah but BCF people said they do it" is not, as far as I am aware, a legally robust defence (although it may not have been tested yet, so worth a shot).
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[harlzter]

We rent two garages from the local council at £7 something a week, about 100 yards from front door, one for the bikes and one for the car because the first night we had the car someone cut the fuel lines whilst it was parked on the street.

[andy46]

More of a question than a suggestion and it probably wouldn't work if you don't own the house.

is there any reason to not replace the front downstairs window with a french door set up and wheel the bike in?

[MahatmaAndhi]

The cost of converting the window into doors would be around 3 bikes' worth of cash. And would look hideous.

I definitely wouldn't buy a bike without a decent place to store it though. Like the OP, I live on a terrace street. I parked my bike on the front garden. My Burgman got nicked, pushed down the road and demolished when they (presumably) couldn't get it started.

A few months later, and a new bike, they took the cover off, ripped the ignition cables out and got it in a hotwirable state before realising it was tethered to the ground. Another £200+ in repairs.

I used to wheel my 125 down a very tight ally, lift it up and around a 90 degree corner, then in to my back garden. Unfortunately that wasn't possible with bigger bikes because they were substantially wider.
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