Homemade Shed Security for Bike............LONG RANT

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  • skaffen
    skaffen Posts: 72
    We moved everything out of the understairs cupboard, put that stuff in the shed, and put the bikes in the cupboard. Not a huge cupboard but we got both our bikes in, it's unlikely to be the first place thieves look and if you don't take things out in the right order it'll take someone twenty minutes to get the bikes out :)

    It also means that if any thieves do raid the shed, the best they'll get away with is some half empty paint tins, lots of decorating bits and pieces, some folding chairs and a mop :-)
  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    blablablacksheep wrote:
    keep bike in house :roll:

    problem solved...

    you also know insurance doesnt cover bikes in sheds most of the time right???

    Lots of people don't have that option though do they?
  • TwSpanner
    TwSpanner Posts: 13
    Bar Shaker wrote:
    You can't sue a farmer if you touch his electric fence. It won't kill you but is extremely unpleasant.

    The same system is used around the Olympic Park.

    The mains could kill you but a farm fence system may be an option.

    The problem, though is trying to use the words 'shed' and 'security' in the same sentence.

    Never thought about electric fences.
    Plenty of info about electric fences on the internet..........makes you think.
  • milfredo
    milfredo Posts: 322
    MrChuck wrote:
    blablablacksheep wrote:
    keep bike in house :roll:

    problem solved...

    you also know insurance doesnt cover bikes in sheds most of the time right???

    Lots of people don't have that option though do they?

    I live in a small house (2 up, 2 down) and previously in a flat and have always kept my bikes inside. Vertical storage racks are the way forward and the bikes are listed under the home insurance as valuable items.
  • BungleGsy
    BungleGsy Posts: 4
    What about one of these?

    http://www.henrykrank.com/alarm_mine.html

    BANG!
  • Phillw454
    Phillw454 Posts: 101
    BungleGsy wrote:
    What about one of these?

    http://www.henrykrank.com/alarm_mine.html

    BANG!

    Use these last summer on a farmhouse we were restoring. They are simple things that really do make a hell of a bang (Sleepy monday mornings, forgetting where the trip wires were).

    Set a couple up on the door and one more inside the shed somewhere if there is space. If nothing else will make a good noise and wake you up/scare them off at least once.
  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    milfredo wrote:
    MrChuck wrote:
    blablablacksheep wrote:
    keep bike in house :roll:

    problem solved...

    you also know insurance doesnt cover bikes in sheds most of the time right???

    Lots of people don't have that option though do they?

    I live in a small house (2 up, 2 down) and previously in a flat and have always kept my bikes inside. Vertical storage racks are the way forward and the bikes are listed under the home insurance as valuable items.

    Fine, but lots of people have housemates who might not be so tolerant of bikes inside.
  • lobsterhotpot
    lobsterhotpot Posts: 19
    Yep, all your opinions are valid, Insurance is still number one, wooden shed v/s theif is always going to be a problem. I phoned my insurance company and then followed with photos of my chain, bikes and big bucket of conctrete as well as the certificates of the chain etc and they reduced my home insurance premium by a lot more than the bucket of concrete thing. I have a decent sized house but also a family, House for us>>>>shed for bikes. As someone else said," its just a bike not a pricless atrtifact"

    Ps, Dont even get me started about GPS!!!!
    C
  • rippleman
    rippleman Posts: 27
    chains are all pretty poo imho, being a motorcyclist, i have looked into what to secure my bike with and came across this vid...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck

    suffice to say, i stuck with a good alarm and i keep my MTB in the house!

    doesnt help a lot i grant you but it will save you spending £150 on a chain that could be cut through in a minute or two

    just as a note... check this too

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-LWGJzg ... re=related
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    Again, it's all about size, which is what the almax guys are on about. ANY 'security device' that is thicker than 16mm (19mm being preferred) is immune to hand tools (assuming the correct surface hardening to preven hand saws) and nothing is immune to angle grinders.

    Motorbikes are a different kettle of fish. For your insurance don't they usually only care about an immobiliser?
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  • TwSpanner
    TwSpanner Posts: 13
    rippleman wrote:
    chains are all pretty poo imho, being a motorcyclist, i have looked into what to secure my bike with and came across this vid...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck

    suffice to say, i stuck with a good alarm and i keep my MTB in the house!

    doesnt help a lot i grant you but it will save you spending £150 on a chain that could be cut through in a minute or two

    just as a note... check this too

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-LWGJzg ... re=related

    After watching those videos two things struck me.
    First it took the full body weight of those guys to break the chains with the croppers on the floor. If the bike and chain are up high nobody is going to have the muscle to chop those chains. So a ground anchor is actually giving the thief the leverage they need to get through the chain.
    Second thing was all the 'how to' videos there are to break our locks. Bloody instruction videos for villains, worlds gone mad.
  • rippleman
    rippleman Posts: 27
    ride_whenever wrote:

    Motorbikes are a different kettle of fish. For your insurance don't they usually only care about an immobiliser?

    no, they do take other security into account. i didnt do a chain in the end and went with a disc lock but that is pretty much fick all use on a MTB!!!
    TwSpanner wrote:

    After watching those videos two things struck me.
    First it took the full body weight of those guys to break the chains with the croppers on the floor. If the bike and chain are up high nobody is going to have the muscle to chop those chains. So a ground anchor is actually giving the thief the leverage they need to get through the chain.
    Second thing was all the 'how to' videos there are to break our locks. Bloody instruction videos for villains, worlds gone mad.

    the point is, that any chain can be cut with the right tools and time. just got to do the best you can with what you have at your disposal

    and the "how to" video is not really a instruction manual, more a "dont buy this sh*t lock" advisory
  • TwSpanner
    TwSpanner Posts: 13
    rippleman wrote:
    and the "how to" video is not really a instruction manual, more a "dont buy this sh*t lock" advisory

    To us its an advisory, to the scumbags its a instructional video.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    TwSpanner wrote:
    rippleman wrote:
    and the "how to" video is not really a instruction manual, more a "dont buy this sh*t lock" advisory

    To us its an advisory, to the scumbags its a instructional video.

    Because they don't know this stuff anyway. Put stuff like this online and innocent customers don't pay for a useless lock, while the crooks probably don't learn anything new.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."

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