Safest Place to Leave a Bike in Dublin City Centre?

Thargor

Where is the safest place in Dublin to leave a bike for the whole day on Saturday? Ill be getting off the dart in Tara Street at 11 am and probably not back again until 11pm that night, anywhere convenient on O Connells street or nearby? Ill be able to check up on it once or twice during the day.

buffalo

It's been mentioned here before - Drury Street car park offers dedicated bike racks.

abcdggs

i've had good luck with outside pearse garda station. i have always used 2 good locks if leaving for any length of time though

mgmt

Thargor wrote: »

Where is the safest place in Dublin to leave a bike for the whole day on Saturday? Ill be getting off the dart in Tara Street at 11 am and probably not back again until 11pm that night, anywhere convenient on O Connells street or nearby? Ill be able to check up on it once or twice during the day.

Best not to advertise this on the internet.

Doctor Bob

I've heard that there are bike lockers in Connolly Station, but I don't know where they are, or if they're available to the general public or for registered members only. I know it's not Tara Street, but a 10 minute walk for full peace of mind seems like a small price to pay.:)

If you do find them, let us know.

And to abcdggs's suggestion, I'd add that outside Pearse Street GS is one of the few places in Dublin where I've seen a lad brazenly checking bikes for crap locks. Possibly a rare occurrence, but worth mentioning all the same.

rjr2

I know someone who had a recently bought hybrid stolen from outside Pearse Street station, so I wouldn't hold too much confidence in the security of that location. Don't know anywhere else secure around there though

petethedrummer

What sort of lock(s) do you have?

Thargor

This one:

http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_231153_langId_-1_categoryId_212470

It feels secure and it has that gold rating, still going to get that yellow Kryptonite for my new Boardman though.

Anyway I think Ill give Drury Street a go, thanks people. By the way what about the railing directly outside Tara Street Station on the footpath there, seems to be a lot of bikes on it always, is it too risky, its always busy anyway.

Rew

buffalo wrote: »

It's been mentioned here before - Drury Street car park offers dedicated bike racks.

are they free?

Doctor Bob

Rew wrote: »

are they free?

They are. It's open access on the ground floor, with CCTV and staff nearby.

Re the parking at Connolly, I had a quick rummage around this morning and found this, from October 2010:

BIKE PARKING FACILITIES, BIKE LOCKERS, SECURITY, SHOWERS, INTEGRATION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT ETC : a small number of studies show what Pucher et al say one would expect, namely that all these measures produce low but measurable increases in cycling when provided. Pucher et al say that causation also works the other way i.e. more cycling drives more parking etc provision. Cyclists love bike lockers (Iarnrod Eireann have provided them on the Navan rail line and say they will re-instate them in Connolly station-RR).

http://www.cyclist.ie/2010/10/brief-comments-and-excerpts-from-2009-pucher-et-al-paper-on-effective-pro-cycling-measures/

I don't know if they've yet been reinstated. Might be worth calling IR or Connolly Station directly. If the lockers still aren't back, someone asking about them might spur IR into action.

Rew

As far as i know there are some bike lockers in the station in Dunboyne, not city center but hopefully a sign of things.

Faker74

I tend to leave my bike at the racks between penny's and the GPO.


I use two locks, a d/u lock for rear wheel to the post, and a strong cable lock for front wheel, through the frame, and to the post.

I know some will say this isn't a great location, but whenever I am there there always seems to be regular garda foot patrols passing by, plus, there are so many bikes there that are poorly locked that a theif would have a much easier time on them so hopefully will skip mine for the easy target.

Not an ideal solution, but probably a realistic one.

JMJR

Rew wrote: »

As far as i know there are some bike lockers in the station in Dunboyne, not city center but hopefully a sign of things.

There are, I was involved in the station building. AFAIK they were intended for commuters- you paid an annual premium to rent them. But maybe short term usage is possible. And it would be no harm to let IE know that facilities like this would be appreciated at stations on the extension of this line from Pace to Navan which will soon be at the planning submission stage. john