Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Safe place to leave bike

  • 11-08-2011 9:10pm
    #1
    djdunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys can anyone recommend a safe place to leave a bike in the city centre. not really keen on leaving it outside debenhams.


Comments

  • #2
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    To be honest I don't think there's anywhere 100% safe to leave the bike! I usually leave mine in Mary I and walk down!

    Would love if a city centre car park would allow people to park bikes! Couple of places in Dublin do and it's a great service!
    I wonder if Tony Clarke would be interested in doing it in his car park!
    5 car spaces could easily hold about 30 bikes!


  • #3
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    When I used to cycle to town used to always lock me bike in a really old
    tiny tiny carpark in Bedford Row against a bit of pipe! for a few pence the bloke that worked in the garage would look after it.
    surprisingly at the time it was considered one of the safest places to lock yer bike in the city at the time, and outside Roches Stores by the railings being the most dodgiest despite how public and being smack bang in the center of Limerick those railings were.

    Alas the place is long gone.

    Do modern Carparks in the City not offer a Bike service ?
    (Sorry I dont drive so dont use carparks so would not know)

    ~B


  • #4
    sioda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,534 ✭✭✭sioda


    Bedford motor company car park Noel was a great lad


  • #5
    djdunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭djdunny


    sioda wrote: »
    Bedford motor company car park Noel was a great lad

    i think i remember that place, just up the road from spaights. oh god im feeling old.


  • #6
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    djdunny wrote: »
    Hey guys can anyone recommend a safe place to leave a bike in the city centre. not really keen on leaving it outside debenhams.
    on the street between Henry street station and o'connell street. They have proper bike locking yokes there - can't remember the name for them. Basically an upside down U shape that you can lock both wheels and frame to. Get a Kryptonite D-lock (aka U-lock!) with a cable that will loop through it. On the phone now,but could post a link to the one I use when on a real pooter. Got mine from chainreactioncycles.com


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Aren't smart phones brillunt! The proper name for them is Sheffield bike stands, and here http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mobile/MobileModels.aspx?ModelID=27019 is the lock I have.


  • #8
    yayamark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭yayamark


    Bike Stand outside Henry St Garda Station.


  • #9
    constantg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭constantg


    yayamark wrote: »
    Bike Stand outside Henry St Garda Station.

    Probably the best place to park it if you WANT it to get robbed :P

    Best bet is pick a spot with a lot of traffic; train station, shopping centre, etc. Also if its a work thing talk to your employer, I'm sure they wouldn't be against doing you a favour about storage


  • #10
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Leave it outside the Locke Bar, there's a few bike stands up that road along the river. There's always people sitting outside the front of the bar, and plenty of tourists around too (about the only area they go these days).

    Have left mine there a few times, including a night out after which I cycled back home :o


Advertisement