How do you secure your bikes indoors?

mrbungle · 10-01-2012 12:06pm #1

Just wondering how ye do it?
Might have a second bike on the way and need a good way to secure them in case of thievery.
Don't think I can get them insured on their own, plus locking them to a radiator probably isn't an option.

Chains, cavity blocks? Just being cautious. Would be interested in your ideas.

bcmf · 10-01-2012 12:38pm

Do you have easy access to an attic. Hang it form the rafters in the attic.

emmetmurphy · 10-01-2012 12:40pm

Id double lock the doors

Rob Nulty · 10-01-2012 12:58pm

Safest thing to do is bring them everywhere with you. this is also very good exercise, so youll keep fit at the same time.

07Lapierre · 10-01-2012 1:07pm

Thief in the house? Stuff the bikes..... What about the telly???

Rob Nulty · 10-01-2012 1:10pm

07Lapierre wrote: »

Thief in the house? Stuff the bikes..... What about the telly???

Or the jewellery!!!

theoldalfer · 10-01-2012 1:20pm

a big hungry ass dog or 2.

Darkglasses · 10-01-2012 1:28pm

Gun?

EDIT: FISTS?

NeedMoreGears · 10-01-2012 1:30pm

As a minimum, lock them to each other so that they are harder to carry away.

I keep two bikes in a locked shed. The bikes themselves are locked to a very heavy piece of iron with a large chain. You may be able to do the same inside the house (if you're let!)

Rob Nulty · 10-01-2012 1:33pm

NeedMoreGears wrote: »

As a minimum, lock them to each other so that they are harder to carry away.

I keep two bikes in a locked shed. The bikes themselves are locked to a very heavy piece of iron with a large chain. You may be able to do the same inside the house (if you're let!)

What size shed is it? I dont think id be allowed a shed in the house.

ashleey · 10-01-2012 1:34pm

It's well known that roadies sleep with their bikes so if you are going for a threesome you may need a bigger bed

Junior · 10-01-2012 2:10pm

One of these

emmetmurphy · 10-01-2012 2:12pm

ashleey wrote: »

It's well known that roadies sleep with their bikes so if you are going for a threesome you may need a bigger bed

a Threesome?

I think he means a different type of bike,

Outkast_IRE · 10-01-2012 2:14pm

07Lapierre wrote: »

Thief in the house? Stuff the bikes..... What about the telly???

Some bikes are worth more than the telly :-) and much easier to get away on

Rob Nulty · 10-01-2012 2:16pm

What type of dog is that junior?

emmetmurphy · 10-01-2012 2:18pm

its a freya rob... its wrote on the collar

Rob Nulty · 10-01-2012 2:24pm

Hi emmet, i looked up freya on the internet, and all i got was womens knickers!

So i dont think its a freya. It looks like an american Bulldog, or one of those othe r englishdogs..

manwithaplan · 10-01-2012 2:24pm

Blue collar thingy but called Freya. Can we have a 'hustler style' photo to be sure?

07Lapierre · 10-01-2012 2:41pm

Rob Nulty wrote: »

Or the jewellery!!!

I don't wear jewellery

Junior · 10-01-2012 2:41pm

Rob Nulty wrote: »

What type of dog is that junior?

She's a cross breed mixture of Rottie and Lab, she was rescued from by the ISPAC about 8 years ago and we adopted her when she was less than a year old.

gman2k · 10-01-2012 4:13pm

This girl inside the house
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This fella outside

locked doors, and the (good) bikes chained to a weights bench!

Wheely GR8 · 10-01-2012 4:16pm

Its easy to hide the wheels in the house somewhere ,I'd say the bikes would be less appealing without wheels.

Captain Havoc · 10-01-2012 4:32pm

If it's in a spare room you could get a bike stand and wrap a lock around it and attach it with a D lock, they'll still be able to lift it but it'll be bastard to do so, maybe impossible to carry through a door.

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petethedrummer · 10-01-2012 4:38pm

A team of ninjas and a bengal tiger.

emmetmurphy · 12-01-2012 9:56am

Leave it in your Mam and dads they will never look there

doozerie · 12-01-2012 1:54pm

Mine is in the attic primarily to free up space but I did think it might be a safer location too. However a neighbour of ours was broken into recently and apparently the thieves went into the attic and lifted all of the insulation (presumably looking for stuff that may have been hidden there rather than due to an addiction to glass fibres, but who knows...). So maybe attics are regularly targeted as part of a house break-in, at least when there is no-one in the house.

If you do store it in the attic then one option is to hide whatever tool you use to open the attic door, which might delay a thief from getting in there (the alternative theory being that they'll simply break into the attic anyway and cause expensive damage in the process).

...maybe just bury the bike under the patio? Or down the back of the sofa, from where it'll never be found.

8119tm · 14-01-2012 7:57pm

like this

brownbeard · 15-01-2012 10:17am

8119tm wrote: »

like this

That's amazing.

How do you secure your bikes indoors?

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