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New Bike Park in Drury Street

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  • #32
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    projectmayhem wrote: »
    Use it 3 nights a week. Very convenient for me and I have seen usage vary between days. Shame it's not used more.

    Also a shame that this is a regular sight...

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    I've been tweeting images like this a few times, and it's apparently been highlighted to the cycling officer in Dublin... but it's still a bit ridiculous.

    AFAIK that car belongs to one of the staff. It's usually there in the AM but gone later.

    An enterprising Vespa owner has also taken to parking in the bike park recently. Not that it's an issue at the moment, given that there are rarely more than 20 bikes using the facility.


  • #33
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Picking up my commuter from Drury Street Bike park tonight when I noticed that someone had been having a go at my lock (a Trelock FS 455). Looked like they had tried to prise it open.

    Spoke to one of the people in the office and he said he would have a scan through the CCTV. Bike is fine but I'll be keeping it in the office for the next while.


  • #34
    greener greene
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭greener greene


    daragh_ wrote: »
    Picking up my commuter from Drury Street Bike park tonight when I noticed that someone had been having a go at my lock (a Trelock FS 455). Looked like they had tried to prise it open.

    Spoke to one of the people in the office and he said he would have a scan through the CCTV. Bike is fine but I'll be keeping it in the office for the next while.

    A friend of mine had his bike stolen from the carpark about a month or two ago, however he was using one of the saddest excuses for a lock I'd ever seen. He didn't heed my warning that it would do nothing :rolleyes:


  • #35
    seeing_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭seeing_ie


    So there has been thefts then? The design of Drury St. bike park never filled me with confidence. No direct line of sight for staff onto the bikes and not much of a security presence.

    If I'm parking for any length of time I'll try and park in Drury St. or the multi-storey in Jervis St., with a security guard on the gate.

    Interrupted fellas making off with my quick release pin recently on Liffey St., brother had two bikes taken from an apt common area last night (two crappy bikes tbh).

    You need about €100 worth of locks to secure a bike imo.


  • #36
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    seeing_ie wrote: »
    No direct line of sight for staff onto the bikes and not much of a security presence
    I've parked there about a dozen times and have yet to see any security staff in that office.

    And that bloody jeep is still parked there! :(


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  • #37
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Anyone got an email for Andrew Montague? Might be worth following up on the theft thing.


  • #38
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I parked my bike in there at lunch time last Wednesday and there was an unlocked bike just sitting in the stand next to mine. :eek:

    It was a quite nice Trek.


  • #39
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    daragh_ wrote: »
    Anyone got an email for Andrew Montague? Might be worth following up on the theft thing.
    You can PM him. He posts here. Or, at the least, used to until quite recently.

    His user name is AMontague.


  • #40
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    You can PM him. He posts here. Or, at the least, used to until quite recently.

    His user name is AMontague.

    Will do. Thanks.


  • #41
    gwjones42
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭gwjones42


    Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but am sitting here fuming after my bike was taken from the parking facility on Drury Street this evening between 3:30 and 7:30 and need to talk about it.

    It was a shiny new Bike to Work Trek Road Bike that was black and blue, with white handles and saddle and had a strong lock that I've been using without issue for the past couple of months on my commute between Maynooth and Ballyfermot, but I now realise I should have used more than one lock....or just not gone to the city centre on it at all..........but if it's the case that a purpose built bike parking facility isn't safe, then where is???

    I knew there was a huge risk bringing it into town and wouldn't dream of locking it to a lampost, so I did my research online and only decided to go in on the bike after finding out about the indoor parking area "with cctv" (as the DCC cycling blog says).

    I'm thinking now that all the cctv will be good for will be showing it being taken :-(

    Anyway....it was a risk and I was naive to bring an eye-catching bike to a place that I couldn't keep an eye on it....now I've paid for it.

    Be warned!


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  • #42
    jimmii
    Registered Users Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    gwjones42 wrote: »
    Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but am sitting here fuming after my bike was taken from the parking facility on Drury Street this evening between 3:30 and 7:30 and need to talk about it.

    It was a shiny new Bike to Work Trek Road Bike that was black and blue, with white handles and saddle and had a strong lock that I've been using without issue for the past couple of months on my commute between Maynooth and Ballyfermot, but I now realise I should have used more than one lock....or just not gone to the city centre on it at all..........but if it's the case that a purpose built bike parking facility isn't safe, then where is???

    I knew there was a huge risk bringing it into town and wouldn't dream of locking it to a lampost, so I did my research online and only decided to go in on the bike after finding out about the indoor parking area "with cctv" (as the DCC cycling blog says).

    I'm thinking now that all the cctv will be good for will be showing it being taken :-(

    Anyway....it was a risk and I was naive to bring an eye-catching bike to a place that I couldn't keep an eye on it....now I've paid for it.

    Be warned!

    Post pictures on twitter and ask for some retweets timi from picturethis had his stolen from his apaprtment and it was spotted times around town and in the end he got it back.


  • #43
    BrianHenryIE
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭BrianHenryIE


    gwjones42 wrote: »
    ...and had a strong lock that I've been using without issue for the past couple of months...

    What lock? (so the rest of us know what's good/bad)


  • #44
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    No lock is good enough for an angle grinder.

    Sorry for your loss gwjones. Have you secured the CCTV footage from the car park security and reported the theft to guards?


  • #45
    gwjones42
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭gwjones42


    It was locked with a heavy chain and padlock (that is usually too heavy to carry). I don't normally need it because I keep the bike indoors in work with me anyway.....it got brought out especially for my trip to town today!

    The guy working in the car park was very good to be fair to him....I filled out a report for him and he told me he would secure the tapes, then I went to Pearse Street Garda Station to report it and the Gard was very nice there too. He said it would be Sunday before he can get out and about to get them.

    I was able to show pictures of it on my phone and I have the serial number too so if it's found, I'll have done as much as I could to ensure I get it back.


  • #46
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    A chain and padlock might not be as secure as you think. Depends on what chain and what padlock. Even with an excellent chain and padlock, you have to make sure the chain can't be made to touch the ground, as it's very vulnerable to a bolt-cutter attack in that arrangement, as the the thief can stand on the bolt cutters for extra force.


  • #47
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    gwjones42 wrote: »
    It was locked with a heavy chain and padlock (that is usually too heavy to carry). I don't normally need it because I keep the bike indoors in work with me anyway.....it got brought out especially for my trip to town today!

    As tomasrojo said, a chain and padlock are only as strong as their weakest link. Usually the padlock itself. If its long it can be pinned to the ground for an easier angle grinder or bolt cutter attack. Hope you get it back, put up a photo of the bike and take to Twitter with the CCTV evidence if you can get a copy. The local cop shop might even recognise the faces.


  • #48
    gwjones42
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭gwjones42


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    Here's me looking ridiculously excited the day I got it. I still have the panniers and lights as I was carrying them around with me.


  • #49
    Johnnio13
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    The ba$tards!
    Did you check that lotto ticket behind you on the fridge? It may be a winner.
    Will keep an eye out on the usual sites for you.


  • #50
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    That's a bollix, I've parked there for years and no problems. Really sorry your bike was stolen from there.
    Let us know the outcome of the CCTV, if there is one.


  • #51
    TheNah
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭TheNah


    That's an absolute sickener. I part there a lot. Bit worried now if thieves are targeting it. Hope you get the bike back.


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  • #52
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    TheNah wrote: »
    an absolute sickener. I part there a lot. Bit worried now if thieves are targeting it. Hope you get the bike back.

    what about briniging the bike up in the lift and locking it in an out of the way location on a floor above? Anyone tried this strategy? Scumbags are lazy at the end of the day


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