campsite bicycle security

[grhm]

I have just had a brainwave Use a dog anchor to attatch the main guy rope of your tent to also lock your bike to it. Anyone tries to tamper with the anchor will cause your tent to fall down at which point you spring out in your Y fronts with baseball bat in hand.

Or you come to, sleepy and confused, to find the tent collapsing/collapsed on you. You fight to get out of your sleeping bag and tent, and when you eventually emerge you find some poor sap who on his way to the loo walked round your guy but tripped over the bike.

 

[Banjo]

http://www.furrypharm.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1090

Or you come to, sleepy and confused, to find the tent collapsing/collapsed on you. You fight to get out of your sleeping bag and tent, and when you eventually emerge you find some poor sap who on his way to the loo walked round your guy but tripped over the bike.

Bet he is more carefull next time.

 

[Crackle]

I've never had a problem touring, sometime the bike has just been layen down with the U-lock through frame and wheels or where possible locked to a tree or fence, I suppose it depends where you are.

 

[asterix]

Don't even think about it. Two members of our cycling club had their bikes stolen from 10 feet away from their tent where they had cable locked them to a tree. Theives tend to go round capsites looking for bikes, you see.

Lock bikes in the car or a proper lockup.

Unfortunately that can happen, but considering that campsites are places where it's impossible to have the sort of security you can have at home, theft is surprisingly rare. I do believe that thieves represent only a very small minority of us and tend to live in cities.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I camped Here last weekend and the owners of the site were only to happy to let us store our bikes in one of the farm sheds. The only other alternative would have been to lock the bikes to a gate near the tents but also next to a public footpath.

 

[DieselDemon]

I've seen some recommend two cheap dog anchors. Screw them both into the ground, close to each other, and them placing a lock through both means you can't just lift and turn the bike to unscrew the anchor from the ground.

Mind, I've never taken a bike camping and I'm just repeating what I've read elsewhere.

What a brilliant tip, one of the best I've seen so far. Thanks.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

A very useful tip indeed. Will seriouly look into that one.

I've seen some recommend two cheap dog anchors. Screw them both into the ground, close to each other, and them placing a lock through both means you can't just lift and turn the bike to unscrew the anchor from the ground.

Mind, I've never taken a bike camping and I'm just repeating what I've read elsewhere.

 

[kewb]

i bought a fishing device called a bite detector its an alarm that attaches to a piece of string ,anything touches your bike and the whole site knows about it .

be warned if camping wild you might get false alarms as a rabbit or deer triggers the line
scares the be jeebeers out you at 3am on a remote riverside location (i speak from experience )

tthey are about matchbox sized and lightweight