How do you lock up your bike at home?

[Hill Wimp]

I have a ground anchor in my shed for the road bike. Two other bikes are in there as well and the shed has got a big f off bar lock across the door.

The Brompton lives in the downstairs loo.

 

[Pikey]

In my spare room...
I have a machete too to defend their honour if shtf.

 

[classic33]

Electric fencing

Battery powered, perfectly legal. Shed handle wired up to a battery powered box. Move the handle too much, you turn the fence on. Key required to turn it off.

 

[classic33]

Recently my eldest daughters ex partner turned up and started to have a go. Unfortunately, he failed to understand that her Rottweiler puppy was now a 58kg ox of a dog, who was none too pleased to see his Mum in distress. I can't describe the scene as I wasn't there, but apparently he was screaming like Dale Winton at a wedding dress sale while running up the road at a pace that would have put Usain Bolt to shame.

Sufficeth to say I'm a big fan of rottweilers at the moment.

Was the dog hurt?

 

[Pikey]

Battery powered, perfectly legal. Shed handle wired up to a battery powered box. Move the handle too much, you turn the fence on. Key required to turn it off.

I had a similar system planned to stop drunks p1ssing in my front garden at my old house, several meters squared of electrified chicken wire...
Sad to say we moved before it had a chance to be tested to fruition. Damn proud I was of it too, the battery system solar recharged and everything...

 

[classic33]

I had a similar system planned to stop drunks p1ssing in my front garden at my old house, several meters squared of electrified chicken wire...
Sad to say we moved before it had a chance to be tested to fruition. Damn proud I was of it too, the battery system solar recharged and everything...

Only ever used once. Had police turn up when they said it was a busy night, I just said he wasn't going anywhere take as long as you want. Then got on with the important task of getting a cuppa.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Its a small flat?

Can you put up some garage type hooks and hang them up out of the way?

 

[glenn forger]

Bit harsh on the drunks.

 

[slowmotion]

Its a small flat?

Can you put up some garage type hooks and hang them up out of the way?

I bought one of those overhead pulley thingies from Lidl. You can mount them on the ceiling and hoist up your bike. The problem is that you need a quite high ceiling to get the bike out of the way. I considered mounting it over a landing but then you have to drag the bike up the stairs. It the end, we just put down an eight foot long length of sisal matting across the entire width of our narrow hall, and the bike lives there.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Suspend them from the ceiling?

No, hanging's too good for bike thieves, it has to be something worse. Oops, sorry, forgot to read the rest of your post.

 

[Felix79]

I use to use "Oxford-Locks" to protect my bike. They are like a spine and are really difficult to break open even with power tools. Bike theft in Oxford is really high due to the sheer amount of people in and around the city who cycle and I had a few bikes pinched before I started using "Oxford-Locks" and I never had another bike stolen after then. This was back in '94 through to 2001, but I am sure you can get the same type of locks. D-Locks are really easy to bust open and too often people put too much trust in just using one of them and nothing else.

With your two bikes, I would remove the front wheels of the two bikes, making sure you have the frames rear wheels meet in the middle, so the forks are at different ends. That way it will be really difficult for them to get the bikes apart as well as getting the wheels off etc. Most thieves will only go for things that are really easy to steal and even easier to sell on, so the noisier and more difficult it is for them to take the bikes, the less likely they will even bother going for them.

 

[Drago]

Was the dog hurt?

Dog was fine. We don't think he caught any diseases when he bit the chumps arriss.

He's been brought up and trained properly, and although he's an absolute tank he's a wonderful, gentle character. Seeing his Mum in distress was just too much for him to bear and he did exactly what any big muscular human would do if their loved on was in distress. If you have bikes then in light of this I can fully recommend the dog breed Rotweillerous Bumibiteicus.

 

[vickster]

Asgard in the garden, with a big Kryptonite chain around the bikes. In the house, I don't lock them up

@jahlive905 Make sure they are insured on the balcony, confirm with insurers

 

[Elybazza61]

Helium and better halfs Avail live in the kitchen,Planet X,Icarus,Graham Weigh and other halfs MTB in the brick side passage and shed;all insured with the Helium om it's own seperate part of the policy because off it's cost.

Oh and Trek hybrid and Dawes 500 frames in what was the bike shed but is now just a general shed;Trek will soon be built up as a city/shopper and Dawes touring frame will go(hopefully to a good home)as it's really too big for me.

 

[mjr]

I use to use "Oxford-Locks" to protect my bike. They are like a spine and are really difficult to break open even with power tools.

Got a link? Oxford Products are a big producer of bike locks, which makes it difficult to find what you're talking about.

Most thieves will only go for things that are really easy to steal and even easier to sell on, so the noisier and more difficult it is for them to take the bikes, the less likely they will even bother going for them.

Yeah, you don't need to run faster than the bear - just faster than the other guy!