Bike Anti-Theft Kit.

I'm tempted to beef up the security on the garage my bike/tools/sailing
kit is in. By which I mean adding a stonking big lock bolted to the
ground holding the door closed.

What worries me is that it may merely be blatently advertising there's
something nickable in there.

What's the best most discrete way to protect my garage???

Is it better to have a chain in the garage bolting the bike to the
ground?

Discuss.

 

scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Pissed-off rottweiler with a Mac-10.

 

emerged from their own little world to say

If it is easy to get into the garage then a thief can work, unseen, to
defeat any security within. The job is made easier if you leave your tools
inside the garage.

You need to ensure your house is secure too. As many bikes now have coded
keys a determined thief will enter your house, grab the keys and be off
with your pride & joy.

 

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No amount of security, whether visible or not, is going to keep out a
thieving scrote who has predetermined they are after a specific item or
items but it may slow them down enough to discourage some.


Hi-vis security keeps out opportunist thieving scrotes in large numbers.


There *is* every point in showing (some of) your defences.

 

Keep your bike in your house? Wives the world over love having a large
motorcycle in the kitchen.

 

Buy a rotweiller or two. Let them live in the garage. Dont over feed
them so that they're always up for a bit of fresh human.

 

Good points, thanks. Looking at what is available I suspect I will be
able to deter oppotunists and *maybe* raise the minimum time to get
into my garage to the point where a keen scrote thinks it's not worth
the bother.

 

Good idea.

Ye-es, but then loads of scrotes will break into garages anyway, just
to see if there's something worth nicking.

I'd opt for both, if you're being serious about things. Also, one of
the neatest ideas I've ever heard of (assuming you have power in your
garage) is to stash a baby alarm in there and keep the other end in the
house. That way, you'll hear immediately if any cnut breaks in,
especially at night. They're amazingly sensitive and loud, baby alarms
(as you'd expect, I suppose).

Actually, I suppose the techies could go further with a baby alarm. How
easy would it be, for example, to connect the "slave" side to a
telephone, or better still, a computer, rigged to send a message to
your mobile, or to dial 999, or detonate landmines, or something of
that ilk? Paging the techies!

Actually, what you *really* want are those robo-sentry guns, as in The
Director's Cut of Aliens.

 

Left hand threads.

 

TOG@toil wrote

Video, sent in one second bursts off-site somewhere and a tape telling
them to, "look into the camera please."

 

Very thick wooden garage door, metal handle wired to the mains via a switch.

Switch on.

Go to bed.

Wake at the chip-shop noise, check black heap outside garage, get up ten
minutes early the next day to clear up.

 

I'm gonna. Next question. Good bolts to go into the
ground/concrete/tarmac. What kind of bolts do you use, how do you stop
the yobs just undoing them? (I've got a ground anchor already without
bolts.)

 

I think you can buy pre-stressed ones that shear if somebody tries to
undo them. I know you can buy "one-way headed" screws, large ones,
because I've got them holding a security metal loop to the side of my
house. A shackle lock goes through it, and round a chunk of my bike
trailer.

Trailers, any trailers, are a pikey-magnet. Some cnuts tried to nick it
a couple of years ago, only to find that (at that time) it was shackled
to a dead Honda CB500T, which made a helluva noise as it fell over.

 

Just don't forget that it's in there when you start discussing stuff
with your mates in the garage while the wife is in the house.
Especially
if it's stuff you didn't want her to hear...

 

Rawlbolts and weld the heads to the anchorplate.

--

Dave

GS850 x2 XS650SE / SE 6a

I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

 

"TOG@toil "

I *liked* those!

 

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I had a bolt in the middle of my garage door (motrax thing) and had
beefed up the security inside with bits of 4x2 attached to the frame to
brace it.

Some cunts tried to break in but fortunately this stopped them. I'd
'hidden' it from sight by placing an old cut-away car battery in front
of the door but this didn't help.

After the break in I added two heavy duty staple-hasp type things
designed for secure shed locks etc., I buried half of these in concrete
with the hinge just above the concrete and meeting the staple (U shaped
bit). This plus 3 high security locks is my (current) solution.

I'd like to electrify the garage but suspect I'd forget about it one
morning.

 

This is what would stop me doing something like that, as well.

 

Presumably the fact that it was attached to a CB500T was enough to put them
off...

 

Pedalbin says...

I have a theory that they were trying to nick the marvellous CB500T and
didn't realise that some twat had chained some shite old scrap trailer
to it.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.