Fortunate enough to have a brick garage with hefty metal door to put my shiney shiney in. I use a garage secure bolted in front of the door. Also there is another door you have to get over before you get round the back to them. Also have a shed alarm and finally we have a dog who is pretty good on letting us know if anyone comes up the drive (even at night). I'm not naive enough to think this would keep somebody who really really wanted them out, but I feel I'm having a good attempt.
My question is around the fact that I don’t then bother with locking them up, as I feel if anyone who has gone to that much trouble, they’ll have the tools to get the locks off pretty quick.
So (the piont at last) has anyone had their shed/garage/etc broken into and then had the little shits abandon their plans at the sight of a D-lock and ground anchor? i.e should I stopping being lazy and get some.
the oxford anchor is cheap and easy to install (although you need to buy a large dia masonry bit if you dont already own one or can borrow one)
I have one that I daisy chain chains and d-locks off. I have as much faith in the system as pretty much any else but it's relatively inexpensive. D-locks at £60-80 a pop are the pricey bits.
At uni my housemates and I cut a hole in the bottom of the shed, installed 1/2 ton of concrete and a 30mm diameter steel u-bar to d-lock the bikes to.
People tried to steal the bikes, but weren't very successful. 😆
I did similar to glenh (maybe not a 1/2 ton of concrete!) with the same results - someone ripped the roof off the shed and got in, but didn't get the bikes.
ChrisL on here had thieves in his shed the other week, they had an ineffectual go at breaking a lock then gave up, luckily.
Still, no amount of ground anchor is any use if your locks are rubbish. And if the value of the parts is good enough, the thief might just cut the frame instead. But it definately does help.
I live in a low crime area. but still; gate is tall and locked, shed door is locked, and the bikes are locked to the floor of the shed (mostly) and if they get through that lot there are the fearsome Guinea Pigs to contend with...
Might be worth checking with your house insurance- mine wouldn't cover the bike unless it was locked to a solid wall inside the garage
had the shed broken into 3 times,
first time no lock on the bike and they got stolen lucky insurance paid up
went and got a shed shackle and good lock and the last two times they've got into the shed but left the bikes alone
def worth getting as much security as possible they might have the tools to get into your shed garage but not to get the locks off
Yes.
My garage got broken into earlier in the year - they prised off two good quality bolts / padlocks.
The bikes were locked to a ground anchor with a motorbike chain, so they got nothing.
deffo worth it.
Okay advise taken, I've ordered some ground achers and chunky locks.
What MB have a huge lock review this month.
But Singletrack is still least biased and better grounded.
But Singletrack is still least biased and better [b]grounded[/b]
pun intended? 😆
It's quite a good lock test as well, one of the first I've seen that uses convincing real world attacks, and it happy to give some locks stinking marks... And doesn't fall into the trap of using "the tools that thieves use for most thefts"
The industry says "It's rare for thieves to use large tools", which is true, but only because most bikes are secured with toy locks that can be cut with small tools- thieves just frequently won't bother to attack a decent lock as they can walk down the road and find a decent bike secured with a £5 tesco lock. It makes the crime stats largely meaningless, and also badly skews testing- most independant tests use the tools that are used for this majority of thefts, which are NOT the tools which are used against a properly secured bike.
It's a bit like saying "Most houses are broken into by someone throwing a brick through a window" then testing door locks by throwing bricks at them. "This lock resisted 20 minutes of having bricks thrown at it, sold secure gold!"