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Eh?
I won't even ride up my drive if there's anyone I don't know on our road. I'll just ride straight past our house and do a loop. Come back when they've gone.
^^ this
higgo - Member
molgrips - Member
I hope they are Almax.
You have Almax?
You lucky, lucky thing!
You feeling Randy then 😉
Well. Ime bike thieves want to run in and out within a few seconds. It'd take a good few minutes of sitting in someone's garage with a possibly police monitored alarm going off sawing away to get one bike out.Bolt croppers on a normal bike lock might be quick enough for a typical smash and grab burglary, but much longer than that and I would hope the scum would go looking for an easier target.
Yeah, I think you're right. At least this is what police officers advised me when I had my garage broken into. They said throw as many chains and locks around your bike as possible, even a bunch of cheapy ones to go with your expensive security chains. Anything that will potentially slow them down will ultimately put them off. The want to be in and out as quick as possible.
It takes me the past part of 20 minutes to chain up my bikes but it offers me a little piece of mind.
http://securityforbikes.com/ comes highly recommended, they were very helpful with advice and I'm seriously impressed with the stuff. I bought a ground anchor, 2m of 16mm chain and a closed shackle padlock.
My garage had part of the roof ripped off on Saturday night, they made off with my pub bike (the others live indoors with me). Hopefully the asbestos fibres will do their job in the long term.
I'm assuming they'll be back at some point; how to stop them ripping through the new roof?
Only moved into the house a few months ago. The perils of having outside buildings!
[b]molgrips[/b] - Member
I hope they are Almax.
[b]higgo[/b] - Member
You have Almax?
You lucky, lucky thing!
[b]MrOvershoot[/b] - Member
You feeling Randy then
Randy is good....
They will come back in a cpl of weeks, have a good look round then take a chance if they think your are in bed or out of the house. We got done twice in 8 mth both times they were seen on CCTV and house alarms went off, second time took them over an hr to get in. Best bet is a baby monitor next to your bed and one in side the garage, alarm and make sure they are locked up, also pille stuff up in front of the bikes so they have to move stuff.
My bikes are no longer kept at home Because of this. I pay £20 per mth to keep them at a secure lock up with 24hr security.