Security in your garage?

[Sargent]

Wondering if anyone has additional 'security' or locks whilst their recumbents are stored in garage?

I was thinking of something chained to the wall

Any suggestions or ideas?

 

[flake99please]

Mine lives (folded) under a stair cupboard, and is chained to a ground and wall anchor. The cupboard door also has 5 lever deadlock. It was a mandatory requirement for my insurance.

 

[raleighnut]

Ground Anchor.

 

[gaijintendo]

Make your bike less attractive to thieves by riding a recumbent.

 

[User269]

Make your bike less attractive to thieves by riding a recumbent.

You beat me to it. I was going to ask "people steal recumbents??"

 

[numbnuts]

I have wall anchors all over my garage like this one with chain and padlocks

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Security...075678?hash=item3b0d3b87de:g:G9AAAOSwx95a-xf4

and alarm disc locks

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOTORCYC...471273?hash=item1c7f56ada9:g:zIQAAOSwhQhYxkn6

and garage locks like this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACK-ga...287122?hash=item3a6c8d0fd2:g:EqkAAOxyBXNSW-5R

and two of these

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enfield-...819865?hash=item33caaf5359:g:x-UAAOSwKMRa6gxi

Like it ot not you can not stop them, but you can slow them down.....hopefully

 

[classic33]

Try a krank Alarm. Just don't forget it's there.

 

[classic33]

You beat me to it. I was going to ask "people steal recumbents??"

They do.

 

[Sargent]

Thanks everyone

Very true. Only ridden my trike a handful of times, but plenty of weird looks.

 

[Time Waster]

Recumbent under a tarp in the garden with a d lock or a hip lock chain type lock through the rear triangle and wheel only. No ground anchor or Sheffield stand or anything. The garden is actually a backyard with a passageway outside the back gate that people do use. The yard walls are low enough to see into the yard.

Do you think I need anything else? I reckon I'm OK. Had one break in in the nearly 20 years I've lived here and that was in a side street. The house that was robbed was lived in by some ppl rumoured to be dodgy with money issues. The burglary was dodgy to say the least. Local thinking seems to be it was an insurance scam.

So basically a very low incidence of burglary. Are you jealous?

PS I once went out for half an hour and left my front door wide open. It's like the old days of unlocked doors!

 

[voyager]

With the new generation of power tools NOTHING Is SAFE anymore , £120 buys a battery tool that will say goodbye to most locks , its frightening what wicked tools are now in circulation, gone in 60 seconds springs to mine .
If you value it make it difficult for anyone to lift it , but if someone wants it bad enough , it will be GONE.

Later's Emma

 

[classic33]

Thanks everyone

Very true. Only ridden my trike a handful of times, but plenty of weird looks.

Those you'll just have to get used to as you pedal along.

 

[gavroche]

A good guard dog is the best deterrent I think.

 

[voyager]

A good guard dog is the best deterrent I think.

riding shotgun and sleeping on the trike seat

 

[raleighnut]

A good guard dog is the best deterrent I think.

You'd be surprised at how many people have their dog stolen along with anything else the burglars fancy.