Thieving B*****d Scum

[fossyant]

My garage is like fort knox. It's crap, takes me an age to get in.

I can get the commuter out quick, but need to unlock the ice bike. But getting to the two 'nice' old bikes is a farkin ar$e. My best bike has been out once this year. Not good.

 

[DaveReading]

Up and over garage doors can be iffy .I secure mine with alock and chain threaded through door cross member and a door support.

Another low-tech solution to securing an up-and-over door is, if you have a short ladder or one of those 3-way stepladder thingys, to wedge one end under the top lip of the door with the other end on the floor. There's no way, short of destroying the door, that you can get it open from the outside.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Sorry to hear this..i have just checked my insurance for the what if?.
Im very keen on security etc..but the trouble with organised crooks is they come prepared.
cordless angle grinders and drills crow bar bolt croppers ..chains are like butter to a diamond blade

I always worry about being followed home with the bike rack..

 

[Hitchington]

Bad luck Kestevan. Hope everything gets replaced.

 

[Sailorsi]

https://www.bikeregister.com/ May be worth listing your bikes on here then marking them as stolen. The Police keep an eye on this if a bike is found. Hope it works out for you and they are returned/ insurance pays up.

 

[Drago]

Chains are very noise butter to a diamond blade. The more you do, the longer it takes, the more noise they make, the more likely they will fail, give up, or else find a softer target.

When one is playing poker there are no certainties, but one increases ones chance of winning by playing every card in the deck - "they'll turn up with a Goldfinger Laser and chop the house in half within seconds and use a Chinook to lift the bikes away" is no excuse not to employ a particular security device or tactic.

Register your bikes on www.immobilise.com, which is the only such database that is nationally endorsed by the Dibble. there are other such sites, but the danger is that if the bikes cross the county line the next police force won't use it and may never make the connection if the bikes turn up on their patch.

 

[nickyboy]

Really bad news Kes, hope you can get a good result one way or the other soon

My strategy (well, Mrs N's strategy really) is to fill the garage so full of junk that a thief could never find anything of value in there

 

[ColinJ]

My strategy (well, Mrs N's strategy really) is to fill the garage so full of junk that a thief could never find anything of value in there

That used to be my strategy inside the house, but unfortunately I had a good tidy up for a recent gathering of the clan so the bikes are easy to get at now!

 

[mjr]

Immobilise is untrustworthy and has published its database recently. Only list bikes there after they're stolen IMO. I'd treat bike register the same. Post them to stolen-bikes.co.uk too.

 

[Mile195]

Immobilise is untrustworthy and has published its database recently. Only list bikes there after they're stolen IMO. I'd treat bike register the same. Post them to stolen-bikes.co.uk too.

Do you have any link to more detail about this and exactly what they've published? I can't remember but I think I may have registered with them years ago. I'd quite like to unregister if this really is the case...

 

[mjr]

Do you have any link to more detail about this and exactly what they've published? I can't remember but I think I may have registered with them years ago. I'd quite like to unregister if this really is the case...

https://grahamcluley.com/2015/01/immobilise-national-property-register-data/ should have the info for you.

 

[speccy1]

I know it`s a bit late, but I have started parking my car right up close (almost touching) to the garage door - if the theiving scum want to get in they will have to break into my car first, just a small thing but will hinder their progress.

Sorry to hear about your burglary, hope the end result comes good

 

[Mile195]

https://grahamcluley.com/2015/01/immobilise-national-property-register-data/ should have the info for you.

Interesting stuff. Sounds like they've fixed it now, but even so it does demonstrate complete ineptitude with regards to security. The fact that they needed someone to tell them about this problem, rather than realising themselves that it would be a problem concerns me greatly.

I'd agree with what you say - I think this is a site to use only once it's already gone missing.

 

[Buck]

That's sickening @Kestevan

I remember seeing your advert for junior's old bike as well and you've just got back on your bike after your op too. (Did you advertise his old bike anywhere else?)

I hope they find them but as is always the case with theft, it's a slim chance / luck for the police. Hopefully the insurance will not be too nit picky in sorting this out with you.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I saw a woman i know out on a different bike tonight. She told me her bike had been nicked on Sunday. She leaves it in the front garden unchained and her house is right next to a pub. I reckon someone didn't fancy the walk home so they "borrowed it". Why not just leave your bike in the house?