Securing Bikes in Your House

[Aggie_Ama]

Austin has been plagued by high end bike thefts lately. The most recent hit a friend and pried open his door, making off with all his bikes and bike tools. We would like to set up a system in our garage to store them but keep them secure. With our stable we don't have room to store in the house. We're at 5.5 bikes with eyes on a single speed and maybe a cross bike for me. DH has 3.5 (one is a single speed work in progress) and has a new mountain bike on order but won't be getting rid of his. In theory we could be nearing 9 some day in the not so far future.....

I am thinking somehow bolt racks to the ground using concrete anchors? Then getting a good heavy duty lock. That will at least make it more than a grab and go operation. Our house faces a busy street where we know many of the neighbors who don't work our hours. So we could easily have someone who knows what we got, we try not to let on the value but anyone who cared could figure it out.

[tangentgirl]

Stolen right from the house - that sucks.

You could get something like this if you can drill into the garage floor: http://www.outdoorbikeracks.net/Cust...c=BQ116%2D1005

Then lock your bikes to that.

[Biciclista]

when I go out of town I lock my bike inside the garage (not attached to anything, but with a Kryptonite D lock). That gives me a little confidence.
Bike thieves are lazy, if you make it a little difficult for them, they'll leave the best bikes behind and grab a junkier one.
I like the bolts into the concrete thing though!

[Eden]

when I go out of town I lock my bike inside the garage (not attached to anything, but with a Kryptonite D lock). That gives me a little confidence.
Bike thieves are lazy, if you make it a little difficult for them, they'll leave the best bikes behind and grab a junkier one.
I like the bolts into the concrete thing though!

Bike thieves sneer at a bike locked only to itself.... (ask me about the one I had stolen from a locked inside room at college. It was indoors in a room set aside for bike storage and had the frame locked to the front wheel with a U-lock). Since they can walk off with it and break the lock at their leisure its no problem - a nice angle grinder will make short work of the lock.

[Aggie_Ama]

Actually the ones hitting Austin are anything but lazy. Have known 3 people had them stolen when locked to their car. In one case they only took 1 or 3, the nicest one which was in the middle. The guy broken into they pried the door to his apartment open. I want to make it where if they try they will attract attention, they probably won't hit my area since I am way outside of town but they are definitely casing their targets. Local cops I have spoke to agree.

[smilingcat]

Keep an eye out for a person who doesn't fit at an event such as Crits, TTs. He may be using the events to find his targets. If I were the thief, I think that is where I would start or look at bike shops who are sponsoring training rides.

My bikes are locked in my bedroom. Never in garage. My sister had her mountain bike stolen out of the garage. And it was locked to something.