Securing Bikes in Your House

[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.

[Veronica]

How about alarming your house?

Veronica

[marni]

you could go the gun route- bring your bike into the house, remove the wheels and store them in one locked cabinet or closet, remove the seat and store it in a locked cabinet elsewhere and then take the frame, lock it to something large and immoveable and store it in a secure third locked location and then alarm your house. It depends on how much your bike (s) are worth.

My daughter lives in austin but hwat she has is a clunker so she is not too worried although I have convinced her to bring the bike in off her balconey, take the wheels off and store them in her car trunk and secure the frame to the beframe as she can't afford to lose it and replace it at this point in her life.