Oufy MTB (Roadie) Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Last year the gardener stole my bike. We have 3 bikes and the two were chained to a pole in the yard and the MTB wasn't, and the oke took off with it. How long did take him? 5 seconds? I have a new home, fully alarmed, spikes, electric fencing, garage that locks, automatic gates, CCTV, motion sensors etc. But the bikes in the garage are still chained with a combination lock against shelving. Even the bike in the house is chained. Take my other appliances, but not my bike. Cmon folks, I see too many times that bikes got stolen out of the garage, lets not make it too easy for them. Its hard earned cash that can be swiped in 10 seconds. These crooks are super fast, whilst doing some DIY or gardening, you go inside to fetch something and come out to find your bike gone.
velomonatiCT Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 A noble try OufyAs well intentioned as your advice is you are wasting your time in cape town capetonians are either very well insured or quite mad bikes get taken off car racks every week and on the weekend there was a very shiny full sus(with a race number casually left on it ) on a very shiny bike rack on a huge SUV parked outside vida café with NO LOCK... people never learn
Smurfy Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 I lock the bike to the bike rack, that is locked onto my towbar. The bikes are then tied to one another by strapping the wheels together. I then run a 2m cable through the bike rack, frames and wheels. Take a pic every time to prove that it was locked and secured. If they manage to take it I can prove that it was locked. I never leave the bikes unattended. More than that I cant do. We might have to employ armed guards at races soon the way things are going in Cape Town.PS. Will lock the bikes up in the garage as well, never thought of that as I live in a security complex.
Rocket-Boy Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 This weekend I saw a nice new S-works Epic on the back of a car in a shopping centre and it wasnt locked and no one was in the car.Cant tell if some people want insurance claims or just think it wont get stolen.
Grebel Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 This weekend I saw a nice new S-works Epic on the back of a car in a shopping centre and it wasnt locked and no one was in the car.Cant tell if some people want insurance claims or just think it wont get stolen. "It'll never happen to me" until it does....
nickc Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Last year the gardener stole my bike. We have 3 bikes and the two were chained to a pole in the yard and the MTB wasn't, and the oke took off with it. How long did take him? 5 seconds? I have a new home, fully alarmed, spikes, electric fencing, garage that locks, automatic gates, CCTV, motion sensors etc. But the bikes in the garage are still chained with a combination lock against shelving. Even the bike in the house is chained. Take my other appliances, but not my bike. Cmon folks, I see too many times that bikes got stolen out of the garage, lets not make it too easy for them. Its hard earned cash that can be swiped in 10 seconds. These crooks are super fast, whilst doing some DIY or gardening, you go inside to fetch something and come out to find your bike gone. Hope he is now your ex - gardener !!
Shebeen Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Last year the gardener stole my bike. We have 3 bikes and the two were chained to a pole in the yard and the MTB wasn't, and the oke took off with it. How long did take him? 5 seconds? I have a new home, fully alarmed, spikes, electric fencing, garage that locks, automatic gates, CCTV, motion sensors etc. But the bikes in the garage are still chained with a combination lock against shelving. Even the bike in the house is chained. Take my other appliances, but not my bike. Cmon folks, I see too many times that bikes got stolen out of the garage, lets not make it too easy for them. Its hard earned cash that can be swiped in 10 seconds. These crooks are super fast, whilst doing some DIY or gardening, you go inside to fetch something and come out to find your bike gone.hmm, close to home.* here's what i do. i have my bikes in the garage. they are racked up against the wall, and locked together(four bikes, with three chains and three discus locks). sure the okes could crowbar the garage door open, they could bust the cupboard lock and find my angle grinder. but there's one thing they won't have. a front wheel - all my front wheels are inside the house. so unless they can wheelie, they will battle to getaway. *had a full bike stolen from inside the house last week. proving my theory that they've been safer in the garage all along for the past 4 years!
Dazshell Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 I drilled a moor se Rawl plug with an eyelet into the wall below my bike rack in the garage and threaded a combination lock steel cable through it. Quick and easy to lock after every ride. Have one on my car rack too. A friend was driving through Umtata in Saturday morning traffic on route to Cape Town some time back with her bike on the back of her car. By the time she got through the traffic, the bike was gone!
DIPSLICK Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 i would rather have a guy take my bike in my garage that isnt locked down, than have him come into my house to "ask" me or my wife for his drinking/tik moneyI love my bikes as much as the next oke, but if my bike which is loose inside my house or garage is a easy target/distraction he can take it and leave my family alone, Shebeen is still here typing cause im ASSuming he didnt interact with the plank who took his bike, if his bike was locked good chances he would have come looking for other forms of "income"
velomonatiCT Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 i would rather have a guy take my bike in my garage that isnt locked down, than have him come into my house to "ask" me or my wife for his drinking/tik moneyI love my bikes as much as the next oke, but if my bike which is loose inside my house or garage is a easy target/distraction he can take it and leave my family alone, Shebeen is still here typing cause im ASSuming he didnt interact with the plank who took his bike, if his bike was locked good chances he would have come looking for other forms of "income" so by that logic you should leave your bike on the front lawn and then they wont come inside the garage either .....? Just asking you know ......
Oufy MTB (Roadie) Posted July 2, 2015 Author Posted July 2, 2015 I think you get various levels of skirke. The ones looking to grab and run, the opportunistic ones, the ones that are eyeing that bike laying in the garage. They go after low hanging fruit and we can make it difficult for them. For those okes that are in your house asking for wealth because your bike was chained in the garage, trust me those okes are not after your bike. These okes are on a next level and coming for more, those are the real scary ones
J∆kk∆ls Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Mmmm...Got me thinking. There are some sexy bike locks out there.
DIPSLICK Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 so by that logic you should leave your bike on the front lawn and then they wont come inside the garage either .....? Just asking you know ...... its the south africian in me thinking decoy
eddy Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 its the south africian in me thinking decoy Decoy, or lure ?
rock Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 my friend* has the expensive bikes chained up and then one cheapie accessible for a quick snatch......
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