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Looking at updating the security in the garage. Looking at loose chains and locks as no room to install ground anchors or to the wall really.

Which brands etc do folks have experience with or recommend and are they 'sold secure'

Thank you.

Pragmasis:

https://securityforbikes.com/index.php

Almax or Oxford boss chain.
22mm chain links.
But word of warning, the chain is 1kg per link!
So moving it about it awkward and need a ground anchor big enough to accept it as some aren't.

No point just putting a chain on if it’s not fixed to something they can just pick it up or drag bike would look at garage door security etc if they want it they’ll take it it’s all about delaying tactics and noise my personal opinion obviously

Tractorwackyracer wrote: ↑Feb 28th, '24, 20:05 No point just putting a chain on if it’s not fixed to something they can just pick it up or drag bike would look at garage door security etc if they want it they’ll take it it’s all about delaying tactics and noise my personal opinion obviously

Will agree about noise and getting noticed.

Search "Bisley alarm mine" for some interesting notification devices tee hee hee.

Multiple small locks, disk locks etc. Don't have to be great, just have to be time consuming and Annoying.
Also, from your garage, a baby monitor. Transmit from garage to house very easily. You'll hear them before they know what's going on.

Personally I have chosen to go a slightly different approach. I went to the local DIY shop found a huge great chain with a plastic cover over it got a whopping great padlock and it was so cheap I got 2 and put one round the back wheel and the frame and then the 2nd one round the front wheel just for a visual deterrent then put the bike in a locked garage and then fit the bike with a S5 Stealth GPS tracker just incase

I have garage door defender, heavy ground anchor and various gold rated chains and locks. Then some photographic evidence of it being used.

Then surrounded garage with window twitching pensioner neighbours.

Will agree about noise and getting noticed.

Search "Bisley alarm mine" for some interesting notification devices tee hee hee.
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Going to get me a couple of these. Just to stictch some mates up if nothing else. Look out!!!

For garage alarms consider using something like the ring video doorbells, though the ebay brands are much better value.

They have night vision and movement detection, so if anything moves in your garage you get a phone call and can then look at the live video to see what's happening in there. You can set detection zones and also time periods to avoid false detection alarms.

But you don't have anything worth nicking

Red5 wrote: ↑Aug 17th, '24, 07:26 Will agree about noise and getting noticed.

Search "Bisley alarm mine" for some interesting notification devices tee hee hee.

Going to get me a couple of these. Just to stictch some mates up if nothing else. Look out!!!
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But remember nick, do not put any live ammunition into the alarm mines.

Due to the amount of bikes going walkies I have upped my security game and have made it harder, but if they are determined still only a deterant not a guarantee.

Looks, chains, ground anchors, alarm and cctv are all good options.
Also if bike is in one place removing spindles is a sensible option as harder to move a bike with no wheels.

I have changed my situation now that i have 2 bikes in the garage and also an insurance requirement for sorn bike insurance.

I now have 2 ground anchors (1 of each bike) and i have 2 heavy duty certified Oxford locks with chunky Oxford matching padlocks. I have kept by DIY Heavy duty garden chains as a back up so each bike is double locked.

The road bike also had a disk lock (so that make 3 locks) and is protected by a Scorpion 5 tracker.

Hope that should keep them safe