Alarm?
Alarm?
I have to keep bikes under a shelter in our back garden. Now our street is being targeted by bike thieves (again), confident of course there are no coppers about at night.I have the bikes locked with very heavy chain and a newyorkfahgeddaboutit u-lock, but it seems to me some sort of alarm on a leash or trembler might help too. Anyone tried this? It may sound fussy but I think we have about 4 grand’s worth of bikes out there.
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Kabrus.
Very loud alarm padlocks.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TU0FNNA/ ... 8664698453
So loud, it hurts.
Just touch them, and they beep, touch again, and they beep some more, then touch just once more and all hell breaks loose.
The beeps give you time to fumble with the key.
Very loud alarm padlocks.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TU0FNNA/ ... 8664698453
So loud, it hurts.
Just touch them, and they beep, touch again, and they beep some more, then touch just once more and all hell breaks loose.
The beeps give you time to fumble with the key.
Mick F. Cornwall
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I've a motorcycle alarm wire through the expensive bikes in the shed, with the alarm unit screwed onto the brick side wall (and you have to unlock it to unscrew it or remove the battery). Too many bikes get nicked from sheds and back gardens not to. I think the alarm unit was £30 about 7 years ago.
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In addition to anything else, you may consider what might be termed a passive alarm. Gravel is an example of what I mean. If you are trying to tip-toe about, nothing makes more racket than a gravel path. Depending on what type of boundaries you have, consider topping them with some sort of trellis with thorny bushes: strong enough to resist removal but not strong enough to support anybody climbing.
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I used to have something like this inside my garage to prevent my motorbike being stolen. It can be situated pointing down so it would be activated by someone entering but high enough so it couldn't be reached.
https://www.therange.co.uk/diy/safety-a ... rm/#459553
https://www.therange.co.uk/diy/safety-a ... rm/#459553
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thirdcrank wrote:In addition to anything else, you may consider what might be termed a passive alarm. Gravel is an example of what I mean. If you are trying to tip-toe about, nothing makes more racket than a gravel path. Depending on what type of boundaries you have, consider topping them with some sort of trellis with thorny bushes: strong enough to resist removal but not strong enough to support anybody climbing.
Our boundaries were a Roman wall built 2000 years ago, but then a Yorkshire general had them reduced to rubble during a bit of an argument in 1648, so we are above the gardens behind us but only separated by a hedge, which is all that will grow in the Yorkshireman's rubble. I think your advice is good and will try (again) to convince my wife about Rosa Rugosa at that end.
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mjr wrote:I've a motorcycle alarm wire through the expensive bikes in the shed, with the alarm unit screwed onto the brick side wall (and you have to unlock it to unscrew it or remove the battery). Too many bikes get nicked from sheds and back gardens not to. I think the alarm unit was £30 about 7 years ago.
You don't have the name by any chance? I have a shed next to where the bikes live with a brick wall, so this would work. I like Mick's alarmed padlocks too. One each for the shed doors - I have two doors and four padlocks so I just need to replace two.
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I don't suppose anything is perfect, but a combination of different things must usually be better than placing all your faith in one. Remember also that the baddies won't be impressed by your strongest points: they will look for weaknesses and ruthlessly exploit them, unless things are weaker nearby.
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thirdcrank wrote:I don't suppose anything is perfect, but a combination of different things must usually be better than placing all your faith in one. Remember also that the baddies won't be impressed by your strongest points: they will look for weaknesses and ruthlessly exploit them, unless things are weaker nearby.
No biting on the Yorkshireman? I don't blame you. Thanks again for advice
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nez dans le guidon wrote:mjr wrote:I've a motorcycle alarm wire through the expensive bikes in the shed, with the alarm unit screwed onto the brick side wall (and you have to unlock it to unscrew it or remove the battery). Too many bikes get nicked from sheds and back gardens not to. I think the alarm unit was £30 about 7 years ago.
You don't have the name by any chance? I have a shed next to where the bikes live with a brick wall, so this would work. I like Mick's alarmed padlocks too. One each for the shed doors - I have two doors and four padlocks so I just need to replace two.
I had to look but mine is one of the oval ones from http://lockalarm.com/products/
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk
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Tea leafs go for the weakest point. At uni my daughter had to leave her bike on the street outside her shared flat. She used a u lock between frame and the rainwater down pipe. Came out one morning to find bike gone and the drainpipes ripped off the wall. Fortunately it wasn't a posh bike, but still caused a lot of aggravation and expense for the owners of the flat.
At the last count:- Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, Dawes Kingpin X3, Raleigh 20 stowaway X2, 1965 Moulton deluxe, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, Rudge Bi frame folder, Longstaff trike conversion on a Giant XTC 840
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rjb wrote:Tea leafs go for the weakest point. At uni my daughter had to leave her bike on the street outside her shared flat. She used a u lock between frame and the rainwater down pipe. Came out one morning to find bike gone and the drainpipes ripped off the wall. Fortunately it wasn't a posh bike, but still caused a lot of aggravation and expense for the owners of the flat.
I did something similar in my last year at uni, but I used the soil pipe, which was I figured was heavier - probably cast iron - and would have been rather unpleasant if they'd broken that at the wrong moment
The bike survived that year unstolen, same as it survived a year overnighting in an open-on-two-sides campus bike shelter as well as being locked by the office block in the day.
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk
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It was an old cast iron drainpipe. But it didn't stop them.
At the last count:- Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, Dawes Kingpin X3, Raleigh 20 stowaway X2, 1965 Moulton deluxe, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, Rudge Bi frame folder, Longstaff trike conversion on a Giant XTC 840
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Thanks for advice all. I have invested via amazon in a couple of alarmed padlocks and am going to figure out which of the leash type alarms will fit my setup. Thefts around here are often committed by people desperate for drug money and I’m hoping loud alarms wills scare them off.
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A few years ago Gardener's Question Time did a special on plants to protect properties from thieves, etc.
You should be able to get info by searching their BBC Radio 4 website.
I remember that pyracantha was mentioned. I have one (not for protection), it is evergreen, lots of red berries for show and the birds. It's a b...... to prune and would keep out anything less thank a tank.
There you go, a new hobby as well.
Enjoy
You should be able to get info by searching their BBC Radio 4 website.
I remember that pyracantha was mentioned. I have one (not for protection), it is evergreen, lots of red berries for show and the birds. It's a b...... to prune and would keep out anything less thank a tank.
There you go, a new hobby as well.
Enjoy