Best system for securing bikes?

[Furyos J]

Hi all,
i came home to a scene that made my heart skip a beat last nite, after work pulled up the driveway to see my back door caved in, almost broken in half. Looks like to house alarm has scared the thieving bastards off (its real loud, you almost cant be in the house when it goes off) as we have found nothing missing so far...... glad they didnt get to my garage, my cbr, cr, trx400, and plymouth fury were all still sitting peacefully (garage alarmed aswell). Took day off work today,waiting for the door to be fixed, sitting with a metal bar by the door in case they come back for another go.
This has got me thinking about making the bikes more secure (the mopar fury is duel immobilized, and is the only one in the country like it,and is very well known in the north island hotrod scene, so i dont see that being targeted) but the bikes are all common hondas that could be sold easy, i have chassis numbers recorded, any other precautions i could be taking?
what do you guys think of those anchor points you dynabolt into concrete floor and then chain the bikes together to it? Is that the best way to secure the dirt bikes? Ive always thought thieves could find my tool shelves and use my angle grinder or bold cutters or somthing.

[dogsnbikes]

Bugger about the attemped burg

Your already doing more than most have thought about doing....

If your worried about them gaining access too your tools,just have too secure the tools even more......anchor points are good but you need to go through the chassis otherwise if its just the wheels they will just unbolt and leave the wheels.

at the end of the day if they want it bad enough they will take.....

[F5 Dave]

bolted to ground & chained, try keep the lock off the ground so hard to sledge hammer. & yes don't keep the angle grinder in same location. Bit of a hassle but it is the tool that will defeat anything. Steel reinforce door (angle isn't pretty but is light, cheap & strong) & pins on hinge side. Thick ply over any windows with lots of screws from inside.

[Crasherfromwayback]

bolted to ground & chained, try keep the lock off the ground so hard to sledge hammer. & yes don't keep the angle grinder in same location. .

Great advice right there!

[Spearfish]

Its a bastard when you find a door open, the blood just seems to drain until it rises with a the red mist.

I think its a mix of dont let them in and make it harder if they do.
The shed is probably easier than the house. Some hi tensile reinforcing bar welded into a grid and bolted will make the windows difficult. Sliding padbolts at the base of the garage door with help from some metal straps over the tracks.
Then is just the side door. I ve seen a typical sort of garage door with a flat metal sheet fitted over it, high quality locks on one side and pins that prevent the hinges being forced, all that and some angle bar reinforcing the door jambs.

This particular garage was protecting an modified hsv and shyt loads of engineering gear (a lath, milling machine endless hand tools etc).
He never was burgled but there were dents in the door from an attempt, sadly the car went one arvo after diving to a dairy on the way home.. leaving the thing running.. ya have to wonder

[motor_mayhem]

My bike was bolted to the ground and it still went. I'd probably go with bolted to the ground so they can't move it quickly AND a loud alarm so they don't have any time to spend on it.

[willytheekid]

Glad to hear/read the bastards didn't get anything

So hard nowdays to protect your gear, sounds like your alarm did its job well

Bike theives!, SCUM!! ....is it STILL illegal to turn them into compost??

[Bikemad]

you might want to add some "video survailence" stickers round the place as well

[bsasuper]

you might want to add some "video survailence" stickers round the place as well

Or better still get some, I have the whole property covered with hidden hi res cameras.The house/shed is very secure, and any footage of scum trying to break in goes on the net/cops desk.

I've captured a few suspects looking around, but since they didnt actually do anything, I've just kept their mug shots on file.

[baptist]

[QUOTE Bike theives!, SCUM!! ....is it STILL illegal to turn them into compost??[/QUOTE]

Yes, sorry... but only if you get caught...

My bike is pretty sorry to be honest but it is mine so I chain it up, wherever it is, and when at home I keep it downstairs, I also have a large dog that has access to where it is parked The beware of the dog sign and his barking keeps most people the other side of my gate, meter readers, courier drivers, JW's (sorry edbear ).

OP, glad the alarm did its job and you still have the bikes to be asking about.

[Furyos J]

Cool, thanks heaps for the advice. I am limited to what i can do, as we rent at the mo, but the landlord is cool as, and would not mind floor anchors and window bars etc on his garage. I think that is the route i will go, 1 or 2 floor anchors and keep my cutting tools in the lock box. All my things are insured, but id rather keep them then have to go through the claim process.
Had the police round this morn, they said there has been a huge spike in smash n grab burgs in the newlands/jville area, targeting flatscreen tellys and laptops.2 breakins in our street in 2 weeks, and reports of a boy racer style car with hoodies up sifting up n down our street. No attemps were made on the garage, so i think it has been a random burg, rather then a targeted steal to order style. Those hoodie fullas better not run into me down our street,

[hayd3n]

imho best way to secure your bike is by riding it and only stoping for gas

[HenryDorsetCase]

If i had time and opportunity, I would use tinsnips on the metal cladding of your garage to cut myself a doorway, then a portable (battery) sawzall to cut enough studs and dwangs till I've got my door, bypassing your grilles over windows and reinforced doors. Then my battery powered grinder will get me through your chains and whatnot, and I am gone. I've backed the van down your drive: (its white, and wearing stolen plates, and I am wearing overalls with logos on them, which are stolen). I wave to your neighbours, Hi Missus!, and look like I am a tradie doing some work you've commissioned on your house (if anyone asks: they wont).

The only thing that would put me off is your big dog or dogs, or an alarm I can't turn off.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Cool, thanks heaps for the advice. I am limited to what i can do, as we rent at the mo, but the landlord is cool as, and would not mind floor anchors and window bars etc on his garage. I think that is the route i will go, 1 or 2 floor anchors and keep my cutting tools in the lock box. All my things are insured, but id rather keep them then have to go through the claim process.
Had the police round this morn, they said there has been a huge spike in smash n grab burgs in the newlands/jville area, targeting flatscreen tellys and laptops.2 breakins in our street in 2 weeks, and reports of a boy racer style car with hoodies up sifting up n down our street. No attemps were made on the garage, so i think it has been a random burg, rather then a targeted steal to order style. Those hoodie fullas better not run into me down our street,

make up some road spikes, form a posse with your neighbours, and even if you get the wrong crew of boi ricers, so what? Whipping them on general principle is a good thing!

[imdying]

If i had time and opportunity, I would use tinsnips on the metal cladding of your garage to cut myself a doorway, then a portable (battery) sawzall to cut enough studs and dwangs till I've got my door, bypassing your grilles over windows and reinforced doors. Then my battery powered grinder will get me through your chains and whatnot, and I am gone.

Well, not gone exactly. Because whilst you've been fucking around doing that, my house has sent me a PXT over GPRS and I've come home, crept up on you, knocked you unconcious, then spent the next 6 weeks keeping you barely alive so I can torture you in ways that would make Andy McNabb vomit just thinking about them.

/edit: Having reread this, I would like to point out that this applies only to people who feel they have some sort of right to steal motorcycles from other people who actually own them, i.e. bike thieves, not the Right Honourable HenryDorsetCase himself