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Not sure if there's a thread for communal bike storage(couldn't find one) but here we go. Should maybe been in stolen thread but hey ho.
We live in a shiny new block run by Circle. In our ground floor car park we have big walk in bike cages with those godawful double deck racks same as some stations in town. The ones that are nearly impossible to lock safely unless you have a pair of d's and a chain for each bike.
Came home from work today to find a note from a neighbor saying that their Brompton had been nabbed from our cage. It was only locked with a shitty cable iirc.
Found out that all the cameras down there are dummies, the fob-actuated magnetic locks are weak as heck and that you can remove each section of rack by undoing 2 bolts(non-security head) so if you wanted you could quietly load a van and chop all the locks at home!
All of this would be made a lot more secure if they fixed the gates to the car park which have been stuck open for ages. That's another saga tho.
Has anyone else had similar experience with new buildings and how to lobby for a solution that's fit for purpose? I will see if they'll allow me to fit some ground staples between the racks we use and get a length of 16mm chain. At the mo it's a motly collection of mini d's, fugs and 10mm chain securing our bikes. We have 8 in total so have bought the valuable ones into the flat and used the remaining locks to redouble the efforts on the commuters..
Rambling rant over..