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I'm surprised the thieves cut the locks instead of the super thin metal racks
I'm not--it's a lot easier to wheel bikes without locks still attached.
It sounds like mainly a design issue, then, so the door clearly needs beefing up, but of course that won't change the apparent fact of how easy it is to access once the gate is climbed (and how easy it is to get back out of the gate once inside?).
Oliver Schick-
I'm not--it's a lot easier to wheel bikes without locks still attached.
True.
It sounds like mainly a design issue, then, so the door clearly needs beefing up, but of course that won't change the apparent fact of how easy it is to access once the gate is climbed (and how easy it is to get back out of the gate once inside?).
Once over the gate you can press the button to get out. You need to do some climbing to get to the bike room but it's not hard. They've been talking about putting spikes or whatever on top for ages.
Anyway, not much to be done now, keep your loved ones/bikes close!
jonnylamb
Yeah for sure, and new developments are clearly shiny targets. In this case they climbed over the front gate and just kicked the bike room door hard until it opened as it was only secured magnetically. On a similar topic, the actual bike racks in the room were total garbage and I'm surprised the thieves cut the locks instead of the super thin metal racks.
In the past I've always tried to keep my bike indoors (also for maintenance reasons) but it's hard to convince one's significant other to keep many bikes in a small London flat!
I counted the broken locks on the ground and it seems they made off with 12 bikes last night!!!