Building an outdoor bike storage solution

Have you guys not heard of alarm mines?

Just hang them on the wall as 'art pieces'

try a ground anchor with a dlock perhaps, something like this

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Kryptonite_Stronghold_Surface_Ground_Anchor/5360009134/

I had the one with the fold up door.
It's a pain to put together but works really well.
As you could easily get to it down the side of the flat I also put a ground anchor inside it as a backup!
When we moved got the Asgard one instead which is better put together and feels a bit more substantial.

An outdoor storage solution is one thing. However, could it be that one of the reasons you're being asked to move the bikes outside is because your indoor storage method isn't good enough?

Have a look at this:

http://www.hackney-cyclists.org.uk/homebikepark/index.htm

wow awesome, i want one of these

Right. I'm now being told I can't keep my bikes inside any more. Our current (rubbish) wooden sheds are not secure enough for my bikes, so what do I need to build to make the bikes secure? Has anyone here built an outside bike store for 3/4 bikes plus tools, kids bikes, periphery, porn collection etc?

Advice etc much appreciated.

FJ

Who is telling you you can't keep the bikes indoors?
If it is your wife then you're screwed I suppose, but if it is a landlord, they may have no right to ask you to move them. I had a similar battle with my landlords, which resulted in the officious little witch who was threatening to seize our bikes being replaced.

wow awesome, i want one of these

It's an old problem. ;)

Can I just add my 2p, As Tommy rightly says, I have one of those fancy schmancy aluminium ones.

The Bikestore fits three bikes pretty easily, four at a push.

The wooden floor is probably worth it, if only to keep things away from damp concrete underneath. However it really doesn't offer much protection against atmospheric damp. As I'm into obsolete steel bikes that are 30-60 years old, this is a problem.

I only feel 'safe' using this as my garden is totally enclosed by gardens and buildings around it (i.e. there are no alleys or gaps in the terraces where intruders could easily climb in and across many gardens to mine).

Then again I don't use any locking mech on it, which are avaialable when you buy it, one or two 'hasps' with a fairly standard padlock - not exactly a fearsome deterrent. The hasp, I think - as I never fitted the one I got with it, works by securing the arms that allow you to lift the lid (they're attatched to springs inside). These arms are very lightweight aluminium, reckon I could get through those with a shite pocket hacksaw in about a minute. About ten seconds with a decent one.

All in all, not a decent secure place if you're feeling exposed to intruders, I wouldn't say.

I'm about to move house, and I will be taking it with me, as a temporary 'solution' (eeuch I hate that word). I am intending on building a proper lean to in the ginnel down the side of my new place. Which will essentially be a semi-permanent structure, and I'm intending on heating it in some way to keep damp down. And having proper locks on it! And blade wire! And a Somali pirate with an Uzi living in there.

This is, after all, London, my friend.

EDIT PS I really like the ground anchor idea.
But even better is to exhaust all the interior possibilities, as Oliver suggests.

From the same site:

£419 though.

Is that Heather Mills?

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread6619.html

plus big fuck-off chain and you're sorted.

Skully - I love the word 'ginnel'.

Don't hear it often enough IMO.

heh. Wondered if anyone would spot that.

Is that Heather Mills?

knicking bikes again.. pikey cow is never satisfied

I bought one of these (after much thinking) as I had a couple of bikes pinched in the winter. http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/products_accessbikestore.htm It's fantatsic~! Weighs somthingl ike 20 stone rust proff, the works.

Get one they are great.

Andy

Looks better than the bikestore^. I couldn't get this as I have a very narrow space in front of it so i needed the bikestore's door mechanism.

I bought one of these (after much thinking) as I had a couple of bikes pinched in the winter. http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/products_accessbikestore.htm It's fantatsic~! Weighs somthingl ike 20 stone rust proff, the works.

Get one they are great.

Andy

OK, THAT looks awesome... Thanks!

I have one of the Trimetals ones. £450 or so when I got it. Solid, but not impervious. As others have said, it's only held shut with a couple of padlocks. which you could snip with big bolt croppers or cut through the aluminium arms in not much time.

So, the bikes inside are chained to a D-lock that's cemented in the ground (I cut a hole in the wooden floor) and secured with a chain.

Not just any chain, a 2m Almax Immobiliser IV. 19mm thick steel-boron links. £135 quid, plus another £70 for a Squire SS65CS padlock. It weighs about 20kg and has stopped me worrying about bikes being nicked.

(They're also insured on the house insurance, after telling them how it was all secured they were happy to consider it a "secure outbuilding".)

How about try one of these....... if you have the room !!

ok, i have also had to move my bikes (workhorse and polo) out into this "shed". i live in uni halls and had happily been keeping them in my room, security knew about it, cleaners knew about it, then some twatty jobsworth reports me, and i'm told i have to move to shed. at first was very skeptical imagining some damn rotting wooden thing. turns out it is actually a brick building (about 5m square) with wooden doors, when you have to obtain a key to get into. i am not really worried about them getting nicked (good locks, insured, not a lot i can do about it anyway, apparently it's illegal inside the building), but am worried about "atmospheric damp" as i have a steel frame. i have some jp weigle framesaver that i will treat the frame with tomorrow probably, the only other steel parts on the bike i can think of are the spokes, maybe other little bits and bobs like pedal axles and bearings. if i keep it all nicely greased up (would a light coating of wd40 on exposed metal help), am i at a risk of anything breaking due to it being cold all the time? the room is not damp, the roof is sound, it is just obviously quite damp in the air as it is just a wooden door. would it be worth keeping the bike covered with a sheet or something or would this just keep the moisture on it?

thanks for any help.

Reeeeeebump!

I need an Anchor to secure bikes to.

it needs to fit at the front of the house, into the floor and lock two bikes. are there any folks can recommend?
http://www.pjbsecurity.co.uk/atv-quad-anchors-motorcycle-and-scooter-anchors/

PJB do a good line, i figured motorcycle would be a little more robust than push cycle.
That one posted by Fred from Wiggle looks like it could be removed with a digestive biscuit

greasy

might be worth checking out motorbike storage solutions
ground anchors and the like can be found on the MCN website along with reviews and real life stories about battling bike thieves

i also saw a few years back a solid steel motorbike cage / box seemed to provide a very secure Thatchams (?) top rated

can't for the life of me remember the name of the company making them but they should be easy to find

this looks a winner
http://www.hardie-secure.com/acatalog/Ground_Anchor_1.html#a1

i think i have an abus ground anchor for my motorbike
drill down into solid concrete get the expanding bolts to grip and hold the anchor

you'd need a pneumatic drill to get it out then it;s just a matter of getting a chain strong enough to stop people cutting through that

it's all about the weakest link !