Stolen bikes

Warning to those with communal bike sheds.

There was a theft last night from our communal bike shed in Greenwich. They took someones bike, I don't have all the details of the bike, but the method they used was to unbolt the sheffield stand from the floor.

I know they should be concreted into the floor but it never occured to me that they could be unbolted, I spent so much time picking locks and learning how to use them I can't believe I was so stupid to over look this. They managed to get a couple of bolts out of another rack where my girlfriends Thorn was kept but lucky for us they rounded one of them in the process. The other guy was just unlucky.

I need to speak to my insurance company but I think these stands invalidate our insurance so worth checking if your in a similar situation, we current now have four bikes in the flat. Hopefully putting concrete around the base will mean the bolts cannot be reached and will therefore meet insurance standards. I'll update if I find out.

Safe riding all.

p.s. sorry if everyone knows this already.. it seems so obvious yet I never even thought about.

Same thing happened at my communal racks once, luckily my bike was still there. Select which rack you want to use and then bash the end of the rawl bolt to with a big hammer to mushroom out the threaded bit. No chance of them getting the nuts off then.