Home security set ups

[Morety]

Looking to update all of my home security solutions for the bikes, Grinder resistant ground anchor already secured. Looking for opinions from the experience of other ukgser members on what you use/consider the best set ups? Any security is better than none, so appreciate there will be differing views. The simplest solution for one of my bikes is the Pragmassis anti pinch bolt/squire lock. The other bike can't use this as it's a conventional swingarm. Budget is a little tight (so looking at used as well as new options).

Thoughts?

 

[siddo]

Litelok have just bought out an anti grinder link piece. Great for securing 2 bikes together.

 

[Barnoe]

I do have a lot of security, however.....
The best alarm i have, after all that expense is the dog.

All bikers need a dog.

 

[wessie]

the best thing you can do for security is move further away from Bristol ...

 

[Fiddlesticks]

Layers of security is key, but keeping them out of the garage should be a high priority.

 

[Morety]

Layers of security is key, but keeping them out of the garage should be a high priority.

Keeping them out? Don't you mean keeping them inside?

 

[Morety]

Litelok have just bought out an anti grinder link piece. Great for securing 2 bikes together.

I haven't seen one from Litelok but Hiplok do one. The attraction here is the both rear wheels could be secured by a 1.5m 16mm chain from each bike connected to that link with a heavier chain connecting it to a ground anchor, everything off the floor making it difficult to defeat.

 

[Oldrat]

The cheapest security measure one can take is to keep it out of sight, don’t leave it on the drive etc

 

[dean0n0]

The cheapest security measure one can take is to keep it out of sight, don’t leave it on the drive etc

Don't take the same route home, if possible.
Check mirrors for following vehicles, do a few laps if suspicious.
Ride a shit bike.

 

[Fiddlesticks]

Keeping them out? Don't you mean keeping them inside?

Keep the thieves out and the bikes in.

 

[Pale Rider]

The cheapest security measure one can take is to keep it out of sight, don’t leave it on the drive etc

The cheapest security measure one can take is to keep it out of sight, don’t leave it on the drive etc

Easier said than done when you’ve got the local chavs zipping about on they’re Surrons “scoping” their next victim. Only this afternoon i was weeding my drive and a couple of bally’s zipped past luckily I didn’t have the bike out.

 

[Morety]

Luckily, I live somewhere with relatively low bike crime and if washing the bike, return it to the garage fairly soon afterwards so try and minimise exposure to prying eyes. Occasionally I might be in the garage working with the door open and courier drivers come up handing deliveries over. Sounds innocuous enough but a neighbour was in his garden with the gates open a few years ago and a delivery driver walked in and clocked the cement mixer there. It couldn't be seen from the road. That evening it was pinched in the early hours. Most delivery drivers to us are decent blokes (and lassies) and I know some on first name terms but my neighbour's experiences have made me extra careful as loose lips in pubs after work "I was doing a drop to xxxx and saw (insert name of bike or tools) to the wrong sort (intentionally or through being overheard) can result in risk to the owner's property.

 

[Pale Rider]

Also saw something on fb about making a short loop of paracord or similar to go through your keys and loop round the bars to stop the fuckers that pull up next to you at the lights and grab your keys, all getting a bit in the extreme but necessary in the current climate.

 

[Morety]

Also saw something on fb about making a short loop of paracord or similar to go through your keys and loop round the bars to stop the fuckers that pull up next to you at the lights and grab your keys, all getting a bit in the extreme but necessary in the current climate.

Probably a "must" in London these days . A shame that pepper spray isn't legal....

 

[Morety]

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[Wapping]

Also saw something on fb about making a short loop of paracord or similar to go through your keys and loop round the bars to stop the fuckers that pull up next to you at the lights and grab your keys, all getting a bit in the extreme but necessary in the current climate.

More useful would be a video of bods NOT slapping their must have and very expensive mobile phone on their handle bars and having them ripped off by opportunist scrotes.

Just out of interest, what are the scrotes going to do with the keys they have just snatched out of a bikermate’s ignition?

PS It sounds like a good advertisement for keyless ignitions.

 

[Pale Rider]

More useful would be a video of bods NOT slapping their must have and very expensive mobile phone on their handle bars and having them ripped off by opportunist scrotes.

Just out of interest, what are the scrotes going to do with the keys they have just snatched out of a bikermate’s ignition?

PS It sounds like a good advertisement for keyless ignitions.

Well as I’m not a scrote I’m not too sure but I’d hazard a guess and say scrote grabs keys, bike stops, scrote on following scooter drags me kicking and screaming off of my bike first scrote tosses keys to second scrote who along with passenger scrote then make off with my bike leaving me rolling around in gutter having just been given a severe kicking, something along those lines?

Fair point about the phone though, yes I’m very guilty of that as I’ve got the Quadlock wireless charging mount and phone is permanently attached whilst riding.

 

[er-minio]

Well as I’m not a scrote I’m not too sure but I’d hazard a guess and say scrote grabs keys, bike stops, scrote on following scooter drags me kicking and screaming off of my bike

For as much the scrote situation in London is bad and (still) out of control, snatching keys out of the ignition is an extremely rare occurence and it's massively overestimated by (mostly young, inexperienced) riders on Reddit or Instagram.

 

[Wapping]

If I was in a gang of scrotes, I wouldn’t bother trying to rip the keys out of a motorcycle and only then, if successful, set about hijacking the bike with (presumably) some violence.

I’d make it simpler. Surround (ie. swamp) the target bike and rider and then employ the violence. I’d very probably get the bike and the keys at the same time. Thinking about it, using this method would all but guarantee me getting the bike’s keys, as they’d be tied to the bike.

 

[Wapping]

For as much the scrote situation in London is bad and (still) out of control, snatching keys out of the ignition is an extremely rare occurence and it's massively overestimated by (mostly young, inexperienced) riders on Reddit or Instagram.

In one.

As with forgetting that they’d attached a disc lock, I wonder how many bikermates would forget to detach their key (that they’d tied to their bike with paracord) before wandering off to do whatever it is they do. Given that some leave the keys dangling from their top box, I suspect it might be more than one or two.