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gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 01:02 PM
Out of interest? What percentage of us don't have garages?
gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 01:04 PM
I kept it as a private poll btw.
philbut
31-03-08, 01:44 PM
Got a garage, but I'm loosing it in July when I move, so the SV has to go :-( I can't bare the thought of her sat outside for some little c**t to steal. Gonna keep me ZZR, as she is so ugly it acts as an anti theft device anyway.
garage............. if i did not have a garage, i dont think i would have got a bike
Mines in a residential parking area with a cover over it and the imobiliser on. Same for vernas.
Its fairly quiet where we live and they are hidden from the road by my car.
You forgot the bedroom/front room option for some of the nutters on here :lol:
dizzyblonde
31-03-08, 01:51 PM
You forgot the bedroom/front room option for some of the nutters on here :lol:
was just going to say that,
never you mind where my bikes are stored....all you need to know is that you have to climb through three gates, pass the cats, and my big dogs......the razor wire, landmines.....lol
gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 02:31 PM
I'm just in the position now where I might need to store it on the road without anything to chain it too. I don't think it would last a week!
gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 02:31 PM
16 : 1:?
Have you any space at all off the road other than the pavement (as per yer other thread)?
If you have it may be worth looking at the BikeSafe kind of sheds. I'm sure you would have though if you did. (thats what I've got).
wyrdness
31-03-08, 02:36 PM
Mines in a residential parking area with a cover over it and the imobiliser on. Same for vernas.
Its fairly quiet where we live and they are hidden from the road by my car.
Same here. Mine's in the car park of the block of flats. I've installed a ground anchor and cover the bike. It can't easily be seen from the road (which is a dead-end so we don't get through traffic) and it's a very quiet area. I kept an unlocked and uncovered Harley and Ducati there for years with no problems, though my SV did get nicked. Which is why I fitted a ground anchor when I got the Speed Triple.
Anyway, where's the poll options for 'private car park'? I'm voting 'garden' as it's the closest option.
gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 02:42 PM
Have you any space at all off the road other than the pavement (as per yer other thread)?
If you have it may be worth looking at the BikeSafe kind of sheds. I'm sure you would have though if you did. (thats what I've got).
Sadly not. No access to the backyard at all and nothing at the front. Typical Cardiff townhouses. If the council won't allow me to park on the pavement is it too much to ask to put some kind of ground anchor in!? And they wonder why theft is so high.
STRAMASHER
31-03-08, 02:53 PM
Used to keep smaller bikes in the dunny/basement of a tenement flat. Evel Kneival 'd it up a wooden ramp to get out the back steps. Neighbours were cool.
Then I got the race-piped Firestorm:p :smt070
Luckily it was only for two weeks till we moved to a front and back garden, and a nice big bike-only garage;)
gettin2dizzy
31-03-08, 02:54 PM
Ground anchor - why ask?
Can you imagine what the council would fine you to 'fix' it?!
in small private car park behind my flat. under a cover. chained to lamp post. with a neighbour who works shifts and takes his pit bull for a walk at 3 am with a baseball bat and taser. next place will have a garage though
beaniebikerbabe
31-03-08, 03:14 PM
mine is on path chained to a lamp post, with a disc lock too, we have just moved house and are thinking of one of them metal bike sheds. needs to be big enough for two bikes tho :confused:
Neither bike is anchored or chained in either way.
SV PILOT
31-03-08, 03:56 PM
gettin2dizzy, have you considered hiring a lock up(garage)? My mate had a similar problem and got hold of the council to see if their were any lock up's near his home address.
beaniebikerbabe
31-03-08, 03:59 PM
gettin2dizzy, have you considered hiring a lock up(garage)? My mate had a similar problem and got hold of the council to see if their were any lock up's near his home address.
there are none around here, wud like that idea tho, be cheaper and probably easier than trying to get a shed big enough to fit two bikes!:smt017
SV PILOT
31-03-08, 04:03 PM
Ah well, thats a shame. Thats the council for you!
beaniebikerbabe
31-03-08, 04:10 PM
they dont own very many council houses any more and round here all garages were knocked down to build private housing and social housing so no garages for us poor folk lol
sv-robo
31-03-08, 04:57 PM
In the back yard under a top of the range bike cover,
Alarmed/immobilised
Oxford chain lock through back wheel and around drainpipe.
Then any would be theives would need to pick the lock on my small shed to get the ramps out to get it out of the gate.
No ones gonna steal my baby...JUST TRY IT:smt070:smt070:smt070:smt070:smt070:smt070:smt07 0:smt070:smt070:smt070:smt070
I keep mine in my hallway next to the hedge trimmer!:smt070
You forgot the bedroom/front room option for some of the nutters on here :lol:
Now who would keep a bike in their front room?
:p:p
kwak zzr
31-03-08, 05:33 PM
prefab garage, i'd love to be able to get it in the house tho.
Secure garden, locked down and undercover.
When I got my first bike I was homeless and kipping with a friend in a crappy neighbourhood. I used to take it inside the flats each through double doors and lock it under the sprial staircase. It used to take me 20 mins to get the bike out in the mornings and longer to get it back in at night (I did stop the engine before coming into the building). Glad I did though, I came out one morning to find the rear wheel of a scooter hanging from the lampost outside the building... Was so glad I found ahouse after a few weeks where it was safe (although on the streets)...
Can you imagine what the council would fine you to 'fix' it?!
"but I didn't put it there, I just found it so I might as well use it" :smt102
DanAbnormal
01-04-08, 09:54 AM
Garage. And my bike looks lonley all by itself.
Ceri JC
01-04-08, 10:13 AM
garage............. if i did not have a garage, i dont think i would have got a bike
+1
It was a condition of me buying a house that it had a garage. I don't think I could go back to garaging a bike somewhere other than my house and I'd never leave it parked on the road permanantly (unless it was even less nickable). I would consider it with secure parking/a shed.
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