Ground Anchor into Brick.. opinions
 

I did this a while back but have researched it some more and have come to a semi conclusion.

Unfortunately I've eith a bricked drive or a bricked wall to secure my SV too, ie no where to dig and sink concrete. Due to the layout of the area a good ol bucket of concrete isn't really an option either so i've been looking at the cheap anchors.

I figure the bike is alarmed, covered, locked, disklocked, however i'm attaching it to the floor is just another deterrent more than a stopper (as my bike often gets left our front all day with no one in if they really want her they're going to take her, fortunatly it's a quiet village estate) so i'm looking at the cheap and cheerful motrax GroundHog1 or the oxford eq.

http://www.ane-shop.co.uk/prod/catal...oducts_id=1897

Just wondering if anyone had any advice about sinking these into brick (as they all say wall mountable i assume it's possible??).

thanks

dunno Jon..
but just wanted to say dunno cos it looks like no one has read yer thread...!!!

woulda though a good ground anchor and bolts wud be fine into brick.

they would be fine as far as I can see, but a hell of a lot easier to yank out than if it were concrete.

use the brickwork by all means but ALSO use an epoxy mortar to ground the bolts into the brickwork you can use whats left over to point the surrounding brickwork as well as cover the bolts that you are using..


i would recommend something along the lines of sikadur-31 its a 2-part epoxy mortar that goes of in about 8 hours but once set you will need a kangol to get it out

Could you not drill straight through the wall and put a backing plate on the other side. That way they'll have to pull half the wall down to take the bike with anchor still attatched. At the end of the day though, the anchor only useful if it's got a good chain through it i.e ABUS GRANIT not market £10 of butter iron :roll:

Who :?: Get an Almax - Top physical security available IMHO :!:

It's got to be the wall. Brick drives are usually simply laid loose on sharp sand.

http://www.abus.de/us/main.asp?Scree...rtikelGrID=151

ABUS, German firm, Took a Stihl saw to one with diamond blade and couldn't get through after 30 mins of trying. Got about 3 mm into it :shock: . 2 in my garage keeping my baby nice and safe :lol: .

If that's the case, why not take up a couple of bricks, dig a hole, fill it with contrete and attach the anchor to that?

I think Abus are talking rubbish, i cut through an abus granite chain with a small angle grinder from Wickes using the standard crappy disk that came with it.
Most Ground anchors that use bolts can be levered out with a extra long crowbar especially attaching to brick which is quite soft. if you can remove a few of your bricks on the drive, if its loose under the brick fill with post mix about an inch from the top then fill the rest with mortor flush to the top of the bricks, with this type of anchor you can drive over it with bike of car.
http://www.infinitymotorcycles.com/i..._Fortress2.jpg
its worth the extra hassle and buy a Almax.

That's that I was going to say.

Oh, and that I agree with Cloggsy on the Almax Chain; it's Ride mags best buy and won the test by some margin.

I think you should go to much more effort to do some concrete. I spent 2 years digging out ground in the garden before preparing a concrete bay in the garden which I designed and built with my builder mate and carefully and securely put the ground anchor. Only then did I get my current bike.

I know of one local biker who had a large wall anchor and some thieving scum took his bike in the middle of the night complete with anchor and a couple of the bricks attached. Thieves come in the middle of the night, they can do it silently and they seem to be able to carry very heavy bikes over small walls etc.. never to be seen again.

if you dig past the 2" layer of sand then you will hit hardcore and then earth, dig it deep enough for one bag of postmix it will be secure, using a brick wall is not a good idea. :roll:

I went with the ground hog 3....real heavy and so even if they got the anchor out the brick by removing the brick they still have a heavy chain and anchor to deal with...as well as an oxford 385 on the back wheel

So you've this sunk into brick? Where abouts are you in herts, i'd love to have a look if possible.

My poor bikes sitting on my drive at the moment all covered with just a chain around the back wheel. Poor girl.

No it is not in brick but in concrete floor....was just saying if it was in brick and they got it out the ground hog 3 weighs enough to be a bit of a nusiance

Oh and the ground hog 3 comes with epoxy mortar...all for 50 quid....insurance approved too