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.

[pegasus]

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

Originally Posted by Stormspiel

ABUS GRANIT

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.

Originally Posted by Cloggsy

Who Get an Almax - Top physical security available IMHO

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 . 2 in my garage keeping my baby nice and safe .

Originally Posted by chazzyb

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

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?

Originally Posted by Stormspiel

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 . 2 in my garage keeping my baby nice and safe .

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.

its worth the extra hassle and buy a Almax.