That bike theft section seemes to be getting very busy . Many of you dont have garages and do what you can with off the shelf security devices . The problem as I see it is that off the shelf security maybe does not work as well as it could in your given situation . Maybe you have the chain but nothing to chain it too . Cant get the big chain through a secure part of the bike . Can only secure one wheel or the other . Maybe your exact parking spot moves day to day as other nick yer space so can’t get to the lampost or whatever . So as some of you know part of what I do for a livin is batter and beat cut and weld heavy lumps of metal into various shapes . So I was wondering if anyone would like to help me experiment with some sort of custom made security device for your bike . I have a few outline ideas but need a person with a bike that parks outside on a drive,garden path or street that would let me take some measurments and have a look at possibilitys to improve the immobalisation of the bike and custom make a security device that will work in conjunction with your current chain and locks and be able to be moved and stored in the home for when you come back . Something that will attatch both wheels and maybe the frame or swingarm or forks together in an inconveniently locked way . Something that would add some extra layers of pain for a theif to remove .
You mean you don’t work in a florists? 
I’m up for a bit of security R and D.
You would need to buy a bike we can measure first 
I’m up for it, NumNum
I think possibly unfaired for a first experiment might be better . Just for ease of getting and looking at parts with less trouble . But depending on how ideas go … faired will be attempted and your top of the list 
I might well have a naked bike by this time tomorrow… 
No problem - just keep me updated
Hope your method is easier, just spent 3 hours 3 expensive concrete drill bits and one knackered drill to put in a ground anchor is some very hard concrete.
If you can fit a ground anchor your one of the lucky ones it seems . That has got to be the best outside option . Although some sort of box frame that attatches to the bike and the anchor with your chain up through the inside of it so they have more to cut before they get the bike loose might be of benifit . Like a really super heavy duty bike stand that locks onto the frame or swingarm .
This is for inside a concrete garage!
Your okay then … whatcha bitchin abaaat, ya even got to work in the dry 
True, but who said I had to like it
I’m up for a bit of this Num Num, I bash metal a bit as well, or at least used to for a living. I can certainly weld and have lots of big hammers at least, as well as periodic access to a workshop in bloomsbury. (pipe rollers, wet cut saw, oxy propane, compressed air…)
new bike collected later this week so keen to get it properly secure. semi faired i guess, big fat adventure bike, so spoked wheels and covered in belly pans, huggers, engine bars and other shite that will get in the way.
let me know.
Mate, as you know, I have a naked bike and a driveway (leaving the car on the road recently, so there’s space for the trailer, which is what I currently chain to 
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Give me a shout if needed.
You’re welcome to come round and measure up at mine if you want Rob. I park on a bit of pavement so it’s relatively flat and easy to work on if it helps.
Something like this?
With a long enough pin, and two chains - one for front wheel and one for rear - you could make it harder for tea leafs. Maybe some kind of box around the pin to make it harder to get to the padlock/pin?
What we need to design is a hydraulic spike, about 12 inches long, that is shot through the seat if the bike is started with anything other than the key. 
Im thinking about getting something made up…
We park very closely next to each other in our garage. So in addition to all our chains, alarms, disc locks and blah blah blah… i would like to have a pinch bolt through each frame
of the bike and then in-between the bikes, an attachment/lock that connects both pinch bolts. Basically bolting each bike together.
This can be done but also needs to be simple. Not have anything in the mechanism that could swing loose when unlocking and scratch the bikes, be fitted by one person with bikes in situ.
NumNum id be interested in what you come up with. Ideally for us, locking both bikes together more is something were interested in.
Just spent £239 on additional security rang up MCE to add it on…and not a penny reduced for it. What a load of bollocks.:crazy:
From my experience extra security only reduces the premium if it exists when taking out the policy, not part way through the year. Not the same for modifications, or anything else that would increase the premium, though. Oh no, then they’re more than happy to alter the premium mid way through the policy!.. :crazy: