hey guys i need to get one fitted at home, can you guys recommend any good solid ones, and roughly what style would you suggest for a concrete driveway? any advice will help!
it also needs to be big enough to cope with my big new ****off almax chain!!
Datatool do good ones. Aren’t there some others on the Almax website too?
oh i will check!!
I thought you’d decided to go for lots of tasteless mods as a way of deterring thieves.
Hi fella … answer to your probs, this is a good friend of mine… and biker himself . Has done all my installations at SPIDEVILLE and Im well happy 
I will tell him to look after you…
BE SAFE NOT SORRY
My insurance company had never heard of ground anchors. They gave me a discount for having a big chain, but nothing for nailing the bike to the ground.
i made my own using a big eye bolt. Just drilled a hole in the concrete and put the anchor in with one of those big bolts that expands when you tighten it…( i forget the name)
Most important thing is make sure you put it in the corner of your garage, not the middle. Reason being is if it’s in the corner it makes it harder for someone to cut or faf around with it if they are trying to nick your bike.
all sorted thanks to, “anchor-man” que dodgy music…
I made my own ground anchor with a 6" steel PN16 steel flange and a scafold eye.
I welded the eye to the flange and then chemical fixed the flange to the ground.
exactly who i was about to recommend!
thanks for the help guys, yep sure am happy with what im getting, Thanks to Andy for all your help!
to be honest mate its not that hard to install a ground anchor (unless you’re concreting into the floor). you just need a hammer drill and a 16mm bit (your normal drill set wont go that big). easiest way to do it with a normal drill is to start with small drill bits and work your way up through the bit sizes to the 16mm
the Hardy ones come with the drill bit included, otherwise they’re a couple of quid from machine mart etc. They also vary in terms of the number of bolts - the hardy just as one in the centre, ones like the abus have 4. make sure you drill deep enough that the bolt when screwed in goes in flush to the floor
assuming you’re installing it into the floor, you want to have a think about how you’ll be chaining the bike to it - you want the chain to be able to loop to the bike tightly without having slack on the floor. its better to be chaining to an integral part of the bike than just the wheel so try putting the bike in position and putting the chain on as if it were in the anchor. the more awkward it is to get at the less they can get tools/purchase on the chain)
Very true Johnny but you would agree that there are people out there that don’t have the tools to change the chain on their bike, their pads or know how to bleed their clutch.
I’ll be asking MHO (if you don’t know what this stands for then lucky you…they are a bunch of @#@#ers!) if I can have one put in on our estate. Not wanting a little chav taking the Factory or I’ll be doing time for knocking the life out of them! Just like what some other person posted. I’m all laughs until you F/with my bike
cant say i’ve needed to do any of those jobs yet so that would prob include me (well, apart from the pads at least). the risk of drilling a hole wrong is prob a bit less than your chain rivetting being dodgy or your brakes failing…
cant you just whack one in the ground anyway? what can they do when its in?
easier to ask forgiveness than permission…
do i look like i can use a drill jb? i mean cmon youve seen my arms!, me n diy do not go together, and its being cemented in for me too, and i get to check out some muscles in action…
cant you just whack one in the ground anyway? what can they do when its in?
I’ve had nothing but problems with them over the last 5 years. Has taken 3 years to get lighting in the car parking area and this after many cars being broken into 
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I’ll be having a chat with the guy to ask how long it takes and how best to keep it out of sight. If none of the other people can see it then I could be ok
I just contacted ‘Anchor Man’ to get something installed in my drive, Ive got block paving so I hope this doesnt cause any probs. I wouldnt trust anything I install ha ha
That steel flange looks hardy m8 but surely the scaffold eye is cast steel, would it not snap with a good hardy wap with a hammer or summat, espesh if cold?
That´s a quality come-back (ahem) and it offends me that no-one has mentioned it thus far. Nice one dude, I appreciated it and my vote counts hehe
Anyway Matt, I think Almax do some and I´d buyfrom them given a choice.
Just make sure that the point the chain is linked into is shielded and resin glue is the waz to secure bolts into the ground (ie the theiving teats can´t just unscrew them).
I have paving block on my drive too. When I installed the anchor I tested it and it just allowed me to lift the paving block out. Most pavers are simply set in sand. So I had to cement in the blocks.
The other problem I had was that the masonary drill bit supplied with the anhcor would not fit in the chuck of my drill - it was too thick. I had to get a drill bit with a slimmer shaft. Got there in the end though.