Wissant Aire warning

Just a chance the RO thought you looked dodgy not getting out of your van, and decided he'd
better drive off ! :idea:
 
mistericeman said:
Best locks in the world aren't going to be much use locked to your average flimsy aluminium bike rack.... Sadly.
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trevskoda said:
Some abus locks in shops have found to be soft copys from you know where.
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Then they are not Abus Granit locks. Make sure you buy the genuine article.

***** said:
If they are hung on the back of an aluminium rack, the rack itself is so easy to cut through!
The cycles need a good lock to the chassis.
To be honest we just used two cheap plastic covered locks with a solid anti theft chain and security pad lock and every wheel had two heavy duty cable ties to the rack and a few cable ties fastening each bike together.
This would have made it not a case of a couple of snips, and I would imaging they would miss a couple of ties and make lots of noise!
The way of my thinking is that they would move to an easier target!
Incidentally, we have used Wissant many times, and no problems, but not for the last three years!
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Nabsim said:
I do agree but if they wanted them it wouldn’t be hard to cut through an alli bike rack

Edit: opps, didn’t realise there was a second page when I made this post on my phone. Others have already said what I thought
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I did say it wouldn't make them impossible to steal. Obviously any ali rack can be cut through. Its about making it more awkward so they will move on. They want speed on their side one cut and away. Whilst the rack is soft it doesn't lend itself to going into the jaws of croppers unless they are very large ones.
It doesn't alter the fact many use cheap locks on the bikes. How many times have you heard of the racks been chopped to get a bike. it seems to me always the locks.
 
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1) Insure Bike
2) buy Sold Secure Gold Bike Lock
3) Lock bike to bike rack
4) Take photo
5) Sleep well.

Pat
 
My bike is so crap they would steal the lock and leave the bike:lol-061:
 
Tezza33 said:
I would love to enlighten you as I have told you many times but unfortunately you were right (again) and I was wrong, sorry
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Actually, you might have been right as my spelling has deterioralated since I stopped working! :)
 
Fazerloz said:
I did say it wouldn't make them impossible to steal. Obviously any ali rack can be cut through. Its about making it more awkward so they will move on. They want speed on their side one cut and away. Whilst the rack is soft it doesn't lend itself to going into the jaws of croppers unless they are very large ones.
It doesn't alter the fact many use cheap locks on the bikes. How many times have you heard of the racks been chopped to get a bike. it seems to me always the locks.
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I have spoken to someone who was beating himself up over his stupidity
in locking his bike only to the typical Fiamma rack cross bar, the thieves
must have just used an 8mm ring spanner to unfasten the nyloc and slide the
bike off with the expensive lock!

A discretely positioned IR alarm wired or remote, focussed over the rack area might
be effective, an adjustable range and experimentation needed, you wouldn't want
every passer by or cocked legged hot dog setting it off!
Or the cheap alternative just a tin of gravel in the van tied to the bike lock chain, or
possibly the bike itself, the thief will probably grab the chain first for an appraisal and set
the gravel alarm off without noticing the fishing line....that's the hope!
 
To be honest,those Liteloks are easily defeated.The Abus are a better bet
 
Jeff G said:
To be honest,those Liteloks are easily defeated.The Abus are a better bet
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Oh, I bought one and was impressed. Do you have a video or report of them being defeated?

Abus do a range of bike locks, which one do you recommend?

Pat
 
iampatman said:
Oh, I bought one and was impressed. Do you have a video or report of them being defeated?

Abus do a range of bike locks, which one do you recommend?

Pat
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The problem is,ask five people for a recommendation and likely as not get five different opinions.The Granit mentioned earlier was top pick when i was last looking

There was a YouTube vid of the Litelok being twisted off,the weak spot being the fixing of the clasp to the collar.When Likelok show tests against it,they always have the bar a far as poss away from the lock.

The problem these days of course is the angle grinder.
 
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Angle Grinder makes one hell of a racket though - would wake up the whole aire.
 
Jeff G said:
The problem is,ask five people for a recommendation and likely as not get five different opinions.The Granit mentioned earlier was top pick when i was last looking

There was a YouTube vid of the Litelok being twisted off,the weak spot being the fixing of the clasp to the collar.When Likelok show tests against it,they always have the bar a far as poss away from the lock.

The problem these days of course is the angle grinder.
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Angle grinders are the nemesis, we have acquired 3 Gold standard locks over the years, Abu D shackle, Granit motorbike chain and latterly a Litelok. We normally use a combination of two, making sure that the bikes are locked together as well so that they can't just ride off on them!! To be honest it is often down to whether your insurance company specify a Sold Secure standard and the type of lock.

Dave
 
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