Bicycles
Hi, looking for some advice. We have had our caravan for a couple of years and have never taken bikes with us. We want start taking them when we resume using the caravan in the spring. Transporting the bikes isn't a problem but how do you store them at the
site? They are all adult size bikes and we want to find an easy but secure way of storing them. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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We use a cable like this looped through a caravan wheel spoke. On the opposite side to the awning. Or through the van's "A" frame, it all depends on what is convenient, it could be round a tree. Anything solid enough to plicate the insurers.
http://www.screwfix.com/p/smith-locke-braided-steel-security-cable-3m-x-15mm/7161g
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depending on the site we are one and what is available we usually secure them to the grab handles at the back with a long padlock. Seen secure and safe on many sites.
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I used to carry mine around on the back of a motorhome. They were not cheap but were difficult to lift down and never went on an ‘unauthorised ride’. By the sound of things, we were lucky or maybe reports of losses appear out of proportion to their event.
I’d make sure that anything left outside did not look neglected or insecure. If you cannot afford to lose it, don’t take it if you don’t want to be spending your holiday with an eye on the lookout all the time.
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If it's not been mentioned....insurance for bikes is normally only valid, in the case of theft, when the bikes are locked to an 'immovable object'.
So, when you take a picture after the event ensure that your now severed locks/cables are not around a vehicle ('van or MH) but a sturdy tree or post!!
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Insurance is expensive, especially for bicycles. The premiums go to the government, the payroll and profit of the insurance company, and payouts for unnecessary claims by some careless and some unscrupulous people. It’s an inefficient scheme that I’m not
prepared to fund. I take reasonable care of my property and save the premiums, and now I’m no longer riding scrappy bikes. I’ve not bought such insurance, even though I lost a bike in my early days, because I consider the risk to be much less than the premium
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6' cable lock, around immovable object thru both wheels & the frame-saves having the quick release mechanisms on the wheels being used against you.
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We take 2 old and tatty, 2nd.hand bikes with us that no self-respecting thief would take.We leave our better quality bikes securely locked in the garage. When on site as a precaution we chain them to a tree or post and haven't had a problem so far.
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My bike survived at Ferry Meadows - but it is in an area I might expect a little trouble possibly - I think those are the only two sites I have seen a warning on. (I had forgotten Ferry M had signs up).
Write your comments here...and a visiting police officer giving verbal warnings when we last visited.
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out of sight, out of mind.....nice to have a large MH garage into which they can just be rolled.....and locked away...
i realise you cant do this with a caravan so get some really good locks, and perhaps a cover....
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Before the "secure" shed was put in at Clumber Park it was a real problem,on one occasion the local police stayed on site with loaned c/vans in an attempt to catch the low lifes,first night caught one,second night two cycles were stolel from awning of Police
inspector and two from the carrier on the back of a m/v with the occupents inside
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at the end of the day, of a little toerag wants your bike, theyll have the kit to pinch it.....
my son got a fab bike on the ride to work scheme....he works for the fire service in Bristol and biking across the city is far quicker than diving...
only had it a week or two, popped into local ASDA for a sarnie, used approved "XYZ lock"....two mins later, no bike and a crunched lock....no defense against good bolt cutters.....
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at the end of the day, of a little toerag wants your bike, theyll have the kit to pinch it.....
my son got a fab bike on the ride to work scheme....he works for the fire service in Bristol and biking across the city is far quicker than diving...
only had it a week or two, popped into local ASDA for a sarnie, used approved "XYZ lock"....two mins later, no bike and a crunched lock....no defense against good bolt cutters.....
Write your comments here... BB diving is quite quick,particularly off the Cliffton Bridge,trouble is it is only one way.
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haha, yes diving is pretty quick.....definitely quicker than driving...in Bristol
as it happens, son lives in Clifton so hope he doesn't take the quick way.....
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haha, yes diving is pretty quick.....definitely quicker than driving...in Bristol
as it happens, son lives in Clifton so hope he doesn't take the quick way.....
Write your comments here... Hope he gets his cycle back,I would be banned from the forum if I was to write what I thought about low life theives.
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haha, yes diving is pretty quick.....definitely quicker than driving...in Bristol
as it happens, son lives in Clifton so hope he doesn't take the quick way.....
Write your comments here... Hope he gets his cycle back,I would be banned from the forum if I was to write what I thought about low life theives.
it was a little while back now....police not interested.....he has another bike now.....but i know what you mean.
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Another site to watch out for bikes going missing is 'Whitewater' at Middlesbourgh. We use a motorbike chain to fasten our bikes to the PWS towbar on the motorhome when in the UK, when abroad we just fasten with a normal bike chain unless we feel its unsafe.
Most europeans have much more expensive bikes than use and they just leave them sitting around their pitches not even chained up.0 -
Another site to watch out for bikes going missing is 'Whitewater' at Middlesbourgh. We use a motorbike chain to fasten our bikes to the PWS towbar on the motorhome when in the UK, when abroad we just fasten with a normal bike chain unless we feel its unsafe.
Most europeans have much more expensive bikes than use and they just leave them sitting around their pitches not even chained up.....yes, TG, its surprising at first to see this apparently 'laissez faire' attitude, but you soon realise its pretty much the same all over the many european countries weve visited.....its still hard to not lock your stuff away, but thats how it is there.....i
wonder what they might think of Clumber Park.....this different security conscious attitude here would probably strike more of a chord in a europeans mind when visiting england (CC?) than 'clean toilets'
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AD we got talking to an english couple opposite us at Kiko park last October, they warned us about taking the bikes into town as they had both had their ebikes stolen the year before. Have to say we always lock them up well when we take them out and then
park them up, would hate to have a long walk back
I think they are the only people we've spoken to who claim to have had bikes stolen while abroad.0 -
AD we got talking to an english couple opposite us at Kiko park last October, they warned us about taking the bikes into town as they had both had their ebikes stolen the year before. Have to say we always lock them up well when we take them out and then
park them up, would hate to have a long walk back
I think they are the only people we've spoken to who claim to have had bikes stolen while abroad.I was talking about on site we would always lock them up outside and its asking for trouble not to, I was just a bit surprised at the amount of theft from club sites
Oh ok, yes it is amazing how much that does go missing from club sites and not just bikes by all account
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Away from caravan sites for a moment, some may be amused at an incedent involving my daughter who was living in a flat in Docklands, London a few years ago. I was shopping one Saturday morning where I live in Bucks when she called to say that her bike had been stolen from the underground car below her flat where it was kept chained up. Of course there was nothing that I could do apart from commiserate with her and to say that I would look out for a replacement. About 2 hours later she called again,full of excitement to say that she had found her bike outside the local Asda where the thief had parked it to do some shopping. So she promptly 'stole' it back and quickly rode off. On my next visit to her,I took some paint and brushes and changed the colour in case the low-life recognised her and approached her. I would have loved to have seen his face when he found that another low-life had taken his newly aquired trophy.
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