r/CyclePDX • u/Ex-zaviera • 4d ago

Public Service Announcement -2

Please don't store your bicycle in a locked building and call it good.

Once that building is breached, your bicycle is as good as gone.

Please lock up your bike to something: a handtruck, a car bumper, another bike.
Make the locked bike-plus-structure wide, make it cumbersome, make very difficult to carry away in one piece.

You can buy an at-home bike rack and not even have to attach it to the floor of your structure for it to work very well.

I found this rack on a free site.

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u/b0n2o 4d ago

I'm not sure about leaving it unattached. You never know what a criminal might do if they are willing to break into your house.

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u/TedsFaustianBargain 3d ago

A floor anchor might be an easier solution for home storage than a full rack. https://lockitt.com/kryptonite-evo-floor-anchor

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u/AlexV348 3d ago

What kind of "building"? Like my house or a shed?

I usually don't lock up my bike in my house because my laptop is easier to access for would-be thieves and more expensive than my bike.

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u/criddling 2d ago

I believe they mean buildings with shared residents/tenants due to "people holding door open", or not doing anything about people coming in when someone else enters/exists.

You can't totally eliminate risk, but anchoring it down like a safe inside a private single family residence is probably an overkill.

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u/Ex-zaviera 3d ago

Garage, shed, covered porch. Anything that can be easily breached.

I agree if your bike is in your house, there are smaller more portable things for thieves to grab. But keeping it near your door.. maybe? "¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/criddling 2d ago

On a covered porch, never lock to stakes on the railing that can easily be ripped out.
Small trees, parking signs are also not good.

Parking sign poles are designed to snap off at the bottom if hit. It can snap rather easily by human hands if they grab onto it up high with a rope near the top, or bumped with a stolen car.