Securing bikes while camping

[woods_rider1]

We ride every weekend and can best be described as "day campers", we are toying with the idea of a motorhome with trailer to stay the night at the riding area, and we need to know what everyone does at night as far as securing your bikes. With bike theft so prevalent these days, we would hate to wake up and open the door to find the bikes gone. Just wondering if you guys chain them into the trailer/truck, or chain them up outside the tent/motorhome, or just trust the powers that be...
Any ideas are welcome, Thanks Guys

 

[Senior KX Rider]

If I need to lock one up I usually just put a padlock thru one of the holes in the sprocket. If someone wants to take it they will have to carry it.:)

 

[tileman]

I allways put a Xena cable lock in mine when we leave them in the trailer over night look HERE
to see the cable lock payed like $55.00 for the 8 foot one but its real nice lock and I fell some what safe with it in there.

 

[CO Dan]

I used to put a lock through my sprocket and around my chain on my street bike, like described above.

Then one night I forgot about, got on, and roared off. The lock was snapped off cleanly. No harm to me or the bike.

The moral of the story is to use a very strong lock if you're gonna try that.

 

[Danman]

Just put it through the hole on the front disk and the back sprocket. It will make noise and generaly be a nusance to steal or realy noisey. I have also locked my alumium ramp to the frame of my bike. That would make a hell of a racket if some was to drag it off.

 

[KWJams]

Dog cable---

--one of them plastic covered 1/4" x 20' dog cables.
They do not cost much, we route the cable through the frames on all our bikes, throw a small tarp over them to keep the dew off and padlock the cable to the trailer.
I figure most bike thefts out in the hills are done by late night partiers who stumble on to them and roll one off for a joy ride.
It just makes it hard for a thief to roll away a bike, a serious one would not have a problem.
If you slow down a thief, you will not wake up to find everything missing.
I do the same thing in my garage with a 5/8" cable and a couple other tricks.

 

[kc-husky]

I have a 6 x 10 utillity trailer. I welded small tubes on both sides of the trailer rails. And run a solid 3/4" steel bar across that slides in and out throught the bike rims and into the tubes. and on one side of the trailer I also welded a big tab and a tab on the rod and lock them together. I can lock up four bikes at a time with this setup. :cool:

 

[yz250roost]

I drilled a hole through my lift stand and put a chain through the frame and locked it to the stand, then put a lock so the stand stays in the up position, with any dirtbike your bike can still get stolen but deterence is key, they will probably just go off to find a bike that isn't locked,
p.s. weekend trips are the BEST you'll love it!!!!

 

[rollingp]

I bought a cable lock from northern tool that if cut sounds a loud siren .
It also goes off if the cover for the battery is tampered with.
( pressure switch) It has a motion sensor so if someone attemps to take it off in any way it goes off.
It is waterproof also. I put this baby on and connect it to something fixed along with a pad lock through the front rotor and a heavy log chain through the frame to anything fixed. i back that up with a 1911 Colt 45 Government model.
My racing partner has a variety of locks etc connected to his bikes and he takes the front wheel off and takes it in his house.
Then he has a baby monitor in his garage and the reciever on his nightstand.
More than once it has alerted him to attempted break in.
Back in 94 I was ripped off so I mounted momentary switch on the door jamb of my race trailer. It was wired to a rocket ignitor and I took a plastic bag
put a size d rocket motor in it that when it went off it woud ignite an m-80
that was also in the bag. The bag was filled with blue die pack powder the banks use for exploding die packs.
I hung this at face level so if the door was opened the would be thieves
would get the flash bang effect and be covered in that die.
I hid an arming switch under the trailer and posted a warning sign.
A couple of years after that out here in the country we had a rash of bikes and quads ripped off.
I had a bunch of home made security items set up in my shop.
I hooked up a car coil to the steel entrance door with a steady charge connected from a 24 volt battery pack.
It worked.


:eek:

 

[Natester]

I love it!!! There's nothing worse than getting ripped off. Here's one more piece of advice someone gave me: if you guys run Scotts steering dampers like me, take it off at night, since it only takes a small allen wrench to swipe it, and you're out $400. Gone in 6 seconds! :uh:

 

[yz250roost]

rollingp,
sounds kinda dangerous if you have kids running around....sounds dangerous even if you don't have kids. Well have fun with that:think