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Apartment Living: Do you lock up your bike inside?

Old 05-05-21, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Interested to see if the OP is a one and doner.

Not an OP, a necromancer.
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Old 05-05-21, 12:35 PM
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After I had my mountain bike stolen out from the back of the garage while my wife was working in the garden, I lock up my bike and trike in the garage.
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My friend's new bike was stolen when he parked outside and I don't wanna suffer the same consequences. I always bring my back inside the apartment and make sure that the doors are lock.
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Old 05-05-21, 06:32 PM
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I often forget what it is like to live in a place where bike theft and crime are common. I used to live in North Long Beach, where car and home burglaries were so common that there was really no safe place to put bike or anything else. Nowadays I live in Japan where if you leave an expensive bike unlocked along a busy street, it will sit there for weeks untouched. The ironic thing is that though there is little crime in Japan, most apartments are very secure, and you would have to be a hell of a thief to get inside.

We moved into a new building a few years ago. To get in, you need to use a sensor key to let you into the lobby. The lobby has 24 hours concierge and security personnel, who keep track of people who come in. Once in the lobby, you need to use your sensor key to enter the elevator hall, and then again to push the button for your floor. You cannot get access to any floor unless you have a key for that floor. Cameras record every person who enters or leaves every moment they are in the building. Once you get to your floor, you have to unlock your door. These doors are steel (with a dark wood finish on the outside). There are two Miwa locks, the sensor key is a medical-lock design, which makes it pick-proof. The latches for the lock extend into the steel door frame, and then secondary latches move upward into the frame on top and on the bottom of the door, like the latch pins to a good safe. A sensor at the top of the door keeps a record of every time the door is opened and closed.

One could try to climb up the outside of the building to get to our 40th floor apartment, but that would be a feat worth seeing.
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Old 05-07-21, 10:10 AM
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I never leave my bike and all my kids ' scooters outside the apartment. Previously, we lived in an apartment in which there was a common corridor that was locked. Then I could afford to leave my bikes outside the apartment door, but now we have moved and we no longer have such a common corridor with a lock, so I leave everything in the apartment. But now we are thinking of buying a garage to leave everything there because it takes up a lot of space. And then we want to put an Ajax security system in the garage because we don't trust anyone.
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Old 09-08-21, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Interested to see if the OP is a one and doner.
I am happy to be able to reply, I have been quite ill as of late but am struggling to start riding again. I appreciate those who left thoughtful answers to my question.
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Old 09-08-21, 11:28 PM
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The only time I lock up my bikes is when they're inside my house.
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Old 09-09-21, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by 50PlusCycling
One could try to climb up the outside of the building to get to our 40th floor apartment, but that would be a feat worth seeing.
the crackheads in DC would find a way.
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Don't live in an apartment, but if I did, I would.
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Old 09-09-21, 07:15 AM
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bikes are in the garage with garage door locked, but the bikes themselves are not locked up

if ppl are entering your house and stealing bikes, personally I would move
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Old 09-09-21, 10:07 AM
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We live in a multi-unit building, the bikes stay in the (shared) parking garage in the basement, locked through one of those incredibly heavy ABUS chains which then goes through a kryptonite anti-theft wall anchor.

Someone could certainly wait nearby with an angle grinder and a spare battery, sneak in behind a neighbor’s car, wait for said neighbor to leave and go to town with the angle grinder, hoping that nobody else comes in or out in whatever smallish amount of time it takes. They’d also be on camera.

That someone would get a bike or two and I’d have to file an insurance claim, which would be a huge bummer. But nothing in life is completely risk free!
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Old 09-09-21, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Flip Flop Rider
bikes are in the garage with garage door locked, but the bikes themselves are not locked up

if ppl are entering your house and stealing bikes, personally I would move
In my case, we forgot to lock the front door. Otherwise, it would not have been an issue. Only incident in over 16 years. The upside is that I can walk, take the bus or ride to work easily as well as shop, go out for dinner, etc. I am also close to a huge park complex and can ride out of the city with ease. The car I brought home at the beginning of July, 2016 just went over 13,000 miles last week.
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Old 09-10-21, 07:02 AM
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My apartment is too small to keep my bikes inside.

I keep them both outside in hallway beside the elevators, and they're both locked up there. Been living in this building for 7 years now without any issues.
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Old 09-10-21, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by jefnvk
I presume you are asking about public areas? Mine were always stored in private areas (e.g., my living room or a spare bedroom), not in community areas.

Most apartment complexes I have ever lived frowned on bike storage in public areas, make sure you know the rules.
I once had my bike, and the bikes of a lot of other people in the complex, stolen from the lock-up underground garage. The key-card gate on the garage had broken down and defaulted to open, and the thieves drove in in (presumably) a van, cut all the locks, and made off with 20-30 bikes.

After that, I kept my (replacement) bike locked in the stairwell next to my apartment, and told the building staff to shove it and provide a secure lockup whenever they told me I wasn't allowed keep my bike inside the building. I moved out a couple of months later for unrelated reasons.

I believe there is an above-ground, secure bike lockup, separate to the car parking, at that complex now, but they were lucky enough to have the space to offer the option.
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Old 09-10-21, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
In my case, we forgot to lock the front door. Otherwise, it would not have been an issue. Only incident in over 16 years. The upside is that I can walk, take the bus or ride to work easily as well as shop, go out for dinner, etc. I am also close to a huge park complex and can ride out of the city with ease. The car I brought home at the beginning of July, 2016 just went over 13,000 miles last week.
so no incidents until one day the door was left unlocked, and on that day something was stolen? Scary to think that ppl are checking those doors
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Old 09-10-21, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Flip Flop Rider
so no incidents until one day the door was left unlocked, and on that day something was stolen? Scary to think that ppl are checking those doors
Yep. It was a week before Christmas in the big city. My father practiced criminal defense his entire legal career. Business always picked up greatly around Christmas.

Lost my irreplaceable custom Robert Beckman racks, along with the Surly LHT they were attached to, and my flip phone. Guy left behind the two custom IFs. The brazen part was that we were home and awake in the bedroom watching the late news.
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managment/

even if you trust them having the door key still lock it-why make it easy for a thief? I lock them in the house with doors dead bolted when out.a friend had his Waterford stolen when landlord allowed a worker inside.zero recourse.have renters insurance???
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