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Perhaps an obvious question on the face of it but what do fellow campers do with their sometimes very valuable bikes at night.

1. Do you bring them in the tent at night (if there is room) an chain them up.

2. Lock them in the car (if there is room)

3. Lock them to the cycle carrier

or is something I haven't considered.

Cheers Bryn

We have a fair old pile of bikes. (See my profile pix for the bike stack behind the TT!) Usually we either leave them locked on the roof of the car or (more commonly) make a bike nest. We lean them together, preferably with a tree or fixed pole in the middle then add half a dozen cable locks, chains and such to lock them all together in a snarl. Then at night we add a tarp and half a dozen bungie cords. It would take a very determined thief to work their way through the resultant monkey puzzle in a hurry and as we leave them in sight of the entire campsite, for preference, it would also take a brazen one. There's easier prey. We've not lost a bike yet, not in thirty years, and some of them have been pretty valuable, like in the £2000+ range.