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29/6/2015 at 6:27pm
Location: Hampshire
Outfit: Outwell Montana 6P tent
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Fancy taking the bikes for all of us to ride out (ie not round the campsite). We have bikes: his, mine, 2 children's bikes and a bike seat.
Please explain bike security and storage to me and what the options are. They will travel on the tow bar.
At home they are padlocked and in the garage and on our home insurance. Do not wish them to 'go missing' through me being stupid with security!
What do you all do? Advice and help please.
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29/6/2015 at 7:16pm
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we have a decent length chain that goes thr the bikes and then overnight the bikes are under the van with the chain thr them and thr the chassis
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29/6/2015 at 7:20pm
Location: Sheffield
Outfit: Sterling Eccles Sport 636
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We lock ours to the caravan at night. Never lost one yet.
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29/6/2015 at 7:24pm
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Thanks. We have a tent so nothing to attach bikes to.
We also may have a trailer with us.
What do you use to keep them dry? Being in England we tend to have lots of rain in the summer.
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29/6/2015 at 8:25pm
Location: Derby.
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Keep 'em on the tow bar...
In our case, it's only two bikes, on a tilting carrier, so no need to remove them to get in the boot.
The carrier is locked to the tow ball.
The arms that clamp to the cross bars have locking knobs.
I then travel with a length of heavy duty chain* from B&Q (cut and sold by the metre, if I recall?) wrapped around/through bikes and carrier. I think I got the thickest they had. Think the links are 8mm thick steel? Took some cutting in the shop... any thieves would need the very big/heavy bolt croppers at least!
To stop the chain falling off, I attach one of
these... 
Alarm off when actually travelling, then set it when parked up out of sight/overnight etc.
We also have a "normal" bike lock for each bike, but rarely use them on the carrier. I did put both through everything when overnighting in a French hotel though, so that meant two bike locks plus the alarmed chain that needed cutting to get them off!
* Our chain is "plain", without any form of protection, so it does scratch the bikes. Not too bothered as they are fairly cheap bikes, and a few scratches look less appealing to others! You can get various chains in sheaths or plastic coated, if required.
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29/6/2015 at 8:38pm
Location: Sheffield
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Lock them to your car if you are tenting. We have 2 long lengths of bike cable linked together. Like a chain only rubber coated so it doesn't scratch and chip everything. Then a good d lock once it's threaded through all 4 bikes.
You only need a mild deterrent as most don't lock their bikes at all from my experience.
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30/6/2015 at 1:29pm
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Like the chain and locks and alarm when left on your car.
Our bike rack, when camping, cannot tilt as we have a removable tow bar and a trailer actually on the tow bar as well as the bike rack. (If you do not believe this do Google it - a witter one!)
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30/6/2015 at 6:32pm
Location: North Yorkshire
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Unless it is a biking holiday we take our older hybrid bikes, purposefully leaving the expensive jobs at home. Sad that we have to think that way, but we do, despite them being insured!
We tend to chain them to a big tree if there is one next to our tent once they are off and as well as fastening them to the tree we lock them all together with big covered security chains, using 3 or 4 in total.
We do the same when they are on top of the car - hard to remove all three together without making a big noise.
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01/7/2015 at 11:27pm
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Aah the hybrid bikes.
Do you have the
A. 'We can go faster than you' bikes?
OR
B. The 'we can cycle all day' bikes?
We have the 'I've had enough NOW children' after about an hour or so. Though to be fair last time we went out ds (7) went over the handle bars and had a mouthful of mud. It was down hill in a mixed woodland with lots of tree roots.
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We take them into Cambridge a fair bit along the river path so are not precious at all about them. 
