Beware of bike thieves at the CAMC Edinburgh site

[Jay586]

It's pretty near some extremely rough areas, not areas of Edinburgh I'd be wandering around at night.

 

[The Fockers]

All the best locks can be bought at motorcycle dealers. Abus Granit are sold secure Gold or Platinum. Expensive? Yes. But do you wnat to keep your bikes?
A movement alarm is a good idea.

 

[The Fockers]

All the best locks can be bought at motorcycle dealers. Abus Granit are sold secure Gold or Platinum. Expensive? Yes. But do you wnat to keep your bikes?
A movement alarm is a good idea.

https://www.abus.com/uk/Consumer/Motorbike

 

[MarkG]

Staying a few nights at the Edinburgh CAMC site. Lots of signs about bike thieves and they have free lockers, so I asked at reception if we could lock the bikes in one. They advised that unless they were ebikes or very expensive they would be fine, so we left them locked on the bike rack.
This morning someone had had a go at getting the bikes, they'd cut through the cable lock but hadn't managed to get it from the rack lock. Better £30 cable lock than the bikes, but a bit annoyed that they advised that they would be ok.
So if you're staying here make sure you lock the bikes in a lockers, whatever their apparent value or advice you get.

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Sadly the problem is the same at the Mortonhall Site on the other side of Edinburgh. We stay here often as my daughter lives nearby. On a visit in October, we had two Raleigh e-bikes and a child’s bike cut off the rack, whilst we were sleeping in the van. They cut through the cables. This was at 3am. There were eight hooded youths, who were ‘tooled’ up. Seen on CCTV. The police were not really interested as it was a local issue and the bikes were low value! (£3000). They said that the thieves were not local!! We only received 50% value through our LV Insurance. Beware.