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where can I go to buy a heavy duty chain?

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I want to start chaining my bike up to the tree in my front lawn instead of lugging it inside every night, but it seems like every bike lock that I've seen in stores isn't long enough to wrap around the trunk... anyone have any idea what type of retail store I should be looking in for like a 10' chain?
 
Home Depot. 🙂

Edit: Any local hardware store should have chain sold by the foot as well. 🙂
 
All of the above, OR a rigging supply store. There you can get grade 8 chain which you won't likely find anywhere else. Not totally impervious to a good set of bolt cutters, but you WILL make the fuckers work to cut the chain...in fact, the lock will be the "weak link." (but a grade 3 or 5 chain will be sufficient for your use...grade 8 chain (certified for crane hoisting) is expensive stuff)
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
All of the above, OR a rigging supply store. There you can get grade 8 chain which you won't likely find anywhere else. Not totally impervious to a good set of bolt cutters, but you WILL make the fuckers work to cut the chain...in fact, the lock will be the "weak link." (but a grade 3 or 5 chain will be sufficient for your use...grade 8 chain (certified for crane hoisting) is expensive stuff)
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Out of curiosity, how is chain "graded" BoomerD?
 
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
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I did some reading after BoomerD dropped science on chain. I never knew anything about chain but after reading up on it I realized industrial chain is pretty bad ass.

If loki springs for 10+ feet of grade 100 5/8" epoxy coated chain, a hardened steel padlock and a chain sheath the thieves are going to need some kind of blowtorch to cut the lock or a goddamned chainsaw to cut down the tree. I think he'll be OK.
 
Get 2 items. One to chain the bike to the tree, and a second to chain the front tire to the body. Doing this double protection will GREATLY decrease the chances of your bike getting stolen. This method is very effective on a college campus, where bike thefts are a rather unfortunate occurrence.
 
Why not just have a shot bend a 9/16 rod into a crescent, weld it to a piece of 3/8x2" flatbar and bolt the sucker through a tree?
 
Is the bike weatherproof?

If you use a chain (and lock) heavy enough to make a prospective thief continue on down the road, the bike will end up getting scratched. You'll also ending up 'lugging' the chain around.

The front of the house? Where everyone passing by could see it? You don't like this bike?
 
Find something other than a tree. There is always something else. If not then drill a hole through the tree and slide your $10 bike wire trough that. the tree will live.
 
Originally posted by: sonambulo
Originally posted by: KLin
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
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I did some reading after BoomerD dropped science on chain. I never knew anything about chain but after reading up on it I realized industrial chain is pretty bad ass.

If loki springs for 10+ feet of grade 100 5/8" epoxy coated chain, a hardened steel padlock and a chain sheath the thieves are going to need some kind of blowtorch to cut the lock or a goddamned chainsaw to cut down the tree. I think he'll be OK.
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If he's going to spend that much on a lock set-up then his bike is worth too much to just leave outside every night.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
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I live in a pretty safe neighborhood and don't have a super expensive name-brand bike (well, it was expensive, but your run of the mill random person walking down the street probably wouldn't realize it since it's not a name brand).

if someone wants it, there's probably not a whole hell of a lot I can do about it, but my concern is more random punk kids walking on their way to school or something who might spend 10 seconds seeing if they can ball-point pen trick the lock or snap the front tire/bike seat off rather than someone walking around with a hacksaw and blow torch.

Originally posted by: seemingly random

The front of the house? Where everyone passing by could see it? You don't like this bike?
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damned if I can think of anywhere else to chain it to... my back yard is a patch of open grass and a parking lot; no fence or anything convenient like that. only other potential alternative is chaining it to the pipe that runs into the outside power meter box on the side of the house.

it's either that or take the bike inside every night, which I don't really want to do (nowhere to put it inside and it's just a pain in the ass to get in since there are a couple tight turns I have to make inside my building)
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
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Originally posted by: seemingly random

The front of the house? Where everyone passing by could see it? You don't like this bike?
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damned if I can think of anywhere else to chain it to... my back yard is a patch of open grass and a parking lot; no fence or anything convenient like that. only other potential alternative is chaining it to the pipe that runs into the outside power meter box on the side of the house.

it's either that or take the bike inside every night, which I don't really want to do (nowhere to put it inside and it's just a pain in the ass to get in since there are a couple tight turns I have to make inside my building)
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I see your dilemma.

You're going to have a weathered bike, a stolen bike, more muscles from carrying it or bruises from tripping over it.

I say move, dump the bike or find a garage or shed in the neighborhood.
 
A cordless dremel with a fiberglass reinforced wheel will cut anything. I used to just bring my bike inside every night, even when I lived in a third floor walk up. A PITA for sure but I never got my bike stolen or vandalized.
 
Originally posted by: sonambulo
Originally posted by: KLin
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
Click to expand...

I did some reading after BoomerD dropped science on chain. I never knew anything about chain but after reading up on it I realized industrial chain is pretty bad ass.

If loki springs for 10+ feet of grade 100 5/8" epoxy coated chain, a hardened steel padlock and a chain sheath the thieves are going to need some kind of blowtorch to cut the lock or a goddamned chainsaw to cut down the tree. I think he'll be OK.
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As long as he uses a drill-proof lock; otherwise it's gone in 60 seconds.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
Personally, I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants your bike, and it's outside all night long, they'll figure out a way to steal it.
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All you need to do is make your bike more difficult to steal than other bikes.
 
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