Originally Posted by
ratdog
Glad you got in, but breaking in through doors generally will require no more than a crow bar. I can describe the way to do so, but don't think it's good practice to educate anyone on this. Suffice to say to properly secure the door you should get a pry guard put on and put in multiple locks with the longest dead bolts possible and space this out so that the locks are not at the same locations since the middle of the door frame will flex the most.
To get the bike, someone would have to break the main door of the building in a quiet neighborhood, as everyone knows everyone in the building and people don't let strangers in (they wait outside until buzzed in). Then they'd have to break open the cellar door in a tiny hallway where everything reverberates where old people with nothing better to do reside. Then they'd be in the basement and they'd have to choose my storage room (from 15 3m x 3m rooms) in the basement where you can't see into any of them (so it would be probability based). Then they'd have to snap my lock, get the bike up stairs and out the door without making much noise. Sure, I guess they could steal it ... but it's probably only worth at most 300-400€ used (50% of MSRP) and that seems like a huge amount of work for a couple hundred €.
just steal the bikes off the street as their are many 800-1000€ bikes chained to lightposts on my street.