Have a family camping trip with 2/3 weeks before IM Copenhagen and want to take my TT bike for some training. Would be great to hear off anyone that goes camping with an expensive bike, how do you secure it? I can put it in the car for safe keeping whilst we are at the site or walking etc. but will be taking some day trips and not really happy with taking bike in car and keep it in there at a public car park. Have emailed the site so see if there are any secure places I could put it but they are not that keen. Any advice?
Lock it to a tree (or similar) and hope for the best. Or bring your cheap bike for training.
One thing I learned from the good old days of Wildflower is avoid thick mud at all cost. Carry the bike over your shoulder instead of walking it around. TT bikes don’t shed mud like other bikes.
I brought a cross bike so I wouldn’t have to worry about finding good roads while I was travelling. It opened it up a bit more, but it’s a compromise because it’s not your TT bike. I did my best to replicate my position as close as I could but it wasn’t that close.
But not having to worry about roads/routes/damage/etc. meant I could just wake up and pop our for a quick ride on whatever roads I came across, wherever I was.
Have a family camping trip with 2/3 weeks before IM Copenhagen and want to take my TT bike for some training. Would be great to hear off anyone that goes camping with an expensive bike, how do you secure it? I can put it in the car for safe keeping whilst we are at the site or walking etc. but will be taking some day trips and not really happy with taking bike in car and keep it in there at a public car park. Have emailed the site so see if there are any secure places I could put it but they are not that keen. Any advice?
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Unless you’re going to be camping for a week or more, AND you’re about a 90% lock for a win in your class, leave the bike at home and enjoy the time with your family.
Do you have another bine you can take that’s less precious ?
For our past camping hols I’ve always taken my 3rd or 4th best bike to ride.(= my2nd or 3rd best MTB at the time - usually a hardtail and some lesss burly tyres). I can still get a decent ride in, but wasn’t as worried about it being locked up but unattended.
How secured ? A couple of the biggest chain locks I could buy, and locked to a Substantial tree , + the bike rack locked to the tree, and the bike locked to the rack too. (A Kryptonite New York chain + lock + a couple of gold std Hiploks.
And in a barriered camp site).
Leave the TT bike safe and secure at home, ready for race day !!
Inside car temperatures are too high in the southeast US for me to feel comfortable leaving the bike in the car. When my family and I go camping, I typically take the backup tri bike (a 2009 Trek TTX 9.5) and either lock it to the bumper of the camper with a tarp over it or I’ll put it in one of the twin bunks in the back of the camper. I also take a wheel-on trainer and that’s my go-to if I can’t find good rails to trails type places to ride using the AllTrails app.
The camping trip is in UK for about 10 days, if it was 5-7 days would probably just run and swim. Unfortunately I don’t have a second Tri Bike and my race bike is a Cervelo P5 so not a ‘cheap’ bike to be locking it up out in the open.
Thinks it maybe a case of taking my road bike, no big deal just wondered what others did.
did this more than once - a week in Yellowstone on the run up to Nationals one year, and other trips. I just take my cheap road bike or MTB and ride that. I feel I don’t lose the memory of the TT position that quickly, and my experience is that training on any bike translates pretty well to any other bike. Also the bike tends not to get treated very well on family camping trips, packed in corners etc, I don’t want to knock my nice TT bike around…
