One of those wirelocks for bikecycles (that locks to itselfe) are good for seuring helmets,jackets, and all other thing that you can loop the wire throug.
And its cheep.

Happy camping!

Have a look at these for securing your helmet and gear to the bike.I spoke at length to the guy from pacsafe at a trade show last week and i'm very impressed with the concept!Totally waterproof,theftproof soft luggage! www.pac-safe.com

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I have 2 metres of 5mm steel cable sheathed in plastic; when threaded through my gear i.e. helmet, boots, jacket, tank bag, rucksac, boxes.
the opportunist thief would need a fork lift to shift shift my stuff. Its cheap, lightweight, gives 80% peace of mind and seems to work.

PS also requires a half decent padlock.


PK

Hi, have camped all over Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia and so far nothing touched, I also put small padlocks on the tent when out for the day, it wont stop anyone slashing your tent to get stuff but that kind of thing generally atracts attention. Only time I ever had stuff knicked was from outside a hotel in India, my 5 litre water carrier and a tank of fuel dissapeard, guess they used one for the other and they managed it without waking the sleeping night watchman.
Chris.

Safe as houses
 

Hey Dan,

I can only speak from my own experience of France, Spain and Slovenia (from your lovely list), and absolutely agree with previous posts.

At the end of the day, people are opportunists. Make it easy enough, and even the conscientious might be tempted.

Pick a camping spot where you aren't too hidden away. If you can't see your tent, no one else will either. At the same time pitching near a lamp post can keep you awake at night (I relocated as soon as I woke up the next morning LOL).

I had absolutely no problems getting my bike in close to my tent. In some areas, where I got lazy/blaze', I was actually encouraged to put my bike next to my tent (not for safety, but because the camp site owners knew the score with bikers and figured I would be happier that way).

A lock on the tent (and also on your valuables inside it - pac-safe cables are great) make all the difference in making you feel more at ease going out for a bit. If you use combination locks though, make sure you have a light/torch with you - they can be buggers to unlock in the dark!!

Some of the campsite offices will also be happy to lock some of your things away for you.

All the better too if there happen to be fellow bike travellers at any of the sites you pull into.

Start practicing your best sing-song Spanish with all the 'tha's' for AndaluTHia
:)

Happy camping!

Probably stating the obvious here but if and when parking the bike near or close to the tent park it in such a way that if it does for whatever reason fall over it doesn't fall on you in your tent or your neighbour! Strong winds in ireland nearly caused this to happen to me.
Generally speaking on the security theme, my theory is out of sight out of mind, bie covers are a good thing. Lock your tent up as best you can within reason and take anything really essential i.e money, passports, bike keys etc with you.

You use a kevlar tent right?
 

well you should with your reputation
TTFN
Martha

I've been camping all over Europe for the last couple of years (well most of Europe) and never had any trouble. Of course if you make it easy enough people might feel tempted and steal something but as long as you're careful enough (careful not being spelled p-a-r-a-n-o-i-d!) you should be fine

For instance, I remember last year on Corsica, when the only thing I locked securely to a tree was actually my bike, didn't even have a padlock on the tent or anything. When we left the campground during the day I had my rear hard case and my panniers locked securely to the bike, and sometimes we even didn't feel like it and simply left'em in the tent but had all our valuables with us. That's all the precautions we took during our entire trip and we ended up fine.