Best Motorcycle Shelters

If you don’t have a shed or garage to keep your motorbike in, then it will have to stay exposed to the elements and prying eyes of potential thieves. While a cover will help protect it from sun and rain, a folding motorcycle shelter can be more convenient, offering an easier way to cover your bike.

Rather than stretching a cover over the bike to fit where they touch and potentially trap moisture against the body, wheels and engine, motorcycle shelters fold over the bike and don’t generally touch it. So, if the bike is put away wet, then the moisture has the space to dissipate. This is far more beneficial in the long term and less likely to result in the usual pitfalls of keeping a bike outside, such as rusty chains, corroded fasteners and seized calipers.

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Also, if it is windy, for example, then there is less chance of the material moving against the bike’s paintwork and damaging it in a motorcycle shelter.

And in some cases, the framework of the cover can be locked, adding a degree of security as well. That’s on top of locking the bike to a ground anchor inside the shelter, for example. It also keeps your pride and joy away from prying eyes and out of temptation’s way – contrary to the fact that theft rings appear highly organised, most crimes are carried out by opportunists.

So here are some options to store your bike outside easily and securely in a motorcycle shelter.

The best motorcylcle shelters:

Alternative options

Here’s a little list of other options which may be suited to you if you want something a bit bigger or smaller than the above.

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