Secondary Locks

I'm doing my best to find comparative reviews using an Evo Mini as a benchmark. It's not easy.

An Evo Mini can be broken with just a lever as best I can work out by looking at the user submitted pictures on Amazon. It is also thin enough to be bolt cropped (probably). And AFAIK, you only have to cut 1 side and then rotate it rather than cutting both sides. All in all, ***the Evo Mini is not good enough as a primary lock ***as it can be broken with hand tools.

By that standard, is there anything to show how the Futura 64 falls short? The road.cc review showed it can't be bolt cropped that easily at least... http://road.cc/content/review/34832-abus-granit-futura-mini-u-lock. Saying it was not broken in 5 minutes with "the big bolt cutters" and "with the help of a 2 ton bottle jack". If it was tough enough to resist all hand tool attacks, it would be for the "Locks that work" thread ;).

MrDuck, I am hoping that you are the designer of the Abus Futura 64 Mini, and you get a percentage for each of the sales, otherwise your extraordinary efforts seem to be somewhat in vain.

The Evo Mini is the best of the secondary locks. Other locks in its sector come close but do not surpass it. The Evo Mini isn't described anywhere on this forum (as far as I know) as a primary lock. Also, I trust the Bike Radar test of the Futura 64, because they have a set pattern for the tests, and if a lock fails at a certain stage or a certain time, the other locks tested before it and after would have had the same test, so the results are very comparable.

However, it is an 11mm thick lock, and not 13mm-14mm as the rest of the locks in this section are. The Futura 64 could only really compete with the 2 Krabus locks, and the Masterlock in the list. The others are superior mainly because the steel is thicker, and of similarly good quality.