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@BrickMan
Amazing story!
But, decathlon bike + decathlon lock, right outside the flagship store? Seriously have a word with them, I know the exact lock your talking about, used to work at another store up north and we used to sell a lot of those flex locks.
problem is they look 'hard' enough and about £20 is the sort of budget people will spend on a cheaper bike, but the lock is utter garbage.
The store I worked at we had someone with a £380 bike stolen on day 3 or 4 of ownership with that lock, the guy made enough fuss he got a new bike exactly same as the old one out of it.
At our store we 'had' to have that lock on display to be sold, but then we just put another display over the top of all the bad locks so that it was not really possible to buy them, and when asked we always recommended a d lock or another store to buy a real lock.