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I guess it depends what kinda theif you are up against. But i agree at the moment with not many people doing the special bolt thing it is unlikely. If it became popular tho and was as easy as just walking into any hardware store...[/quote]
you've hit the nail on the head there i think - it's all about popularity. The analogy would be computer viruses i guess - PC are vunerable
to viruses co they're so common. Macs (until recently anyway) were much less common so were less vunerable to attack. The "bad guys"
were less likely to have the tools/info or the inclination to write malicious code for them I think.
a really good advantage you can gain is by not only having a hardcore lock but an unusual hardcore lock that the theif hasn't seen
before. I'm going on a bit -and not being very eloquent - but some sort of unusual new bolt fixing would probably keep away a good percentage of
theives simply by virtue of being a bit different to those on all the other bikes (and the tools they are carrying)