Making your bike theft-resistant

I just want to say to anyone spending good money on pitlocks and variants. They are no more secure than nutted wheels. They may be a very slight deterrent to an inexperienced thief but that is it.

I work in a bike shop, and people come in all the time with bikes with security skewers. They always either never have the tools on them or have lost them. In the shop we just use a small plumbers wrench. They come off easier than wheelnuts, and can be done up just as easy.

Sorry to be a dick but r u definitely thinking about pitlocks.

I’ve read on here that thieves could just crush the outer casing with bolt cutters and I can then imagine it’s super easy to remove.

Because the outer casing is separated from everything else and is supposed to spin without catching the locking bolt I can’t see how using a wrench would open them without crushing the unit. Plus the outer is smooth and round and the sides are not parallel so a wrench would get very little grip, I’ve just tried a wrench on mine and it just slipped off, the outer casing was spinning 'freely' clockwise but I couldn’t get it to move anticlockwise.

Presuming the washer and the other separate parts did catch and u managed to open it this way it’s much harder for me to imagine how you would then get the thing to tighten back up because the bolt would just spin freely inside.

My bike has been in the shop twice with pitlocks attached and both times they told me there was nothing they could do until I gave them they key.

I’m not suggesting pitlocks r the nuts and I can think of a few ways a thief could probably open them up it’s just that I’m surprised to hear it’s as easy as u say.