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@RogerO'Bicycle
Very interesting discussion. I'm now checking out everyones bike locking technique. A popular (but crap) method is to use a chunky D-lock as nothing more than a padlock, with a crappy cable wrapped around the railings!
I ride an old 98 Reynolds 525(?) mountain bike, all rigid, smooth tyres, which i love dearly.
I've been lugging around a Kryptonite M18 that Kryptonite sent me as a replacement after the Bic pen fiasco made my previous RokLok rather pointless.
I recently wanted a lock that's a little bit more every day (and so i can leave the M18 at work), and the M18 didn't come with a bracket, probably intentionally, so I bought one and it's broken two EZ Mounts! Too heavy? Too much leverage, maybe?
For now I've gone for the Evo Mini, just for when I'm in cafés etc. It arrived today from Amazon and it's got a Silver Sold Secure sticker on the box. The copyright on the packaging says 2005, but companies often use the same packaging for years, yet this sticker had been added for the UK market.
Ideally I'll get a Fahg soon too, so that and the Evo Mini will make a good Hackney set-up. And all compatible with the same bracket. I've got Pitlocks on wheels and seatpost too. Maybe headset lock next too.
For what it's worth there's a stripped down Merlin MTB frame in Bloomsbury secured with an Evo Mini. Looks like it's been there for a while, and while the wheels and seat have gone, the very nice frame remains, so that must be some credit to the lock.