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@camisetaroja
Hello from Spain!
I'm sorry about my english skills, I hope don't hurt too much yours eyes with my mistakes.
This year I decided to go to college with my MTB, not very expensive, about 500€ when I buy in 2005-2006?
It's not a very valuable bike, but is "eye catching", but far less than the new bikes.
The college has a CCTV, and a "guard", but is usually open and they don't control the access (No ID check or that kind of things).
The area sorrounding the college is not the best. I see many cars with their windows broken to pick things, about one or two every week, mostly from rent cars or cars without spanish plates. So we have thief.
So, the area is not very good. But the college isn't bad, in fact i think is better than other many colleges.
My main problem is, well, I know a good D/U lock is the best (i read about 20 pages from this thread), and also gigant chains also work, but in my college they only have a lot of stupid round pipes without any shape, and a mix of "barriers" to separate spaces.
I think this barriers aren't enough strong to fix my bike to them, they have far less metal than this one:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8026/7129395579_6f4442fd3a_b.jpg
You can see an example in front of the college:
https://maps.google.es/?ll=37.183987,-3.595339&spn=0.00054,0.001321&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=37.183938,-3.59542&panoid=28q5gK0gL0wDJCXltohhgw&cbp=12,64.84,,2,11.89
They are bend, even they have reinforcement to avoid bend more.
So I think the best way is fix my bike to the basket pole in the college.
But the pole is bigger to fix it with a D/U lock. So I think i should go to a chain. But they are soooo big and weight a ton. And they are expensive.
I'm thinking to buy a 11mm chain from pragmasis protector, and squire lock, and a alarm disk to call atention.
But here you say "less than 16mm" and you can see your bike lost.
So, maybe a 16mm pragmasis protector and leave just on college?
But if I leave on college I need another lock if I use the bike on the city!
And again, here in spain bike parking are uncommon and the vast of things enough strong to attach a bike are build colums and similar.
So I need another chain+lock. And light enough to carry for long time.
Help?
Thanks again, and sorry about my english.