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Someone I know who just recently bought the new Boardman Pro Carbon locked it up with a Kryptonite New York standard lock, the one with the 16mm shackle and double locking points. He was locked outside the Waitrose in Wapping.
The tip of the key broke off in the barrel, I have no idea how, but he's a bit ham fisted and not the sharpest tool (more of that later). After calling the fire brigade, who simply laughed at him, he called a locksmith. This 'locksmith' was a man in a van with a battery powered angle grinder. after 20 minutes he was nearly through one side, and ran out of battery. He had a spare battery, and started on the other side, when the disk wore out - changed the disk and finished the other side, allowing the bike to be freed.
All in all it took 45 minutes of cutting with the accompanying shower of sparks!, two full batteries, and a full diamond cutting disk to get through the lock. Some reassurance that your Kryptonite lock is quite a deterrent.