Locks

I like this thread. I guy from Boston going I don't know how you put up with everyone being a criminal! Then people from England going I don't know how you cope with everyone having a gun!

It'll turn into I don't know how you cope riding whilst obese or I don't know how you cope riding with such bad food. National stereotyping in sympathy.

Ed's right though, we bitch and gripe about bad motorists when we encounter the 1 out of 100 (not accurate, don't bitch), but mostly it's fine. Bike theft is a huge problem when you get your bike stolen, but it hasn't happened every other day for the last however-long-you've-been-riding.

No reason not to be sensible with locks and defensive whilst cycling but it's nowhere near as bad as T_M has been lead to believe.

Admittedly my main source of hearsay about cycling in England was probably try to impress with tales of daring-do...

BTW, sorry for sidetracking this thread, I was just taken in by talk of hydraulic cutting tools.

does anyone have any ideas about these locks??
http://www.magnum.ws/Magnum/3039.htm
sold secure, seems to be insured up to £1400.

Has anyone heard of one of these Abus locks being defeated?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Abus_Granit_Steel_O_Flex_1000_100cm_Cable_Lock/5220000043/

I use one as a courier and mine has been attacked with cutters - only went through the plastic cover and left a puny scratch. I'm about to start using a nicer bike and wondered if I was using a good enough lock..? Experiences? Rumours? Ta.

i've had this lock for over 10 years of couriering and domestic use and it still works fine. its got all sorts of nibble marks on it from skidders trying to steal my bike but no one has had any luck. i recommend this lock to everyone.

Also, one time some guys broke into our back yard and stole all the bikes there except my one... although to be fair it didn't stop them stealing everything off the frame. nothing worse than seeing your bike looking like a picked over chicken carcass.

I don't know how any of us manage to ride while drinking tea.

See the locks that work thread. My Fuji went when someone neatly snipped the Steel-O-Flex.

We only get our bikes stolen all the time because we're too reserved to ask them not to.

I don't know how any of us manage to ride while drinking tea.

i'm looking for a mini d lock in addition to my kryptonite lock. So i don't want to fork out on an evo, especially as i think it would be better to have two makes of lock. So is thereany decent (but cheap) mini ds out there as an alternative to the evolution and that palmy lock?
Any help much appreciated, thanks

had a key snap in a steel-o-flex, no money back from wiggle because "the warranty is for the lock, not the key". Had to call a locksmith to grind it off, he had it done under a minute

U-locks ftw

I went to London's famous London once with a bicycle and was killed stone dead.

i'm looking for a mini d lock in addition to my kryptonite lock. So i don't want to fork out on an evo, especially as i think it would be better to have two makes of lock. So is thereany decent (but cheap) mini ds out there as an alternative to the evolution and that palmy lock?
Any help much appreciated, thanks

the evo isn't that expensive, it's about £25-30 mate, there's nowt wrong with that lock.

I went to London's famous London once with a bicycle and was killed stone dead.

Yeah, sorry about that. wasn't paying attention.

It's amazing what mishaps can occur when using a feather duster.

the evo isn't that expensive, it's about £25-30 mate, there's nowt wrong with that lock.

fool! I only looked on wiggle and in my lbs, should of known you could get them cheaper than £44.

thank you

i'm looking for a mini d lock in addition to my kryptonite lock. So i don't want to fork out on an evo, especially as i think it would be better to have two makes of lock. So is thereany decent (but cheap) mini ds out there as an alternative to the evolution and that palmy lock?
Any help much appreciated, thanks

The onguard pitbull mini u might be good. It's got a double locking mechanism like the bigger krypto's have got which the evo doesnt

I've got the Pitbull mini and have reccommended it to several others. Have had it for 2 years and no-one's messed with it. Excellent lock for £35

lol

Not to jinx myself, but I can't believe what you Brits put up with in terms of bicycle theft and dangerous encounters with motorists.

It's funny, 'cos we can't believe what you Americans put up with in terms of the latter, where motorists seem to have a blatant disregard for cyclists. Especially as it's almost unheard of for a UK motorist to be armed, in the US you just don't know do you?

You put up with what you're used to.

Forget bikes... I cant belive the shit you both put up with on television.