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Cheap vs Expensive Bike Locks?
Forget price.
It ALL depends on coming back to find your bike where you left it!
Niemals ein Rad unbeaufsichtigt lassen und das in die Planung der Tour mit ein planen.
Ich brauch kein Schloss.
Mein Sportgerät ist bei mir oder in der Wohnung an der Wand 🥰
Trotzdem schöner Test zum gucken
any actual thiefs:why cut lock when you can cut bike rack?
Just buy a cheap £100 fixie for city commuting
2:18 attention is fine. you just have to act like you own the bike and most people will leave u alone. i know because i have had to cut my own lock couple times and no one called police and i was cutting the lock like good 15 minutes.
In a group, take turns with one person staying with the bikes, while the others go inside the building!
can you please do a follow up on the top performers, use a diamond cutting disc, as mentioned.
I don't ever understand the angle grinder test. How and where are you parking your bike where this becomes a risk? Just make sure you always lock it up in a very public area with plenty of foot traffic (and even the occasional patrol car if possible) and no thief in their right mind would be coming out there with an angle grinder. If you need to lock your bike up overnight in front of your flat, then that's a different story.
Fabulous and engaging review one of the best I've seen that really explains things well. It's been mentioned before but I think it is necessary to test with a diamond disc. Because however expensive they are if someone's stealing a 3,000 mountain bike then they're probably going to invest in the best tools. Diamond discs are interesting because they need to be kept cool to certain extent. Just be interesting perhaps there's a little supplement or part 2 looking at the big boys. Also presumably you've still got the locks so there's no need to buy new locks just cut a different part of it. But thanks again very good video.
I had to blink twice and pinch myself then when I saw Jamie Williams in this video –
he was in my cycling club at Uni in Swansea 🏴 Nice to see you again Jamie, from Regan!
If they steal your bike just buy a new bike.
What is the point of buying a hardened lock when you attach it to mild steel fixtures?
D16 and Litelock did the best in another test
The linked chain type of lock can be easily defeated by using a nut splitter against the articulated joint, there's a video short on here of someone using a pipe cutter on the steel ground staple in broad daylight, the lock wasn't touched , it was just passed through the cut section of ground staple, the lock wasn't even through the wheel so he just rode it away as the person filming called out but did nothing….quite usual for big UK cities these days.
I like the idea of a D-Lock, I just find them impractical. I struggle to get them through the frame and round something solid.
Have you tried to cut the Kryptonite New York Diamond at the shackle as close as possible to the lock body? There's a video on YouTube showing that the lock could be easily defeated by angle grinder at that particular weak spot, because the anti-grinder material doesn't cover all the way.
(Edit: typo)