"dgk" wrote in message
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I just got a Kryptonite U-Lock to replace my "lost" chain. It's four
pounds and I don't want to keep carrying it around. I used to leave my
lock/chain around the fence where I locked the bike but the folks who
owned the building decided it shouldn't be there anymore and discarded
it one day (after telling me that it was ok to leave it there two
years earlier).

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I think a very important lesson has been learned. If you are talking about
an ordinary steel chain like this pic
http://www.123rf.com/photo_584695.html , that type of chain can be very
easily cut with a common hardware store bolt cutter, and not much effort.
You are better off without that chain, for bike protection.

I would look for a place to 'store' your new U-Lock, rather than carry it. 4
lbs is way too much weight to carry around, if it can be avoided. No
building maintenance worker is going to try to remove a U-Lock. What they
might do, however, is squirt super glue into it. So the lock is worthless to
you at that point, but they have no way to remove it, either. So they would
be cutting off their nose to spite their face.

J.