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Abus bordo / Specialized Wedlock - any good?
I'm just buying a new bike and figure as i live in London, someone is
going to try and nick it. I've been looking at locks and I like these folding types for their portability, but the fact that they aren't used more often makes me nervous. Pictures here www.abus.de/us/main.asp?ScreenLang=us&sid=66476076810260609122006 8613717454&select=0104b11&artikel=4003318335679' abus bordo http://www.epinions.com/bike-Locks-A...splay_~reviews Wedlock, dont think they make it any more Could you break the abus? How? etc. Cheers Dom |
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Abus bordo / Specialized Wedlock - any good?
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oups.com... I'm just buying a new bike and figure as i live in London, someone is going to try and nick it. I've been looking at locks and I like these folding types for their portability, but the fact that they aren't used more often makes me nervous. Pictures here www.abus.de/us/main.asp?ScreenLang=us&sid=66476076810260609122006 8613717454&select=0104b11&artikel=4003318335679' abus bordo http://www.epinions.com/bike-Locks-A...splay_~reviews Wedlock, dont think they make it any more Could you break the abus? How? etc. Cheers Dom Basically if a thief really wants your bike, nothing will stop them. A battery powered grinder with a cutoff disc will make short work of any lock system. Even the immovable object you are locked to might be easier to cut through too. Then work on the lock system later at your convenience. Your best bet is to make it hard enough for most theives to go on and steal a easier to steal bike elsewhere or nearby. Thieves have been known to follow a rider home and burgle their abode later. Easier to stral at home. So lock you bike up at home too. The abus bordo link lock does look pretty good, about has hard as the good U locks. So it would work OK. The other one too. I do not know how they'd stand up to a hydraulic jack attack though. That is where you take a small hydraulic jack and stretch it out until something breaks, the jack or the lock system or the immovable object. |
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Abus bordo / Specialized Wedlock - any good?
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"landotter" writes: Unless your bike is very desirable, I find the best compromise is a mini Ulock used like this: ^^^^ http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html /Mini/ U-lock?! If I was to get another one, I'd want a wider one. All too often the one I've got is 1/32" too narrow to go around whatever I'm locking to. Of course, even with a wider U-lock I'd expect to still encounter the same problem. Maybe I should pack along a 10" double-milled *******, and file-down that oversized stuff 'til my (and other people's) U-lock fits. Heck, maybe I'd be canonized for it by other riders who've also suffered that particular frustration. cheers, & it ain't how long it is -- it's how wide it is, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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Abus bordo / Specialized Wedlock - any good?
Its not top of the range or anything, but it will be v. nice and brand
new when it arrives, so theft risk is nightmarish in London (i think it would probably still be bad if I was riding my rusting old Raleigh boxer from 20 years ago) Looking at the abus website I'm confident that its made of some pretty solid stuff, they are a well respected lockmaker, and using unhardened steel for the shackles would be a bit of a schoolboy error to earn their "level 8/10 security". Obviously if someone knows that this is in fact not true please pipe up! My desire for this lock was based on the comment that i've seen a few times, that "Professional thieves generally specialise in one type of lock.." Given no-one has this type, i guess that means they wouldn't be speicalising in it. I intend to pair it with a cable lock, the thinking being that the hardnend links would need a levering/prying/freezing and smashing tool to open but would not be vulnerable to a bolt cropper, whereas the cable lock would need a bolt cropper but would be too long to pry. Tom Keats wrote: In article .com, "landotter" writes: Unless your bike is very desirable, I find the best compromise is a mini Ulock used like this: ^^^^ http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html /Mini/ U-lock?! If I was to get another one, I'd want a wider one. All too often the one I've got is 1/32" too narrow to go around whatever I'm locking to. Of course, even with a wider U-lock I'd expect to still encounter the same problem. Maybe I should pack along a 10" double-milled *******, and file-down that oversized stuff 'til my (and other people's) U-lock fits. Heck, maybe I'd be canonized for it by other riders who've also suffered that particular frustration. cheers, & it ain't how long it is -- it's how wide it is, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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