Bestest lightest convenient lock

[Ming the Merciless]

A brake cable, two cable clamps to create loops, a padlock. Wrap it in tape, pocket it. You can cut it with cable cutters. Sure. Who takes them to the chippy? You can't do it with no rmal pliers.

Brake cables a piece of piss with normal pliers. Did it years before got proper cutters

 

[battered]

Brake cables a piece of piss with normal pliers. Did it years before got proper cutters

Not with any of my pliers. A cold chisel and a hammer, yes, but I can take any bike off anyone with a hammer.

It's a light lock, while he's in the takeaway. It's a compromise. if a brake cable's not enough, plait 3 together. Or use a motorbike brake cable. Or a car clutch cable. His choice.

 

[slowmotion]

I've got a cheap (£7?) cable lock. I think it might be a Masterlock one but it's so old that any lettering must have rubbed off long ago. With the plastic sheathing, the cable is about 9mm diameter. It won't take a second to cut with any old sharp cutters, but it will stop somebody hopping on my bike and riding off. That's all that I need if I nip into a corner shop. It lives curled round my seat post and top tube and is about a metre long.

 

[Blue Hills]

The Defcon comes with a laptop adapter thingie so you can use it for that, too 😊

basically because that's what it was originally designed for.

 

[Blue Hills]

I'd use one of the neon locks
Amazon product ASIN B07L9K2Y6RView: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Onguard-U-Lock-Unisex-Anti-Theft-Orange/dp/B07L9K2Y6R

A D lock - lighter than many if not as secure obvs.
Uses a fair amount of plastic.
I use mine for locking outside supermarkets etc or on tour.
Wouldn't use for long-term parking in many cities.
I have a heavy duty Abus for that.
I would never use one of those light wire things - they are for lightweight day racers sat beside their bike at a cafe table to stop a quick grab and run - nothing else.

 

[Justinitus]

I use an Otto Lock when I’m just nipping in somewhere and I can still see the bike. It rolls up really small and weights 140g or so - for a tiny cafe lock it’s really decent, but not cheap. £45 or so on Amazon.
https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock

 

[froze]

The lightest lock on the market, which also is strong enough for what you're wanting to do, is the TiGr Mini, it weighs 400 grams, made of titanium, it's only big enough to go around the frame and the rear tire then to a pole, it's not cheap but it works. https://tigrlock.com/products/tigrmini

 

[neil_merseyside]

The lightest lock on the market, which also is strong enough for what you're wanting to do, is the TiGr Mini, it weighs 400 grams, made of titanium, it's only big enough to go around the frame and the rear tire then to a pole, it's not cheap but it works. https://tigrlock.com/products/tigrmini

Except it isn't that good:-
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzyHJw50V8
the newer heavier steel one may be better

 

[ColinJ]

I'd be worried about thieves with bolt cutters or portable angle grinders, not expert lock-pickers!

 

[neil_merseyside]

I'd be worried about thieves with bolt cutters or portable angle grinders, not expert lock-pickers!

Ah but in the intro to picking of the hardened steel one he says the previous titanium one can be cut, hence why they made the hardened steel version

 

[Dogtrousers]

I never leave a bike locked and unattended in a public place for more than a minute or two, and the places I leave them are generally not busy places. So I think I'd have to be extraordinarily unlucky for a properly equipped thief to happen along at just that time, and to act quickly and decisively to attack my Abus Bordo (or whatever thing it's locked to)

 

[ColinJ]

Ah but in the intro to picking of the hardened steel one he says the previous titanium one can be cut, hence why they made the hardened steel version

I reckon that an angle grinder with a decent cutting blade could cut through that pretty quickly?

I'm still looking for an angle grinder attack video, but this one shows bolt cutter and hacksaw attacks...



Pretty impressive!

(In case you don't bother watching the whole video - he didn't want to damage a new lock so he got the manufacturer to send him a strip of metal to test.)

 

[neil_merseyside]

I never leave a bike locked and unattended in a public place for more than a minute or two, and the places I leave them are generally not busy places. So I think I'd have to be extraordinarily unlucky for a properly equipped thief to happen along at just that time, and to act quickly and decisively to attack my Abus Bordo (or whatever thing it's locked to)

The lock picking lawyer has picked one (I doubt scrotes do) the nut splitter on a link pin worked but lasted well, I've not seen the cutting of a link yet (but probably by a cordless wizzer)

 

[neil_merseyside]

I reckon that an angle grinder with a decent cutting blade could cut through that pretty quickly?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywN558dJaU
from 2:25

 

[ColinJ]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywN558dJaU
from 2:25

Yep...

Looks like the best protection is to lock a much cheaper bike more securely than the much more expensive bikes next to it!

PS But then the thieves steal ALL of them!