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Recommend me a bike lock please
Just moved to Manchester and I'm intending to do quite a bit of cycling into the city centre. Can anyone recommend me a good bike lock? Atm this one seems quite good:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Lock-Street-280x110mm-1200x10mm/dp/B000XRQ8UQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1284716002&sr=8-1
Its sold secure gold rated and only £21.49, only thing is reviews mention sticky lock barrels. My bike isn't actually worth anything tbh, its quite an old secondhand one but I would be very annoyed if it was taken as its well maintained and has decent tyres on etc. Its more the inconvenience than the monetary loss. I think we bought it secondhand for about £60 with insurance money about 7 years ago.
I was looking in Halfords and saw a sign recommending spending 15% of the bike's value on a lock - that doesn't really work for me! The other sold secure shackle type locks I was looking at I've seen videos on youtube of them being opened with ballpoint pens etc. :eek:
If anyone could recommend something, maybe a bit cheaper would be nice, I'd be grateful...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Lock-Street-280x110mm-1200x10mm/dp/B000XRQ8UQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1284716002&sr=8-1
Its sold secure gold rated and only £21.49, only thing is reviews mention sticky lock barrels. My bike isn't actually worth anything tbh, its quite an old secondhand one but I would be very annoyed if it was taken as its well maintained and has decent tyres on etc. Its more the inconvenience than the monetary loss. I think we bought it secondhand for about £60 with insurance money about 7 years ago.
I was looking in Halfords and saw a sign recommending spending 15% of the bike's value on a lock - that doesn't really work for me! The other sold secure shackle type locks I was looking at I've seen videos on youtube of them being opened with ballpoint pens etc. :eek:
If anyone could recommend something, maybe a bit cheaper would be nice, I'd be grateful...
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Yeah that's a bit pricey tbh but thanks.0
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ABUS all the way.
They make the top motorbike locks on the market, so must be good enough for a bicycle.
They don't make any gimmicky claims or offer free insurance or any other nonsense, they're just seriously strong locks.
I have the Abus Steel-O-Flex Centuro 860 protecting my £1000+ mountain bike.
It's a sturdy cable lock with metal "shells" interlinked over the top of the cable.
You might also want to consider the cheap bike alarms that sell on Ebay, the 105dB shock sensitive siren MIGHT be enough to put off the opportunist.
There are however no guarantee's, there's a video on Youtube where a guy sets up a bike theft using a battery powered angle grinder.... People just walk on by.
You'll never stop the determined thief, but if you can stop the opportunist you reduce your chances of walking home by a very large percentage
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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I'll have a look at those thanks. Yeah the insurance that comes with some is rather pointless for me anyway as the bike's worth nothing really.Strider590 wrote: »ABUS all the way.
They make the top motorbike locks on the market, so must be good enough for a bicycle.
They don't make any gimmicky claims or offer free insurance or any other nonsense, they're just seriously strong locks.
I have the Abus Steel-O-Flex Centuro 860 protecting my £1000+ mountain bike.
It's a sturdy cable lock with metal "shells" interlinked over the top of the cable.
You might also want to consider the cheap bike alarms that sell on Ebay, the 105dB shock sensitive siren MIGHT be enough to put off the opportunist.
There are however no guarantee's, there's a video on Youtube where a guy sets up a bike theft using a battery powered angle grinder.... People just walk on by.0 -
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Yeah, they're made in China and branded for small UK companies and ebay businesses, but they're all the same thing.
The siren seems to be rated at 80dB or over 100dB, not sure which is true..... I'd say 100+, but only at close range due to it's small size.
They use a 9v battery and you clamp them up so that the battery compartment is inaccessible.
Use either an Alkaline or Zinc carbon battery, the later being much cheaper of course.
Very good little item, would give thieves a bit of a shock!“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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I love my ABUS folding bike lock. It's made of sections hinged together so it easily goes round the frame, wheel and whatever you're chaining the bike up to, but much stronger than a chain, and it folds up nice and neatly and doesn't get in the way.0
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Kryptonite New York lock, one of the best on the market not cheap and weighs in at 2.6kg so can be used for self defence purposes and to remind motorists not to get too close.
You really need two locks from two different companies as most thieves will go tooled up to do one type of lock, me personally I would never lock a bike up for longer then an hour anywhere and if I was ever to cycle to work I would buy myself a Brompton and lock it to the vending machine at work or to the receptionist.0 -
oh and check out Parker International for locks as they usually come in cheaper then other sites.0
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