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A hacksaw is a waste of time (and a hammer??? who is he kidding? way too noisy). The last thing a bike thief wants to do is draw attention to himself.Val_Garou said:
You & Sheldon make guite respectable voices on this topic. I understand from Sheldon's site the benefit of securing the relatively expensive real wheel and that cutting the rear wheel while under tension is not as easy as people might think. My question is... just how easy/hard is it to cut or defeat the rear wheel compared to beating a good mini U-lock?MB1 said:Plus the author doesn't know how to use a small U-Lock correctly. It isn't used to lock the frame, it is used to lock the rear wheel inside of the rear triangle to a pole or post (you can secure the front wheel with a cable or another U-Lock). With the U-Lock around the rear rim inside of the rear triangle you have secured the frame and rear wheel.
Don't forget a thief is going to have to cut the tire as well as the rim to get the lock off.PdxMark said:You & Sheldon make guite respectable voices on this topic. I understand from Sheldon's site the benefit of securing the relatively expensive real wheel and that cutting the rear wheel while under tension is not as easy as people might think. My question is... just how easy/hard is it to cut or defeat the rear wheel compared to beating a good mini U-lock?
The OP article did get me researching locks a bit and I think I'll be replacing my Krypto Evolution mini with an Onguard Bulldog mini. My commute parking situation is fair. I'm 4 floors up in in a public parking garage with pretty low public usage. Most people in the garage are in-building commuters. I lock the frame with a mini U-lock and run a good cable through the Team Pro saddle rails and both wheels. The bike is a fixie, so the rear wheel is not as valuable as a multi-gear rear.
You're right about a van pulling up. The one hope there is that the security cams in the garage would at least ID the vehicle involved. My own little fig leaf of comfort is that there are two lower floors with racks for bad guys to visit before they come up to the floor where I park.MB1 said:Get an old wheel and try it. What I would worry about with my bike "4 floors up in in a public parking garage with pretty low public usage" is professional thieves pulling up in a van with power tools and taking the whole rack of bikes. It happens.
I don't know that's really a trade up. The Onguard lock mechanism is notorious for being a bit finicky at times and I honestly think the Evo Mini is the best lock for the money. I'd love to throw down the cash for a Fahgettaboudit (they're coming out with the mini version soon or it might already be out) but really... that seems like over kill. As long as there isn't any room to try and use a jack/rod to seperate it I think most commuter bikes are safe enough.PdxMark said:The OP article did get me researching locks a bit and I think I'll be replacing my Krypto Evolution mini with an Onguard Bulldog mini.