You might want to add a cable lock. That's two locks instead of one without adding much weight or nuisance to lock up. (The cable laced through the wheels and locked with the U still means only one lock.)
I've left heavier-duty U locks at the train station so that I'd have two U locks. One that I carry; one that's at the train station. Another thing to consider is parking/locking at different places. If a nice bike regularly appears at a certain space, it could become an easy target. (Thieves would bring the proper lock cutting equipment at the scheduled time.) shoji On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:07:04 PM UTC-4, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro wrote: > > Granted, an angle grinder is going to win. But. I don't park on NY, > Chicago, or LA city streets. I do park at a public rack on the New Haven > campus where I teach a course. I have an Abus mini-U lock that I use > frame-to-rack, backed with a heavy cable laced through both wheels and > secured with the same lock. Can I reasonably do more than that? > > On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:00:15 PM UTC-4, Jim M. wrote: >> >> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:46:54 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro >> wrote: >>> >>> Which raises an interesting question, since many of us use >>> U-locks-and-cable approaches. Are there ways of locking up with a U-lock >>> (preferrably a smallish one) that defeat most methods of defeating the >>> things? >>> >>> Simple answer: No. >> >> An angle grinder will cut through any u-lock pretty quickly. You can see >> videos on youtube of how fast it is. I've seen a titanium lock -- Tigr IIRC >> -- that will delay an angle grinder longer, but still isn't uncuttable. It >> sounds like the recovered Sam had it's lock picked or else not latched >> completely. >> >> >> jim m >> wc ca >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
