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Robert Carnegie
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I'm looking for a seriously strong lock - because I'm planning to leave my bicycle out of doors full
time. I accept I am possibly crazy. But I don't have space indoors.
We're talking about a new Electra cruiser, cost GBP270 earlier this month. Risk will be mitigated by
leaving it under cover in a polythene greenhouse, attached to a Sheffield hoop / Sheffield stand or
something equally rigid (I'm shopping for that too at the moment), with suitable alarm and under the
gaze of PIR security light. But I reckon I still need a seriously tough lock, and my insurer will
probably agree.
I've looked at www.soldsecure.com , and at the results that were kindly posted online out of Cycling
Plus (don't know if Cycling Plus looks kindly on it). But I'm still confused. I've tried to
understand the different types of actual key/lock mechanism, but I'm pretty sure I don't get it. And
specifically, at the weekend I ogled Kryptolock Evolution 3000 sale price GBP50 -
I /think/ that's one of the good ones, or supposed to be - and a Magnum Dynamite LS, price GBP12,
which appears to have a similar modern unpickable mechanism. I haven't seen Squire bike locks
anywhere, although the store with the Magnum also had some Squire padlocks.
(This is Glasgow, in Scotland, by the way.)
Now, Cycling Plus is reported to have rated the Dynamite LS as a turkey - broken inside a minute.
But that was a couple of years ago. www.magnumlock.com offers a catalogues that boasts at length
about their "new MCylinder(TM)" lock. So is it possible that Magnum got better? Allowing Dynamite is
not the toughest model in that catalogue...
I want something to carry around too - of course - so what? Weight isn't an issue (for the lock;
/my/ weight...we don't want to get into that).
time. I accept I am possibly crazy. But I don't have space indoors.
We're talking about a new Electra cruiser, cost GBP270 earlier this month. Risk will be mitigated by
leaving it under cover in a polythene greenhouse, attached to a Sheffield hoop / Sheffield stand or
something equally rigid (I'm shopping for that too at the moment), with suitable alarm and under the
gaze of PIR security light. But I reckon I still need a seriously tough lock, and my insurer will
probably agree.
I've looked at www.soldsecure.com , and at the results that were kindly posted online out of Cycling
Plus (don't know if Cycling Plus looks kindly on it). But I'm still confused. I've tried to
understand the different types of actual key/lock mechanism, but I'm pretty sure I don't get it. And
specifically, at the weekend I ogled Kryptolock Evolution 3000 sale price GBP50 -
I /think/ that's one of the good ones, or supposed to be - and a Magnum Dynamite LS, price GBP12,
which appears to have a similar modern unpickable mechanism. I haven't seen Squire bike locks
anywhere, although the store with the Magnum also had some Squire padlocks.
(This is Glasgow, in Scotland, by the way.)
Now, Cycling Plus is reported to have rated the Dynamite LS as a turkey - broken inside a minute.
But that was a couple of years ago. www.magnumlock.com offers a catalogues that boasts at length
about their "new MCylinder(TM)" lock. So is it possible that Magnum got better? Allowing Dynamite is
not the toughest model in that catalogue...
I want something to carry around too - of course - so what? Weight isn't an issue (for the lock;
/my/ weight...we don't want to get into that).