You can get through most U-Locks with a set of massive bolt cutters too - like butter.
Even when you can’t, I once removed a super-thick U-Lock for a shop customer (locked up bike / lost keys) with a cordless angle grinder, on a busy street, 2x blocks from the local cop shop with sparks flying everywhere. Not one person stopped and asked what I was doing or called the police.
I’m under zero illusion that any lock is doing any more than keeping honest people honest, giving unprepared thieves the motivation to go for softer targets, or potentially giving me the time I need to defend my property.
I’d challenge you to suggest a better option with any degree of portability.
July 31, 2018, 8:09 a.m. - Andrew Major
You can get through most U-Locks with a set of massive bolt cutters too - like butter. Even when you can’t, I once removed a super-thick U-Lock for a shop customer (locked up bike / lost keys) with a cordless angle grinder, on a busy street, 2x blocks from the local cop shop with sparks flying everywhere. Not one person stopped and asked what I was doing or called the police. I’m under zero illusion that any lock is doing any more than keeping honest people honest, giving unprepared thieves the motivation to go for softer targets, or potentially giving me the time I need to defend my property. I’d challenge you to suggest a better option with any degree of portability.