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One of the lads from our place has just had his bike nicked from outside the office. Chained to the railings outside the front door with a quite meaty cable lock.
A couple of the guys were outside having a fag, they said two scrotes walked past them, as they got past (no more than 20ft) one pulls a set of bolt croppers out, savages said lock like he's had some considerable practice, And they're off. Never to be seen again no doubt
The guys chased hem down the road but they're well gone
The lock kept the bolt croppers at bay for 1-2 seconds
Be careful out there
any cable lock is shite, sorry 🙁 they're easily defeated by these bad boys
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easy to carry for the little scrotes and slice through them like butter. Sorry for your lads loss 🙁
Glad your chaps even sussed something was going on. I've seen some pretty brazen tinkering with locks in busy shopping streets on a Saturday afternoon!
What sort of lock/chain/cable does work?! We have bolt croppers at home that will happily go through any chain I've ever seen. IMO if they want the bike then they're going to get it, using a lock just keep the opportunists away.
Good on them for trying but office smokers were never going to chase the scrotes down.
I work on the theory of two locks, one cable and one u-lock. They require different tools to break, and you are hopefully less likely to the victim of an opportunist.
gutted!
[i]What sort of lock/chain/cable does work?! [/i]
Almax or Pragmasis - Ive got a Pragmasis, but to be fair neither are exactly something you could carry about, more for use at home with an anchor
You need to use a good D-lock, bolt cutters won't get throught those - try Kryptonite or Abus.
I wont even lock my bike in anywhere. Im either on it, its in the garage or in the car. Shame really but thats the way of the world, full of thieving gypos.
In the garage i have a ground anchor that is epoxy grouted into the concrete floor. The bike is locked to the motor bike and to another bike, all at the back of the garage which is locked. Paranoid perhaps!
[i]You need to use a good D-lock, bolt cutters won't get throught those - try Kryptonite or Abus. [/i]
They don't like bottlejacks though.
I'm afraid i agree with "if they want it, they'll have it philosophy. The last one stolen from outside had 2 D locks on it. The angle grinder the two scrotes had made short work of both. Again - middle of the day in the city centre
My bike comes into the office with me. But they even got round that by kicking my office door in and having that off too.
The scotes appear to be winning 🙁
They don't like bottlejacks though.
Fill your shackle with a frame, wheel and the bike stand and you'll not get a jack in there.
Decent quality chain wins over a d-lock IMO. Definitely just a deterrant though, if they want it they'll have it.
We had a bike brought into the bike shop where they'd failed to break the lock, so they'd just hacksawed through the top and down tubes. They didn't have it, and didn't want the owner to enjoy it either. Tossers.
A couple of weeks ago I prevented a group of scrotes from nicking a bike in Spring Gardens Manchester. I was waiting for someone and they were on the other side of the road looking dodgy. I knew that they were going to try and nick it so I stood there staring at them. They knew that I knew.
I quickly dived into a building and asked the security guard to call the police (hoping that there was a chance that there might be a copper near by).
In the 30 seconds it took me to get back outside, to keep watch, they had wipped a 2 foot long set of boltcroppers out and were about to snip the lock. The security guard also came outside and we shouted at them and they scarpered.
They had some seriously heavy duty croppers and would have cut through the lock in seconds. We put a note on the bike to warn the owner of future problems. Hopefully he/she still has their bike.
I had a spesh Hard Rock nicked many moons ago. Locked up out of sight (under my office window) in a sleepy market town so I felt quite safe. It was nicked. The strange thing was they had also nicked a £99 special five minutes before (or so the police told me) and they decided to swap the wheels over. They took the £99 bike and my wheels to the bike shop down the road and made a fuss because the gears didn't work (one had 8 gears, the other 6!!!!!). The buggers must have got my wheels to fit the cheapo bike because they didn't ask about that. Anyway, the bike shop sussed something was up and asked them to come back in a few days while they ordered a part. They were on the phone to the police when I walked in to alert them to the loss of my bike etc etc. They gave me my wheels back in the end but the scrotes did not show up again so they basically got away with it. Hate them...every one, they need stringing up.
I've said this before but you can drive round Manchester and spot scumbags on rare bikes easily, seems to me the cops are oblivious!
When I used to commute into town on a trail motorbike I soon found out that the type of lock that scrotes struggle with is decent D-locks. On a couple of occasions they managed to defeat the other locks I was using, but the D-lock always stopped them.
I've said this before but you can drive round Manchester and spot scumbags on rare bikes easily, seems to me the cops are oblivious!
Don't just blame the cops. 99% of people have no idea about bikes at all and would never spot it in a month of Sundays 🙂