ernielynch
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Edit: I would expect a thief who breaks into a garage and is tooled up to overcome a lower quality lock to also be able to deal with a higher quality lock.
Not actually the case- basically, the generallevel of bike security is so low that a lot of thieves won’t bother with heavier duty tools, they’ll just move on and find an easier to nick bike. The majority of bike thieves when caught have only relatively basic tools, even now. (there’s probably a self selection thing there, good thieves with good kit are probably less likely to get caught, but it still proves the point).
That’d change, no doubt, if most people had good locks but so many people don’t lock their bikes at all, and so many that do use crap locks (either because they settled for crap, or because they were sold crap but thought it was good because it was expensive and had all the bullshit certificates like sold secure gold etc).