Lock Recommendations?

[ElHegpah]

Make your bike ugly, and park it next to the prettier ones.

if you want to win a fashion contest, wear good walking shoes.

Expensive locks simply advertise an expensive bike. In any sort of hi-crime area, your best defense is to appear to be a less valuable target.

 

[indianajo]

There are no racks or posts in this 3 county area of only 2000000 population that litelok will wrap around. Thieves that would use a chainsaw to cut down a power pole with 7000 vac wires on the top, I have never encountered one that stupid. 6" sling would wrap the frame and one of those. Does scar the paint, so I've given up that for my pristine PakYak. On large parking lots where concrete wrapped light pole are the only tether within 500" of the store, it takes >8' to wrap one of those. Abus 1/2" security chain in stock at grainger.com comes in 2', 5' and 10' lengths. 10' was $391+freight. Having my garage door cut open to steal the Yuba bodaboda in August, I now have the 10' abus chain to wrap around an auto tire inside the garage. Chain weighs 21 lb, the Abus 82/60 lock is another pound. Both ride in the front rack of the PakYak, inside a roaster pan to not slide out the rack gaps. Roaster pan top keeps chain from rusting in the rain. Bungee cord holds that down.