BrainSeepsOut I found a better way to deter bike a thief, bring along a friend with a video camera, and after you've caught one, film cutting his balls off and then stick the video online!
Ha! For a while I thought the lock was going to win! I've had a kryptonite mini-7 for a couple of years now...one of the advantages of buying the smallest u-lock you can get away with is that it leaves less room to get a pry bar between the lock and the bike. Without destroying the bike, of course. But if the thief just wants to destroy the bike, no need to mess with the lock! ;-)
one thing is breaking a lock that is only attached to one bar, when you have room to manouver, don't have anything to damage, and because it's not attached to a bike and you are filming, people are not going to react to you. If you had that same lock going through a thick frame and wheels, and had to pry it open without damaging the bike it would probably work differently for you.
Gstrangeman96 the general bicycle theif doesn't give a shit about the frame. It's all about components. They will toss the frame into the woods, ditch or river. So hence if they only want your fork they will bust your bike up to get it.
Dude, that is actually interesting to know. Thanks for sharing. Makes me think twice about getting a cheap one, and about the way I thread the lock through my frame and the bike rack.
as you see it brokes on the black part the part which hasnt a deadbolt which is in just one side but in the new version of this lock it has a double deadbolt so you cant do this technique anymore
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just a 3ft piece of scaffolding pole would do the trick but would be certain to cause severe damage to or break the frame of the bike as well. Unlikely a thief use this method unless super expensive or rare components are on the bike & in this case would be much more likely to saw or crop bolt heads that attach them in 2 seconds if there are glued ball bearings.
The locks are great but man I thought Kryptonite cables that go on and protect wheels from being stolen would be very strong, but there's a video on here of a guy with a mini bolt cutters slicing through one like butter,I need to get another U-Lock to protect my front wheel.
Action Camera 1 they didn’t put it on an actual bike if they did it would be hard to fit something like that in and if you put it on correctly it’s much harder 2) they used it against many different things. The lock doesn’t auto regenerate and that damage does build up.
Another reason why kryptonite's single locking u locks are garbage. I believe most thiefs use a pry bar instead of bolt cutter since they draw less attention.