How easy is it to steal a chained up bike?

[YellowDog]

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[george formby]

And the moral of the story is...

My home area had the highest rate of vehicle theft in Europe at one time, a car was stolen every 91 seconds, bikes were not far behind..

I always use a hex link chain, hardened rotating shackles & have it around the bike, not on the ground. Mind you, if they want it they will get regardless, even if it means rudely awaking you with a pistol to ask for the keys as happened to a high ranking police officer in Northumberland.

Nice to see the crims sweating though.

[miloking]

Lol, i like how they have to swap the guy midway thru...for even more fat and unfit bloke

[YellowDog]

Lol, i like how they have to swap the guy midway thru...for even more fat and unfit bloke

Those cutters are one hell of a tool to inconspicuously carry around.

Also, you need to be pretty fit and well verse with the right technique.

I doubt I would have managed to get through any of them

[rustyrobot]

Those cutters are one hell of a tool to inconspicuously carry around.

But would fit easily in the back of a van, along with ramps and...

Also, you need to be pretty fit and well verse with the right technique.

I doubt I would have managed to get through any of them

"Would" being the operative word. Now however... all skilled up

[unstuck]

Depends how bad you want the bike.

[BMWST?]

But would fit easily in the back of a van, along with ramps and...



"Would" being the operative word. Now however... all skilled up

if you got a van a gas axe is quieter and much easier and prolly just as quick

[Urano]

haven't seen the video, but very easy.
from a minimum of 10 seconds to a maximum of some minutes.

the most effective, last time i've checked, are the rigid U bars posed within the wheels and always up from the ground.


the best solution anyway is to park in a visible and populated area and keep a theft insurance...

[Shadows]

That's why I use one of those cables encased in rolling rings to slow them down a bit more. Bolt cutters don't cut through cables very well and the rolling rings make using an angle grinder too hard.

Or so I was told. I've never tried to cut one myself.

[pete-blen]

That's why I use one of those cables encased in rolling rings to slow them down a bit more. Bolt cutters don't cut through cables very well and the rolling rings make using an angle grinder too hard.

Or so I was told. I've never tried to cut one myself.

Totaly correct... Use a wire cable / better still a high tensil cable
Bolt cutters don't cut.. they apply pressure till that force
is greater than the steels burst rateing..

Pete

[george formby]

haven't seen the video, but very easy.
from a minimum of 10 seconds to a maximum of some minutes.

the most effective, last time i've checked, are the rigid U bars posed within the wheels and always up from the ground.


the best solution anyway is to park in a visible and populated area and keep a theft insurance...

U- locks are vulnerable to bottle jacks or freezing the lock with a fire extinguisher & hammering a drift in to shatter the lock.

When i left the UK the opportunist crims favourite tool was a portable grinder.

[Flip]

A mate of mine brought one of those expensive chains and I proved to him it only lasted a few seconds to my 9" angle grinder with a slitting disc in it. (I only cut the end link).
You can but a battery angle grinder these days but it would take a short time to cut a chain with a 4" grinder.

[SilentDtH]

I had a kryptonite lock from Red Baron (it was a thick metal wire style) for $99.

The thieves attempted to cut through it, there were screws in it, and some of the wire was cut, but by the time they got halfway through it someone had spotted them and the police nabbed em!

Unfortunately they had attacked the instruments with a screwdriver and tried to hotwire etc, so the bike was in bad shape My baby was ruined. I got it fixed but never felt the same.

Anyway insurance never paid out because the thieves were caught, and 6 years to this day I have never seen any money.