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From: [email protected] (Stephane Proulx)
Subject: Re: Cobra Locks
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You may find it useful.
(This is a repost. The original sender is at the bottom.)
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From: [email protected] (i t harvey)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Best way to lock a bike ?
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Date: 15 Jul 92 09:47:10 GMT
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These are the figures from the Performance Bikes lock test, taken without
permission of course. The price is for comparison. All the cable locks
have some sort of armour, the chain locks are padlock and chain. Each
lock was tested for a maximum of ten minutes (600 secs) for each test:
BJ Bottle jack
CD Cutting disc
BC Bolt croppers
GAS Gas flame
The table should really be split into immoblisers (for-a-while) and
lock-to-somethings (for-a-short-while) to make comparisons.
Type Weight BJ CD BC GAS Total Price
(kg) (sec) (sec) (sec) (sec) (sec) (Pounds)
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3-arm Folding .8 53 5 13 18 89 26
Cyclelok bar
Abus Steel-o- Cable 1.4 103 4 20 26 153 54
flex
Oxford Cable 2.0 360 4 32 82 478 38
Revolver
Abus Diskus Chain 2.8 600 7 40 26 675 77
6-arm Folding 1.8 44 10 600 22 676 51
Cyclelok bar
Abus Extra U-lock 1.2 600 10 120 52 782 44
Cobra Cable 6.0(!) 382 10 600 22 1014 150
(6ft)
Abus closed Chain 4.0 600 11 600 33 1244 100
shackle
Kryptonite U-lock 2.5 600 22 600 27 1249 100
K10
Oxford U-lock 2.0 600 7 600 49 1256 38
Magnum
Disclock Disc .7 n/a 44 n/a 38 1282 43
lock
Abus 58HB U-lock 2.5 600 26 600 64 1290 100
Mini Block Disc .65 n/a 51 n/a 84 1335 50
lock
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Pretty depressing reading. I think a good lock and some common sense about
where and when you park your bike is the only answer. I've spent all my
spare time over the last two weeks landscaping (trashing) the garden of
my (and two friends with bikes) new house to accommodate our three bikes in
relative security (never underestimate how much room a bike requires to
manouver in a walled area :( ). Anyway, since the weekend there are only two
bikes :( and no, he didn't use his Abus closed shackle lock, it was too much
hassle to take with him when visiting his parents. A minimum wait of 8
weeks (if they don't decide to investigate) for the insurance company
to make an offer and for the real haggling to begin.
Abus are a German company and it would seem not well represented in the US
but very common in the UK. The UK distributor, given in the above article
is:
Michael Brandon Ltd,
15/17 Oliver Crescent,
Hawick,
Roxburgh TD9 9BJ.
Tel. 0450 73333
The UK distributors for the other locks can also given if required.
Don't lose it
Ian
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Ian Harvey, University College Swansea Too old to rock'n'roll
[email protected] Too young to die
'79 GS750E