data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.104677 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: Krypto cables (was Re: Cobra Locks)
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
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In article [email protected] (Charles Sundheim) writes:
|To follow-up, I had a bad experience w/ a Krypto Lock too...
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|Last year I bought a Krypto Cable II (3/8"x3-4' long, something like that)
|that by all standards seemed like a decent piece. Until I used it anyway...
[...]
So, in short, the 3/8" cables seems to be pretty useless, I would guess.
The larger cable seems to be a much better unit.
I've got the larger cable - about 5/8" inch in diameter (actually, I think
its larger), about 4 feet long which coils into a 8 or 9 inch coil, with the
tubular key lock like the U-locks. It has worked fine for me for two years
now, and *seems* (to me, anyway) that it is very secure. It doesn't have the
weaknesses that the U-locks have other than the liquid nitrogen trick
supposedly, is much easier to store in my tankbag than a U-lock, and more
versatile. I got mine from one of the mail-order houses (Motorcycle Accessory
Warehouse, I beleive), for $42.
In combination with an ignition disable, and a couple of other deterrents,
all I *usually* worry about is vandalism.
Randy Davis Email: [email protected]
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