Originally Posted by staehpj1

OH, sorry to misinterpret that. I wasn't sure what you were saying there.

BTW, I am not knocking your choice of locks, for you. I just do not rely much on the integrity of a lock and therefore pretty much any lock is adequate for me. Could my bike go AWOL on tour? Sure. Is it likely, probably not. Would it end my tour, maybe, but probably not unless it was a short tour or I was near the end anyway. One advantage of being used to touring without much stuff is that, if it all was stolen, you can get going again pretty quickly with walmart crap for a few hundred dollars. I have met a few riders on long tours who bought most of their stuff in a quick stop at walmart at the start of their tour. Their reason was that they flew in from S.E Asia and didn't want to bring much, but it demonstrated that it was possible. BTW they seemed to be having as much fun as folks with $10,000 rigs.

BTW, I might feel differently if I toured on an expensive bike or had a lot of high dollar gear. Since my heavy touring bike was $599 delivered and my UL touring bike can be found for a maybe $200 used (~1990 Cannondale road bike) and my gear is mostly pretty minimal and inexpensive I don't worry as much.