^^ TheGnome. It's obvious you're very wealthy, so for you to buy a $5,000 bike is probably like pocket change to most of us here. So for you it makes sense to go and buy a $5,000 bike every time it gets stolen.

But your perception of a lower costing bike falling apart is pure nonsense, there are people on this forum that ride low end LBS bikes to work and have no issues, for years I rode a bike (a 84 Trek 660 with Suntour Superbe components) to work that accumulated over 160,000 miles in that time frame and it never broke. And risk your life? Your risking your life more riding that carbon fiber dream bike!! Get real, and stop insulting riders on this forum that ride to work on less then $500 bicycles. Maybe a $100 Walmart bike isn't idea, but their $275 Schwinn Prelude would more then hold up.

And lock picking contests began in Europe and Holland with what was known as LockCon and LockSport and other names, but the contests first came out of Europe in 1997 which I got confused with the American version DefCon. But DefCon didn't add lock picking to other assorted hacking until early 2000 and it was a slow catching on contest.

But regardless you're speaking out of your ass. You don't understand bikes at all, nor tools. 10 minutes for an angle grinder to cut a lock is pure BS and thus the real ass talker is you on those points.

But you did say something that isn't pure BS out of your ass, and that's taking the bike in doors with you. I was always able to take my bike inside and right into my office.