Hey all. Have no idea where to put this in the forum. I've asked other "gadget" questions in the "electronics and gadgets" section and seems to me that if it isn't an electronic gadget, then it gets ignored, so here goes....

I'll be preparing the taxes real soon and thus getting my small refund and finally getting a new bike. I carry my bike on a trunk mount bike rack to work and ride after work. I didn't care about a Walmart bike sitting out there unlocked on my bike rack, but I will care about a new "good" bike.

I was thinking just a cable to wrap around the frame and wheels. I have a large towing eyelet mounted under the bumper of my Jetta and figured I would be able to attach the cable and lock to this eyelet. I don't live in the big city and figure this will be secure enough for my area just sitting out in the work parking lot. It is a small manufacturing facility with people outside in the parking lot all the time anyways, so I doubt anyone would mess with it. We have had a handful of overnight break-ins of cars over the 18 years I've been there, but that is overnight and I work all steady 5-day daylight.

I am wondering how long of a cable you think would be sufficient for this? I guess I did just think of the fact that I could find some rope and try it out with my current junk bike, but I'll be honest, my laziness is keeping me from going out trudging through 3 feet of snow to the back of my car in the single digit temps. (Yes, you read that right, 3 feet of snow, the wind whips around the house and deposits all the snow around our cars. 12 inches of snow today while the driveway received 3 feet. Around the pool, it is above the 52 inch deck rails, LOL.)

Can anyone give me some better idea on how to lock my bike to my car while I'm at work? Just locking it to the bike rack won't work, it's a trunk mount on nylon straps. The straps could be cut in seconds and bike with the rack tossed in the back of a truck pretty easily. That's why I am thinking of the convenience of having that large tow eyelet mounted to the frame right under the rear bumper.

Planning to put an order into Amazon for some bike stuff to use up a gift card and figured I'd grab a cable to lock it up as well.