Originally Posted by
HardyWeinberg
One of my daughter's friends had her totally crappy magna bmx bike stolen off the elementary school rack this summer (their daycamp was at the school), even cutting the cable lock to get it. I can't imagine the bike was worth as much as whatever boltcutters were used on the cable. People gonna do what they do I guess.
Wow, I hate to hear that. And a Magna? I could understand that more if it had been a quality BMX bike. I was amazed at what some of those cost when I started looking for bikes for our kids. I guess I could get them mini U-locks to carry in their backpacks, and probably should, but I don't think it's necessary (yet).
Here are the locks our kids use. They come in purple, too, or at least they did a few months ago when I found one to match my daughter's purple bike on the rack at a sporting goods store. My son has a red one to match his bike, and we also have a blue one that I bought a couple years ago for my own bike. That was about the same time I found this forum and saw a YouTube video of someone cutting through a cable lock by just sawing away at it with clippers until they finally got through it...which wasn't long. Before that, I guess I just figured a lock was a lock and any would do.
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Bike Locks
