Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
All you need to do is look at the youtube videos of people defeating any lock you can think of - all with relative ease and all within a minute or so. None of these locks are going to protect your bike from a determined and skilled thief. Some are better than others, but in the end, it's going to be if your bike is more inconvenient to steal than the one next to it. A good protection is to lock your bike next to somebody who doesn't know how to do it correctly and use a good lock.
Net of all of that is that I don't think it really matters and these locks will supply equal or better security to the standard keyed U lock.
J.
That's exactly what electronic will do. It will make defeating it very easy. On a physical aspect it seems that there is no big difference between the strongman ulock and the skylock but on the former you would need to bring tools (probably a portable grinder which is big, heavy and require noisy work for about 1min and that put the thief at risk of being caught doing so) on the later lock you would just need to get near the lock with the hacking device in your pocket. What do you think is the easiest to do?