Originally Posted by
KraneXL
... Bike thieves carry all the necessary tools they need and they can disable your theft prevention measures faster than you can unlock your bike with the keys or your combination. Stay safe.
Not much you can do with fabric panniers given that lots of folks carry pocket knives (and pocket multi-tools can easily take thin cabling), but if you have a decent bicycle I figure it's still worthy of using a halfway decent bicycle lock requiring at least larger/heavier/louder tools, like 30" bolt cutters or better. Pocket-sized cable cutters, which can still take half the bikes out there, just seem too easy to carry, conceal and discretely use. Also, just being a bit more time consuming than the equivalent bike next to you can often do the trick.