Originally Posted by
tomtomtom123
The folding locks are easily broken with a nut splitter under a minute.
I will continue to risk my Brompton with Abus 6500 then. Given that in the field you have no luxury of a vise, it seems good enough. Maybe I should make sure it never rests too close to any pavement, to allow the tools to be operated against it.
Originally Posted by
tomtomtom123
Why don't you simply fold the bike and carry it onto the bus with you to work? Where I live, folding bikes are allowed on all modes of transportation for free as long as there is enough space inside.
That's completely absurd to carry a bike to London and back, go on different modes of transportation, just to provide the security for the bike. The bike would become completely pointless then, a hassle, not convenience.
Originally Posted by
tomtomtom123
Most guides will tell you to take 2 U locks, one for the front wheel to the downtube, and the other for the rear wheel to the seat tube and the bike stand (for normal sized bikes). But for folding bikes there is no way to secure the front wheel to the frame or the rear wheel to the seat tube with a U lock because of the geometry of the bike. So you'll need multiple locks if you also want to secure the wheels.
There are no locks providing absolute protection. The goal is to strike a balance between bike value, theft frequency in the surrounding and inconvenience in locking, hopefully getting to a point where chances of the theft are such that one live with it and absorb the loss if the bike or some part of it gets stolen.