If you go for a lock go for an ABUS. I have said it before and I will continue saying it ABUS makes the best locks on the market. There is plenty of gimmicky crap out there but ABUS has been around for a long time making high quality locks in their factories. They are owned by the Bremicker family since 1924 and have come up with a lot of the famous locks others have copied. They are not a subsidiary of anyone and they don't make their locks in different factories they don't own or build low quality locks to just hit price points (they do make cheaper locks but they still have some higher quality features). They don't need to make a super thick lock with heavy metal and silly names nor do they need to have sprays in them, you just need to make a quality lock with virgin steel and a lot of testing to exceed all the tests and have new ones to make sure it is good.


A lot of locks are rated by various testing agencies and a lot of those locks are built to pass those tests. They aren't built to be strong and secure they are built to pass tests so they seem more secure. On a purely anecdotal note we tested a Shlage/Kryptonite 12mm chain and Fuggettaboutit the thing broke it with two strikes from a sledgehammer and then we test it against a 8mm ABUS chain and I think 4 people hit it with that same sledgehammer for 10-20 minutes or so and gave up because nothing happened.


If it were me for my bikes I would probably go Granit Xplus and have. Though the Plus version stuff does make a bit more sense if you have multiple locks or e-bikes as you can key them alike with more things than you can with Xplus.


I don't go for the just buy a cheap bike and don't care about it situation or just keep honest people blah blah blah, I want a good quality bike and a good quality lock set up. With all of that and good locking practices I am less likely to have a bike stolen. There is nothing fool proof but good locks from well known well trusted companies will help greatly.