Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
Pit Locks make a thief have to invest too much time in stealing your bike which (in their eyes) has now diminished value or by damaging the component removing the pit lock. Pretty excellent product. By the time you add these to your bike and lock it up near others easier to steal, yours is far less desirable to a thief and, therefore, much less likely to be stolen.
If the thief were to steal a bike locked and tricked out with pit locks, they’d have to spend an hour or so trying to get them off in order to either fence the parts or sell the bike.
This is not true either, pit locks can be easily overcome by
https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopi...2&start=15pros.
Pitlocks, and Thorn don't like them?
This stuff is all over the internet and on YouTube how to defeat these locks, it's not a big deal to do it.
So a thief will have a choice to make, defeat the lock and take the bike and work on the pitlocks at home, or move on to a bike with less hassle.
Again, the best way to protect your expensive bike at work or at college etc., is simply DO NOT ride that bike to those places that place your bike at risk! Simply buy a cheap used bike for $250 or so and take that instead, and don't ever bother washing it, the dirtier it looks the less likely it would get stolen, then buy a cheap $45 locking system and call it a day.
Knowing how argumentative you're going to get about this, I'm not going to respond to you on your follow ups, my information is for those that are thinking that a pitlock, or pinlock, will save their components, they won't.