Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Dat's weird. I used a cable lock for 10 years in German Cities (Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Mannheim and Zweibrucken) and never had any problem.
Beefy chains predominate in Amsterdam, but yeah, I never saw anything in Brussels, Antwerp or Bruges (or anywhere else in the Lowlands) other than the slenderest of cable locks. Difficult to believe people are putting up with rampant bike theft and not changing their strategies ...