The problem with all these fancy locking methods is that I don't want to spend any more time locking my bike than a thief wants to spend stealing it. In other words, time is money and, at a certain point, it becomes cheaper to just let them steal one every once in a while than to waste a hundred hours per year locking/unlocking.

The only thing that can prevent bike theft is secure parking infrastructure, shared ownership, or a bike small and light enough to carry around with you like this:


Trying to secure a human powered, human transportable vehicle from powered attacks is inherently futile.