Thanks for all the info crawdaddio, I thought I would ask my question here as well.

I recently had someone try to steal my bike, which I had locked up with:

Low level bike guard lock http://www.bikeguardlocks.com/ulocks/rocklock_1300.php

And a Canadian tire cable lock similar to this, only with a lock built into the cable http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows...ike%2BLock.jsp

The thief defeated the cable lock by cutting the cable, and they did not touch the u-lock.

My question is, is this type of cable lock more or less secure then a loop cable with a padlock?

I live in a very low crime city (St. John's, NL, Canada) so I use a u-lock only when I will not be near my bike for a while, or when it is dark.