Originally Posted by
jackklas
Locks purpose: to secure and protect.
The better a lock can do this the better a lock is, it doesn’t matter what a person thinks about a lock, it matters how precisely a lock can achieve its objective- to secure an object from people that wish to take it by force.
By that definition and along the lines of the Mighty Purple Crayon, I hereby submit the perfect lock design: a wooden box with your bike inside, filled with concrete, maybe sunk in the sea for a good measure. Far more secure than anything Kryptonite (or Abus or any other lock company for that matter) has to offer.
In order to come up with the "best" lock, you'd first have to have a commonly agreed set of criteria for the various candidates to meet. Not everyone's criteria will be the same, no matter how much you would like it to be.
--J