thost little pocket-sized krypto locks are practically worthless for anything beyond locking your bike up for 2 minutes while you grab a cup of coffee (keeping the bike in view the whole time, of course).

i know so many fixie kids who adopted those things for the cool factor (little lock in the back pocket of your jeans...) only to have them twisted off their bikes in seconds flat.

i typically don't lock my bike outside and far out of sight for very long, but when i need to, i'll lock it with my krypto 3' chain with two padlocks on it (an american padlock and a kryptonite "molly lock").

the chain goes through both wheels and the frame, and one lock goes into the end of each chain, and i try to get the second lock to connect from one end to the middle of the chain somewhere, just to complicate things.

if i'm extra paranoid, i'll throw a krypto nyc u-lock into the equasion somewhere. typically through the rear rim and downtube, locking onto whatever i'm securing the bike to.

i spend a lot of time locking up and it's a real pain in the ass sometimes, but i've never had a bike stolen in nyc.