ptempel

No, mine appears to be a Yardeni: Yardeni Locks: High Quality Locking Systems, Electronic Locks, Steel Hasps and Cylinders Its the one in the middle of the three locks pictured on the front page. The U part comes out completely when you turn the key. The key also looks like an older Mercedes key (teeth and ridges are on the inside edge of the key). The outside edges on the key are completely flat. I honestly never heard of them before I bought it. But it is a good lock.

Edit: Looking at the catalog they call it "Padlock EITAN" on page 6.

kevindsingleton 

I guess it's all about what you've known. I grew up in Texas, outside Dallas (Go, Cowboys!), but I now live 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, on a little farm. I work in a built-up suburb outside the city, so I have access to most of the perks of living in the city, and none of the hassles. Best of both worlds, if you ask me. Not sure I understand the "$4/gallon gas" part, though. Us country bumpkins go to Staples for staples! City slickers!

ltxi

Leg irons and/or handcuffs.

rydabent

Love it. A drooling rottweiler is probably the best deterrent I have heard of yet.

mrodgers

Grove City or Slippery Rock? That's about 50 miles north of the Burgh. Where you riding? I was in Eau Claire until the divorce got underway. Down in Butler now. If GC or the ole Slimy Pebble, then I'm sure we've passed one time or another out at Moraine.

Hockey fan? How about that game last night! Whoops, forgot about the Dallas thing. Cowboys and Stars.... Pffffttt...

As for the topic, I haven't gotten any kind of lock yet. I've yet to stop anywhere when riding to need to lock it up.

Mark Stone

Bike 1:



Bike 2:

GlennR

Never leave it long enough to worry. But I use this to keep honest people... honest.

goraman

The new Racks are not designed by bike owners.
There so stupid you can't even get half the wheel in.
Can't get a D lock around them and the frame, so I did the Sheldon Brown lock up.

kevindsingleton 

We're more west, towards Ohio, past Chippewa. We ride the Stavich Trail, from New Castle to Ohio, and the Greenway Trail from Lisbon to Leetsdale, in Ohio. That's a really nice MUP. Sometimes we go to Pittsburgh, but mostly we ride around our area, which is all rural backroads. I've wanted to get out to Moraine, but haven't yet made it. There are good MTB trails at Brady's Run Park, in Beaver County, just down the road from me. Might be a good place to work out your Mongoose.

I've never cared about hockey. We didn't have it, when I was growing up in Dallas. We did get five Lombardi trophies, though!

I have a cable and lock, somewhere. I don't usually leave the bikes where I can't see them.

I-Like-To-Bike

Correction: You are the bicycle lock and are chained to the bike.

obed7

I am not a commuter, so I am the bicycle lock as one poster said. When I ride, I carry in a belly band holster.
When I am not riding, my bikes are behind a locked gate, in a locked building with an alarm, with two dogs, a glock .40 and a pump shotgun. If they are good enough, they will still get it.

I-Like-To-Bike

I have ridden bicycles (none of them high cost) for over 60 years, locked with either a cheap chain or cable and cheap padlock and never had any stolen. That includes 6 years (1970-1976) of daily commuting, riding and outside parking throughout Philadelphia, mostly on a Raleigh Sports 3 speed or Schwinn one speed balloon tire bike. I parked at Vet's Stadium all the time for night games as well as parked outside City Hall for 4 years while working there. No Brooks Saddles or any other component stolen in Philadelphia or anywhere else over the last 60 years except in Gouda, NL where a small tool kit bag with cheap tools was stolen while parked overnight near the pension.

I must be lucky, eh? But then I am not blessed with riding bikes that I am afraid to let out of my sight.

Pictured is my typical locking equipment.

veganbikes

Is his name "Monty"?

Thank you thank you, I will be here till thursday!

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For locking I have a On Guard u lock (an older pitbull I believe) and a Blackburn Attica Chain and lock. I don't use them at the same time (at least not yet) and generally I try to bring the bike with me or have someone I trust watch it. When I do lock I always try and get frame and rear wheel (which is the most valuable wheel generally).

If I was locking up outside more and for long periods of time I would probably invest in a Pitlock system as well (replacement locking bolts and skewers for your bike). Yes thieves can get through anything but the better locked and more secure looking your bike is the less likely it is to get stolen.

The only time I would use a cable is maybe something light while touring as a light deterrent. In smaller towns and less crimey areas they might be ok but I wouldn't want to trust my bike to them. I remember one customer I had who I told not to buy a cable deterrent to lock her bike because it would likely be stolen. It got stolen and she came back trying to blame the shop (not directly) and wanted all these discounts because she didn't listen the first time. We told her no because we told her not to do what she did from the start. Luckily my new shop doesn't sell cable deterrents with locking mechanisms so one has to get a u or chain lock so their bike hopefully is less likely to get stolen.

indyfabz

So you are not one of the people my question was directed to. I have read numerous posts, especially in the Touring forum, that opine that if you lock up a bike outside it's only a matter of time before you have it stolen.

BTW...I too had a bike bag with a tube and some cheap tubes stolen. I work at 17th & Arch and the bike was locked up there. Had a brain fart and forget to remove the seat bag. There are a lot of beggars, etc., who hang out outside the Wawa neat to my building. It really gets out of hand sometimes. You walk outside the building and 5 different people ask you for change before you get 30'.

Another big problem are the hipsters with their tiny locks for their fixes. Twice in the last year I have left work to find that one of them has put their lock around one of my cables. The first time I had my wrench set with me and pulled the RD cable from my LHT so I could free it. Needed a tandem cable to replace it. The second time someone locked around one of the brake cables of my Bike Friday. I didn't have my wrench. Marched 6-7 blocks to a LBS to buy some. Fortunately, I rant into two friends of mine outside they shop. One of them had some wrenches. He was nice enough to ride over to where my bike was locked and wait while I did the work. Both times I left nasty grams.

Maelochs

Keep a big set of cutters at work, and leave a note requesting that they be more careful with their replacement lock.

I-Like-To-Bike

I'm sure you are correct but this thread is posted in the commuting forum. High priced, anxiety producing "touring (or racing) bicycles" are hardly necessary for most commuting needs, though they may be just fine for people who don't mind having a figurative ball and chain relationship with their bicycle, and never let it out of sight due to fears of theft of high zoot equipment.

fietsbob

Town has Bike racks And sign posts, I lock it to them..

indyfabz

Uh....Not it's not.

indyfabz

I wish, but they usually use small Kryptonite u locks so they can ride around with them in the back pockets of their skinny jeans. Earlier this week I saw the bike that was locked around my shifter cable. It had slid down the pole it was locked to. Part of it was in the street, just waiting to get run over by a cab or other vehicle pulling close to the curb. I sort of felt bad, but not that bad.

Gresp15C

Cable lock and Anti-Theft Aesthetics (tm).

rekmeyata

Call me silly but I sure wouldn't use $450 in locks to lock up a $200 bike, in fact I wouldn't even use a $200 lock to lock up a $450 bike!! You can get a Onguard 8020 Mastiff which was rated among the highest for just $67; see: Tested: Best Bike Locks | Bicycling Then see: Robot Check

Then see this on how to lock your bike up: How to Lock Your Bike and Prevent Bike Theft | Bicycling

By the way, all I have is very thick cable lock and a Discus lock, but I rarely lock up my bike and when I do it's within my sight.

I-Like-To-Bike

You are right; my mind must have turned to mush on my birthday. I suppose the angst of constantly worrying about the theft of expensive bikes, or in the case of the OP even inexpensive bikes, fits under the banner of general cycling discussion.

Jarrettsin

I carry a simple cable lock nothing to heavy. I call it a 10 minute lock, because I would never leave the bike for more then 10 minutes. just enough that someone can't walk off with the bike on a whim. Just enough time to use a bathroom or go in a store and by a drink/snack.

goraman

I live in Central Roseville Ca. just out of Sacramento. A train town that has gone all yuppie.
We have a huge immigrant population, loads of illegal's and homeless - bums, drug users.
7 miles east was east Roseville, is Granite Bay now with Hollywood and sports celebrity's in homes costing several million dollars.
We have the very rich, the deep in credit want'a be rich and the very poor, and sadly the scum of the earth who would steel a man's Iron Lung right out from him.
You have all walks of life in a 20 mile area.
I try to park my bike next to a$6,000 to $10,000 carbon fiber wonder bike locked with a cable.
I don't need to have an unbeatable theft system in place just better than the more expensive bike next to me.
I am a Clydesdale, I weigh 15 stone, If I didn't ride my bike a few times a week I'd have a big gut.
I don't care pushing a little more weight as for me the whole point is to work off a few pounds, I will be 50 in a couple months and I'm 5.9 now was 5,10 when I was younger. So keeping in shape is the only reason I ride, 275 pounds on 27 inch wheels, me, the bike and the locks. me 210, bike 45,locks 20.
And what ever bags of food I pick up at the store.

navdeepghai

always lock your bike.It take seconds to pedal away on an unlocked bike

Bhagwant Mann
It takes only seconds to pedal away on an unlocked bike. - See more at: How To Lock Up Your Bicycle | MassBike