Stanley Q&A

Keep several things in mind for properly locking your bike:

1. Decide for a busy street when locking your bike.
2. Always choose immovable objects for locking your bike to them.
3. If you go for a mall or an area where people usually spend a lot of time, try to lock your bike some streets away from this area for not giving thieves a clue.
4. Always lock your frame & tires
5. Lock your bike with two different locks and keep the locks off the ground.
6. When you lock your bike at home, try to keep it inside the house or apartment.

Link for https://youtu.be/CeNV11VP9fI

Ensure that your tires and your frame are securely locked. When securing your bike for longer periods of time, use the quick release function to remove the front tire and lock it together with the frame and the back tire, securing both to a fixed object such as a street light or fence.

Choose busy storage locations with high visibility where thieves are less likely to operate. It is the best to use the “two-lock” method, such as a U-lock & a cable lock to maximize security when locking your bike. The bike lock should not touch the ground, so thieves cannot benefit from creating leverage to break the lock. Link for https://youtu.be/CeNV11VP9fI

Shrouded padlocks can stand cutting attacks the best.

The truth is that nearly every lock can be picked or bypassed. As soon as people are talking about a lock which seems to be non-pickable,picking experts will start to work on it and will find a way to pick or bypass it. The thing you win by having a lock with some picking barriers is time. So even though the lock can be picked after a while, a good picking resistance will ensure that the picking process will costs time. And a lot of time is not what people want to invest if they want to pick or bypass a lock.

A combination bike lock cannot be picked as this bike lock type does not come with pins which are operated by the key for opening the lock. A combination lock can be shimmed. Most of the A brands provide keyed bike locks which have some internal picking barriers.

There is not “the” answer for this question. It always depends a bit on your individual situation. When you park your bike in a very lively area, chain locks, cable locks and D locks can be secure in this surrounding. When you park your bike in a very lonely, while night not illumintaed area, then it is more an invitation for stealing the bike. The challenge in such situation is that the potential thieves have a lot of time and while night the are even barely visible due to the lock of illumination. So the can take time trying to break the best bike locks.
Sometimes people do not lock their bike to something which cannot be moved – e.g. by locking your bike parts but still allowing the option that a thief is lifting the bike and is carrying it away. So finding “the safest bike lock” is a mix out of the usage of two different but good bike lock types (e.g. a D shape with a cable lock), the surrounding where you want to park you bike – decide for safe areas and a good locking method – lock your bike to something which cannot be moved and lock both wheels as well as the frames and if possible the saddle. When you buy a bike lock invest per lock always around 10% of the value of your bike.

There is not “the” answer for this question. It always depends a bit on your individual situation. When you park your bike in a very lively area, chain locks, cable locks and D locks can be secure in this surrounding. When you park your bike in a very lonely, while night not illuminated area, then it is more an invitation for stealing the bike. The challenge in such situation is that the potential thieves have a lot of time and while night the are even barely visible due to the lock of illumination. So the can take time trying to break the best bike locks.
Sometimes people do not lock their bike to something which cannot be moved – e.g. by locking your bike parts but still allowing the option that a thief is lifting the bike and is carrying it away. So finding “the safest bike lock” is a mix out of the usage of two different but good bike lock types (e.g. a D shape with a cable lock), the surrounding where you want to park you bike – decide for safe areas and a good locking method – lock your bike to something which cannot be moved and lock both wheels as well as the frames and if possible the saddle. When you buy a bike lock invest per lock always around 10% of the value of your bike.

There is not “the” answer for this question. It always depends a bit on your individual situation. When you park your bike in a very lively area, chain locks, cable locks and D locks can be secure in this surrounding. When you park your bike in a very lonely, while night not illuminated area, then it is more an invitation for stealing the bike. The challenge in such situation is that the potential thieves have a lot of time and while night the are even barely visible due to the lock of illumination. So the can take time trying to break the best bike locks.
Sometimes people do not lock their bike to something which cannot be moved – e.g. by locking your bike parts but still allowing the option that a thief is lifting the bike and is carrying it away. So finding “the safest bike lock” is a mix out of the usage of two different but good bike lock types (e.g. a D shape with a cable lock), the surrounding where you want to park you bike – decide for safe areas and a good locking method – lock your bike to something which cannot be moved and lock both wheels as well as the frames and if possible the saddle. When you buy a bike lock invest per lock always around 10% of the value of your bike.

Most of the D locks / U locks as well as some chain and folding locks of A brands are very difficult to be cut. Some of the cable locks are as well very difficult to be cut – means you will need a breaking force pressure created by e.g. a bolt cutter which is 5000 pounds and higher (some even can resist up to 14.400 pounds of breaking force pressure). Especially for cable locks it is often said that they are not that secure but as mentioned it depends on the breaking force pressure they can stand. The construction of a cable lock as an impact on this. A 7×19 galvanized wire rope could manage very high breaking force powers.
But in the end there is no lock which cannot be cut at all – it only needs incredible force to do so (e.g. heavy machines) and thieves will not be able to use them in the streets.

There is not “the” answer for this question. It always depends a bit on your individual situation. When you park your bike in a very lively area, chain locks, cable locks and D locks can be secure in this surrounding. When you park your bike in a very lonely, while night not illumintaed area, then it is more an invitation for stealing the bike. The challenge in such situation is that the potential thieves have a lot of time and while night the are even barely visible due to the lock of illumination. So the can take time trying to break the best bike locks.
Sometimes people do not lock their bike to something which cannot be moved – e.g. by locking your bike parts but still allowing the option that a thief is lifting the bike and is carrying it away. So finding “the safest bike lock” is a mix out of the usage of two different but good bike lock types (e.g. a D shape with a cable lock), the surrounding where you want to park you bike – decide for safe areas and a good locking method – lock your bike to something which cannot be moved and lock both wheels as well as the frames and if possible the saddle. When you buy a bike lock invest per lock always around 10% of the value of your bike.

If you lost your keys for your padlock, you will need a locksmith who is able to open your padlock in a professional way or for cheaper padlocks you can try it with a bolt cutter.

If you lost your keys for your padlock, you will need a locksmith who is able to open your padlock in a professional way or for cheaper padlocks you can try it with a bolt cutter.

If you lost your keys for your padlock, you will need a locksmith who is able to open your padlock in a professional way or for cheaper padlocks you can try it with a bolt cutter.

If you lost your keys for your padlock, you will need a locksmith who is able to open your padlock in a professional way or for cheaper padlocks you can try it with a bolt cutter.

There are bike locks in the market which are above 200 Euro in price. Whether this is the “best bike lock money can buy” depends as well on your individual bike situation. If you have to park your bike in lonely, dark areas, the bike could still be stolen as the thief has time to do it if he really wants the bike. It is always better to chose the best bike lock for your situation. When your bike did cost 500 Euro, you should take 10% of this value for your bike lock price. Buy two different bike lock types and follow the instructions how to lock your bike. Link video. When your bike did cost several thousand Euros (probably a racing bike) – your a clearly a bike enthusiast so take your bike with you the whole time until it is locked securely in your basement or flat again. Reason for this is that your bike is probably very light and you do not want to carry around a heavy bike lock.

Padlocks which are shrouded are very difficult to be cut.

The truth is that nearly every lock can be picked or bypassed. As soon as people are talking about a lock which seems to be non-pickable, picking experts will start to work on it and will find a way to pick or bypass it. The thing you win by having a lock with some picking barriers is time. So even though the lock can be picked after a while, a good picking resistance will ensure that the picking process will costs time. And a lot of time is not what people want to invest if they want to pick or bypass a lock.