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this is patently not true. maybe titanium is gummy enough to give one trouble? but any steel that isn't brittle enough to shatter when you look at it is going t
by convolvatron 4y ago
this is patently not true. maybe titanium is gummy enough to give one trouble? but any steel that isn't brittle enough to shatter when you look at it is going to be trivial to cut with an abrasive disk and a battery powered grinder. if the chain is 1/2" instead of 1/4", it will take an extra minute maybe.
- rootw0rm 4y agoyup. even boron steel cuts pretty quickly
- dclowd9901 4y agoAnd, frankly, who’s going to stop a guy with an angle grinder from stealing a bike that isn’t theirs?
- angelbar 4y agoClearly he is determined to his objetive...
- lkbm 4y agoI won't physically stop the person, but I will say something to them and take a photo of them in the act. I don't have a way of knowing if you're doing this legitimately (I've had to cut a lock due to a lost key), so I'm not going to threaten them or call the cops. I don't think taking a photo will have any actionable follow-up—I have no way of following up to see if someone reports to see anyone has reported a stolen bike in the area—but might make a thief decide to go find a different target, while not being a major issue if you're the actual owner. As a healthy, medium-large guy who's okay at de-escalation, I live in the assumption that no one will try to hurt me for interfering. I'll probably learn better one day.
- unwind 4y agoI understand the power of angle grinders (so much that I'm still hesitant to buy one), but I object to a battery-powered angle grinder _not_ being "more tools". It has to be at least one level above what the Average Bike Thief carries around, hasn't it? They are certainly not stealthy. Of course, it's quite possible that the Average Bike Thief in Amsterdam is a well-organized criminal-for-hire kind of person, doing surgical strikes against the most valuable bikes and so on (as is often the case with car theft, afaik). Then perhaps an angle grinder is just standard Day 1 equipment.
- u02sgb 4y agoThere are now d-locks that are angle grinder resistant. The reviews I've read suggest they need two cuts to open and each cut uses a full angle grinder disc. As ever, impossible to stop a determined thief, but starting to get "good enough".