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I believe the old adage is the law conservation of bicycle + lock weight: as bicycle grows lighter and more expensive, lock(s) must get correspondingly heavier.
by acyou 3y ago
I believe the old adage is the law conservation of bicycle + lock weight: as bicycle grows lighter and more expensive, lock(s) must get correspondingly heavier.
Weird to see this cited with the year 2017, I think I read this article back in 2010 or earlier. And I believe Sheldon the man himself is now long since passed.
- m463 3y ago> Weird to see this cited with the year 2017, That's what I was thinking, he didn't pass away so recently. Looked it up and he passed away in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechanic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechani...
- wl 3y agoJohn Allen "updated" this in 2017. I use scare quotes because battery powered angle grinders should have been part of the threat model then and Allen doesn't mention them at all. This is important because now those fancy U-Locks are as easily defeated as a cable lock. U-Locks that resist angle grinders are a very recent development, but their usefulness is limited by the fact that the things people lock bikes to are still vulnerable to angle grinders.