The Best Bike Lock for 2019

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So from our experiences working in shops over the years and interviewing thieves themselves, we created a list of the most common tools that bicycle thieves use to defeat bike locks.
Different locks require assorted tools and pose varying degrees of difficulty to pick; however, once a thief has the tools and the proficiency to quickly open a particular lock, it merely becomes a matter of walking the streets and looking through racks of bikes for a target lock they recognize as being easy to open.
Bolt cutters: From my experience working in shops over the years, I’ve heard hundreds of stories of stolen bikes and seen many cut locks, and most of them (not including snipped cable locks) have been cut with bolt cutters.
Cordless drill: This is a rarer tool for bike thieves, as it works well on only a few types of locks, and most of those are also easier to defeat using other methods, but occasionally drills do see use (most often during an attempt to drill out a lock’s core).
The locks that drills do work well on (such as folding locks) have become more popular, though, and the reduction in noise and size over an angle grinder makes a drill a tempting tool for a thief to carry.
The first test would be to see if any of the locks could be picked (some could); to see if any fell victim to bolt cutters (some did), hacksawing (sadly), or drilling (no problem); and finally to see how long each would take to cut through with an inexpensive portable angle grinder (quicker than you might think).
Some of the locks we tested claimed to be resistant, but most of them fell to our bolt cutters eventually.
The easiest U-locks to cut through appeared to be only case hardened, which seems to do little to stop bolt cutters, since the tool’s jaws can crush and split the softer metal underneath the hardened shell

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