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High-tensile steel wire

  • 19-02-2008 5:48pm
    #1
    oobydooby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this has been done before but laptops and monitors etc are usually bolted down in college with a flexible wire that I'm told a bolt cutters wouldn't get through.

    I'm looking for a long cable, long enough to lock two bikes to a car (if I'm stopping off somewhere while carrying them). Thought this might be perfect if it's as strong as I was told.

    Thought it might also be a useful addon for a long tour if I didn't want to bring a U-lock for weight/space reasons. Also handy for keeping all the bits together on a good bike (locked to something else with a good lock).

    Anyone used these cables for their bikes or any similar cables?


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  • #2
    kona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    who ever told you that is full of **** tbh.


    a proper bolt cutters would ahnialate, a steel cable.

    a university isnt going to spend more on a cable than on the computers.

    a unbreakable cable, wouldnt be made of steel, it would be a alloy and it would have to go through serious hardening, which is expensive.

    and if it was high tensile, it wouldnt be flexible either.

    use any krytonite lock with a gold rating, youll not have much change out of e150


  • #3
    Morgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Morgan


    Those cables are ~5mm braided steel. You can get heavier duty ones for bikes e.g.
    http://www.kryptonitelock.com/Products/ProductDetail.aspx?cid=1001&scid=1001&pid=1123

    Like Kona says a bolt-cutter would get through either in seconds. It would stop an opportunist just wheeling your bike away though, nothing more.


  • #4
    oobydooby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭oobydooby


    Fair enough - I did have my doubts, honestly:o I thought it might be a cheapskate version of the kryptonite.

    What do people recommend for carrying bikes on a car. Just lock 'em together as normal and sit near the window of the cafe if you stop? I worry a bit about an opportunist with a pick up or van just lashing the two bikes into the van and working on them elsewhere.


  • #5
    kona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    oobydooby wrote: »
    Fair enough - I did have my doubts, honestly:o I thought it might be a cheapskate version of the kryptonite.

    What do people recommend for carrying bikes on a car. Just lock 'em together as normal and sit near the window of the cafe if you stop? I worry a bit about an opportunist with a pick up or van just lashing the two bikes into the van and working on them elsewhere.


    i wouldnt leave em fullstop.
    whats the point in spending e100 on a lock, when it will take either a blade or less to detatch the whole carrier from the car. a lock is only as good as its weakest link;)
    one fella on the mtb site had a bike robbed off his car, in his garden:eek:

    scummers are everywhere, car-bike racks, are for a-b there aint no c!!!


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