If you love your bike as much as we love ours, you’ll want to keep it in your hands. The best way to do this is to lock it up. According to Bicycle Victoria, over 5000 bicycles are stolen each year in the garden state. Many of these could have been easily averted with a quality bike lock
So what do the boffins at Commuter Cycles recommend? There are many on the market, and a scoot through the local 2 dollar shops will provide some of the lesser options. The Commuter Cycles Team has found some of these can be broken open with bare hands. Scary.
An ABUS lock is an excellent choice, and we’ve a healthy selection of their range in stock. A German company, ABUS have built their reputation on this kind of security, with car, house and padlocks as their core business.
It’s easy to see how serious they are about building quality locks, It appears they’ve saved little time for designing their website. Like their locks though, it’s not pretty, but it works.
Since opening our workshop doors, we were looking to get these heavy duty devices on our shelves. They start at the entry level ‘Facilo‘ at $70 and range in style and function up to the hard-core ‘Bordo combo‘. The latter folds up neatly against your frame and ‘folds’ out to fit around 3 bikes or a telephone pole. Perfect for when you want to take one lock for two bikes…
Of course these locks aren’t cheap, but for a one off price, we reckon it’s still competes well with conventional insurance (or a tank of petrol…)
ABUS products instore:
Facilo, Tresor, Steel-O-Chain, Bordo Combo
Price:
$70 – $200
