Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Eleven pounds of pure steel. I gotta say, when I pick this bad boy up, I feel pretty manly despite having just moisturized my hands with Bath and BodyWorks Japanese Cherry Blossom lotion. When the zombie apocalypse comes (and it will), this will be my weapon of choice. I envision myself, biking from town to town, looking for human survivors and wielding this to decapitate the undead as I speed by. Or, maybe on the way home one night, I come across a couple of street urchins brandishing a blade. I stop, swing my leg off my bike with a cowboy swagger, confidently dangle this tank of a chain and do my best Steven Seagal impersonation by swiftly and gracefully dispatching justice without all the face bloat and over-gelled ponytail-ness of the aging star. Is this good for locking up a bike? Absolutely. It's not undefeatable. Any thief with an angle grinder and spare time will beat it. The goal is to make it as hard and intimidating as possible. This is intimidating. This is hard. The reports on youtube and other sites show this as taking as much as two and a half minutes to saw through with a grinder. Yep. Even the best ULocks don't last long-- maybe a minute, minute thirty. By comparison, this thing, while heavy and cumbersome, will hold up pretty well, even against the BEST thief tools. Your bike is always there for the taking by a thief who's well equipped. Just make it harder to get yours than the next guy's. I know, that sounds terrible, but it's reality. Your only other option is a GPS tool. However, some of them are too noticeable and savvy thieves will just destroy them. Waste of money. Besides, if you know your bike's been stolen and is being held at some guy's house in an area known for murdering suburban guys who wear lycra bike shorts, what are you going to do? Go get it? Call the cops? Neither will happen. Either you'll be capped by a gangbanger or you'll fill out police reports that go nowhere. I've been there, I know. (The police thing, not the "being capped by a gangbanger." This is not a posthumous review.) Just get the best locks you can (preferrably more than one if you care about the bike), and make them earn your bike. And if you're froggy and savvy yourself, hypothetically, you'll spray a little mace on the lock everyday when you leave it and wipe it off when you come back in hopes that some thief has an itchy eye while trying to snatch your goods. NOT THAT I'M RECOMMENDING THIS.