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★★★★★
You Wouldn’t Believe What This Man Has To Say About This Bike Lock!
This Bike U Lock with Cable (BULwC) is incredible. It’s cheap, but incredibly strong and very reliable. Comes with 3 keys, which is a really cool little bonus feature Via Velo added that they didn’t need to, especially for the price.
One rainy evening, my carbon gravel-bike was locked up with one of these BULwCs in our parking garage when a thief broke in with a pair of Heavy Duty Bolt Cutters (HDBC) with my bike in his line of sight. Turns out this BULwC wasn’t having it.
Said thief then decides he will mourn his failure and leave the parking garage, in a fit of rage with HDBC strapped to his Jansport. 8 hours later, at 4am, it was seen on camera that said thief came back. But this time with the big gun. He walks up to my bike and decides to hit the lock with a quick 1-2 with the Heavy Duty Dewalt Power Grinder (HDDPG) and saws right into this BULwC. 30seconds into it, after being blasted by a steady stream of sparks and metal chunks... he cuts through the BULwC. Thief then goes to grab his new toy from the rack but!.. he realizes the bike isn’t coming off. It won’t budge. He then has to make a second cut into the BULwC with the HDDPG. Incredible. This time the BULwC falls off and he is able to reap the reward of all that hard work. He stashes the HDDPG in his Jansport and rides into the night never to be seen again.
This item is incredible. You can buy 13 of these BULwCs for the price you would pay for this quality anywhere else. Do yourself a favor and buy this, and let your bike know/feel it is safe (physically, probably not emotionally) whenever you decide to ghost it... unless your thief is strapped with a HDDPG.
Would definitely recommend this product to family and friends.
October 2019 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase