Recommend A disc Lock that fits.

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Vince

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I am after a disc lock that will fit my 3c standard spoked double disc front wheel. Not a U lock, just something to fit through one disc. I just want something easy to fit to stop my bike from being wheeled away. I have been using one of those pinch around the front brake lever gadgets, but it's slowly destroying my grips, so time for another solution. It'd be good to get a guaranteed fit before ordering one.
 
Job done!

I use 2 stumpy padlocks with a shackle Ø just small enough to go through the disc vent holes (if drilled).

x 2? Just to delay the fuckers for another half-minute.
 
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... the advent of superb battery powered industrial disc cutters has rendered most mechanical locks useless. Locks are butter to a hot knife. So yep, it is just a case of stopping them rolling it away. In the UK, bike theft (push and motor) has become more brazen - they just do it in open view of the public and don't care if the cops arrive (which they won't).

Rant over.
 
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Anyone wandering around a country pub after closing who sees any bike sitting there without a lock. There have been a few times when we parked like that, just rolling it down a hill and putting it behind a bush for a joke might happen. I had my 1976 T140v Bonnie stolen. Don't want to repeat that. We mostly do get a locked shed, it's rare we don't. I sleep better if it cannot just get pushed away. Nothing will stop a serious effect; the videos out of England show that. I did some googling as usual, some insane costs for high-end battery-powered angle grinder resistant locks. Like $500 and more expensive. Even if they eventually get cut, but if it takes 5 or more wheels, even those Diamond wheels take time on some.
 
I used a disc lock once, when parking the Lav at Latrobe Uni. I came out, forgot it was there, wheeled the bike back wards, doink! Bent a spoke - never used it again.

As Lee said, there are thieves about who'll steal anything. Like these kunts who strip the copper out of public facilities like train lines and sports fields, get a cuppla hundred bucks for it, and cause 10s or 100s of thousands $$$ in damage. Anything as long as it's free, eh.
 
Hate to point it out, but no proper thief will piss about riding your bike away. It'll go straight into the back of the van. Gone in 5 seconds and deal with the locks and alarm later.
Still, if it stops the amateurs, I guess that's something.
 
That's the point, it's monkey see monkey do. Any drunk idiot can roll a bike away with no lock. That's all I want to avoid. In the dozens of over night Pub stays there was only 1 that I remember with my bike just sitting in an open car park completely unlocked overnight. The worst was I forget the place, I think Tumit but I was not comfortable, that's when I bought that other lock. Nothing has ever happened but there is always a first.
 
I used a small U-shackle for a while, worked fine. Finest Chinesium... (was actually quite good)....
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I fitted a flashing red diode to my VFR, connected via a "normal on" relay that opened it's contacts when I turned the ignition on, a 9v battery powered the diode. When I heard of bikes being stolen and disappearing with fancy locks and tracking devices I figured that if there was a bike nearby without an "alarm", they would steal it first. Still got the VFR. My no.1 SF2 (became the racer) was stolen after 8 days on the road in Norway, after 28 years in Australia without trouble. Was found 8 weeks later (iirc) abandoned at junkie HQ in Oslo.
 
In Germany nobody would steal a Laverda, nobody knows what is it for, so an additionally lock in not necessary.
 
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