Disc Lock?

[D4Delta]

Has anyone had experience of a Kabrus Alarmed Disc Padlock? Am thinking of getting one when I get my bike soon.

[karlo]

I keep one of these under my seat,



http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produc...%20padlock


Not sure how secure it is but makes a noise if the bike is moved, I just hang it on the helmet hook.

[JZS 600]

I had an Oxford Mini T disc lock on my old bike and no one knicked it.

Then again it was an XJ 900,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Panthor]

I got a xena alarmed disc lock which so far been really good.

[J_Dub]

I got a xena alarmed disc lock which so far been really good.

I had one of those, it was OK until the lock failed. What a pain in the arse to get off. Thankfully happened at home and not out and about.
Not too keen on getting any disc lock now!

[phil on a fazer]

i had a disc lock (not an alarm one) for ages until i recently lost it. but everytime i used it i worried in case it got stuck.....the locking mech had always been a bit sticky but nothing seemed to sort it out.

[D4Delta]

Many thanks for the comments & advice which will help me decide what to do when I get the bike.

[DanielT]

I got a xena alarmed disc lock which so far been really good.

I've just ordered one.  Any idea why your lock failed J_Dub? or how you could have prevented it?

[J_Dub]

[quote author=Panthor link=topic=4056.msg33276#msg33276 date=1343849493]
I got a xena alarmed disc lock which so far been really good.

I've just ordered one.  Any idea why your lock failed J_Dub? or how you could have prevented it?
[/quote]

I don't really know why it failed, it had been working fine up 'til then. I went to unlock it and the key(s), although turning round in the lock, just wouldn't unlock it. Tried oiling it and leaving overnight, still nothing. The bike was in our garage so it hadn't been tampered with. In the end I took the disc off and attacked the lock with my 4" angle grinder. Have to say the lock didn't really offer too much resistance to the grinder. The lock was about 4 years old I think.

[DanielT]

I don't really know why it failed, it had been working fine up 'til then. I went to unlock it and the key(s), although turning round in the lock, just wouldn't unlock it. Tried oiling it and leaving overnight, still nothing. The bike was in our garage so it hadn't been tampered with. In the end I took the disc off and attacked the lock with my 4" angle grinder. Have to say the lock didn't really offer too much resistance to the grinder. The lock was about 4 years old I think.

For home I have a ground anchor and an oxford xl, so the disc lock is just for out and about use (I will likely have the chain with me too though)  Got to bank on the 'feevs' not carry a 4" angle grinder round town

[DanielT]

Security update (at 3am!)

Load of people passing the house woke me up.

Looked out but they all had gone but 2 guys and a girl with them were slower. 1 of them decides my driveway is a toilet and disposes of a few beers. Then decides he wants to sit on the bike.

The girl runs off but the other guy wants to play too.

"This'll be funny" i think, and wait for the alarm to go off.  Waiting, waiting... "Why isn't the alarm going off?"

Open the window, "oi!" I say. And they run off.

So off I go downstairs to inspect, avoiding the yellow lake, and see the disc lock on a wall. I hadn't put it on! (If the insurance company are reading this, yes I HAD put it on, this is a joke)

But no, really, I forgot. So, my best security so far is the ground anchor that was attached, and my dulcet tones!

[manuel32]

Oh shit,,get it together man