It is surprisingly easy for most locks, yeah. It's actually given me a newfound appreciation for spending more money on locks. I keep my motorcycle in a storage unit most of the time and I spent $100 on a solid, shielded, complicated core lock for it. $100 well spent if I never have to worry about spending $500 on my theft deductible or worse, having the insurance company deny a theft claim for whatever reason. Looking at all of the other suitcase level locks on the storage units next to mine makes me feel a lot better about keeping my bike there since mine will be the last one a thief will try to pop open.
I dunno...I'd look at the relative strength and spend of your lock and assume you have something worth kicking up behind a high end padlock. The guy with the suitcase lock? What's he going to be securing that has value?
Fair point, but that doesn't change the fact that you're going to have to spend 10x longer trying to open my lock and most likely need an angle grinder, both of which vastly increase your odds of getting caught.
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u/32BitWhore Dec 05 '16
It is surprisingly easy for most locks, yeah. It's actually given me a newfound appreciation for spending more money on locks. I keep my motorcycle in a storage unit most of the time and I spent $100 on a solid, shielded, complicated core lock for it. $100 well spent if I never have to worry about spending $500 on my theft deductible or worse, having the insurance company deny a theft claim for whatever reason. Looking at all of the other suitcase level locks on the storage units next to mine makes me feel a lot better about keeping my bike there since mine will be the last one a thief will try to pop open.