Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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Bumping is very effective with regular pin locks. Use Abloy!
If a Key has had to be made to 'pick' the lock, then it's hardly 'picking' I think. These locks look pretty secure to me, I'd consider one.
It's the wrong metric. The right one is how long it takes to cut through it with a hacksaw or how big a set of bolt cutter you would need.
It's not a "key" it's a "bump key". Most locks are pickable with the bump method, It's how a locksmith gets your door open when you're locked out. That one bump key he made will open any one of these locks, over and over again.
If the maker of these locks makes "unpickable" claims without realising that's it's actually very easy to pick, I'd be worried about any other oversights they may have made. That U bar is probably made of cheddar.
Of course none of this is relevant because in the history of bike theft, not one lock has ever been picked.
An analogy from the world of IT security - http://xkcd.com/538/
Thieves don't pick locks.