As false economies go, skimping on bike locks ranks pretty highly. A good quality lock is a small cost compared to the price of a bike, and with cycle theft unfortunately on the rise, it’s now all the more important to secure your bikes properly.
Sold Secure is an independent lock testing company and its ratings are the industry standard for the security of bike locks. At the purpose-built laboratories in Rugby, locks are put through their paces against a variety of different attacks including—but not limited to—drilling, sawing, wedging and lock picking.
Depending on how a lock performs in these tests, it is awarded a rating of Bronze, Silver, Gold, and more recently, Diamond. As a broad rule of thumb, Bronze is only deemed as effective against opportunistic theft,…
