[sturmeh]

Correct, but if the lock is trivial to defeat, you can assume people will be carrying screwdrivers / shims and whatever else is necessary to break locks.

If you need to spend 5 minutes carefully setting pins then yeah it's probably going to be safe in public.

[couchand]

Saws don't care about the pins in the lock.

[brudgers]

If the frame is sawn, that kinda defeats the rationale for theft.

[makeitdouble]

To note, there's many levels of bike theft, some will steal for parts.

You'll hear from people getting their seat post or rear wheel stolen for instance. Yes, seriously.

[brudgers]

The bike in the article doesn’t do much to prevent component theft. The frame is the difference maker.

[couchand]

Another commenter suggested sawing the seat post.

[SirZimzim]

I am curious about that too. Will the bike take a standard replacement seatpost?

[Scoundreller]

The joke’s on you: there is no standard seat post size!

[SirZimzim]

Haha, I don't mean that there is a single universal size. I was trying to figure out if it's using a propriety seatpost as that's becoming more common.