Polite wrote:Rick, I am thinking of getting one of these and storing it in a saddle bag I have attached to the saddle. Do you think it would be too heavy to store in there? Also, how long have you had yours and how has it performed? Thanks.
No reason to not put it in a saddlebag - I have on a few occasions carried it loose in a bag but it is quite a heavy object and is better if it is restrained. I would recommend either using the supplied case or a stout elastic (piece of MTB innertube?) to hold the links folded. I generally use the case either fixed to a bottle mount or strapped on with the velcro straps supplied with the case. At the moment it is slung under the top tube on the rear of the tandem as I fitted bottle cages on all 3 mounts in the last hot weather.
I've had the lock since March last year. In use it has been fine - AFAIK it has never been tested. It is long enough, if you remove your front wheel, to lock the frame & both wheels to a Sheffield type stand, elsewhere you may need a 2nd lock or cable. For short stops I tend to just lock the front wheel & frame to something. With the tandem I don't always lock it to something at a cafe stop as that is a quite hefty object to carry off, as it has a centre stand it sometimes becomes the impromptu bike rack when out with a group (that works quite well as long as you keep the number of bikes leaning on each side roughly the same) There is a knack to threading it through things as it only bends in one plane but the gap between the ends when located in the lock can be used to good effect, round a bar or frame tube, when space is tight.
Hope that helps.
Rick.