Kryptonite New York Chain

The first year I had my bike, my company was based at 41 Madison Ave (Madison and 26th). There was an outdoor parking lot for motorcycles called a "Muni-Meter". For a while, I was using a bike cover, but it got too annoying, so I just left it out in the open on the corner of 23rd and Madison with a Kryptonite lock on the front disk and a New York Chain (Kryptonite lock and a heavy duty chain). I had to work a 36 hour day once, so the bike was left parked outside overnight. In the morning, I came out to find that the red plastic cover to the lock was burnt off as was a portion of the chains nylon cover. Manhattan Express busses use that same corner as they're parking spot and one of the bus drivers informed me that during the night, two guys jumped out the back of a cargo van and attempted to burn my lock off with a blow-torch. Driver said they tried for 3 - 5 minutes then gave up and left. Cops arrived a minute later (Bus drivers called in the theft). I've never had anyone try to freeze my locks, but I'm a Kryptonite man for life now.

Bill '97 VFR '98 F6 '00 929

 

The only venerability that some Kryptonite locks had was if they had a circular/barrel key. If they did, a person with a 10 cent "Bic Type" pen (or other similar cylindrical object) could open the lock by sliding the plastic cylinder snuggly over the key lock mechanism and then it was turn, and presto unlocked. This was never an issue for New York chain & locks, as they had a different form of lock key, however, they have since recalled/remedied the issue. I would buy a New York Krypotonite lock and chain anyday. It is not that this lock (or any lock) is totally impossible to break, only that it 10 times better & harder to break than most other locks. The main objective is to make it harder for them, and slow them down, and hopefully dissuade them from trying in the first place by seeing that it will be hard to do so. It looks a little more obvious if the thief has to carry around an oxy-acetylene step-up with him in order to break your lock.