Security
Maximum resistance, or the right lock for a low-risk parking spot?
One of these is graded by an outside body. The other tells you, in its own listing, exactly where it belongs.
| Compared on | KB-BS-006 | Element 303 |
|---|---|---|
| Certification cited | Sold Secure at its highest grade — an independent insurer certifier | ABUS security level 4 — the maker’s own scale |
| Shackle or pin | 16 mm manganese special steel | 5 mm specially hardened steel |
| Maker’s stated risk level | Not published | Stated — scooters and mopeds at LOW theft risk |
| Reminder cable | 180 cm loop cable supplied | Not published |
| Alarm | None | None |
| Cylinder | Multi-disc, stated less convenient and more picking-resistant | Automatic push-button locking |
A tick means one listing published something the other did not, or published a better figure. It does not mean the product is better, and the column is not a score out of anything: a maker who says less loses lines here without losing a comparison. The two verdicts below are where the page is settled.
The lock for a machine worth more than the lock. An independent certification at its top grade, with a shackle more than three times the diameter of its rival here.
The lock its own maker says it is: for a scooter where theft risk is low. That sentence is worth more than any adjective on this shelf, and buying it for a valuable machine ignores it.
No — it ranks a maker's own range against itself consistently, which is genuinely useful. It is simply a different kind of claim from an assessment by an outside certifier, and insurers publish requirements against the latter.
It stops the machine being ridden. It does nothing about it being lifted into a van, which is the method used on anything worth stealing. A chain to a fixed object is what changes that.
Sold Secure Diamond · 16 mm manganese steel shackle · multi-disc cylinder · 180 cm cable
A disc lock certified Sold Secure Diamond with a 16 mm manganese special steel shackle and a multi-disc cylinder, supplied with a 180 cm loop cable.
Best for: A machine worth more than the lock, parked where it is left unattended and insured.
≈ £49 / €48
5 mm pin · hardened steel · ABUS security level 4 · the maker states it is for low theft risk
A compact disc lock with a 5 mm hardened steel pin at ABUS security level 4, which the maker states is intended for scooters at low theft risk.
Best for: A scooter parked where the maker says this lock belongs: somewhere theft risk is low.
≈ £12 / €13
Nothing written into the text below is a current price. Where an amount appears in a sentence, it is the reading taken on the day that sentence was written; what a shop is asking at this moment loads beside the product itself, and that is the figure to go by.
