ABUS

You may or may not have heard of ABUS locks before. They are to the European bike market what Kryptonite is to North American bike market. One difference though is that all the ABUS locks are made in their own factory in Germany where Kryptonite locks are farmed out to a factory in China. There's probably nothing wrong with farming out your product but I have a greater respect for a company that has made a living producing the products they sell. While ABUS makes the usual compliment or U-locks at various price points and security levels the one lock that stands out is the one pictured above called a Bordo. In the first two pictures you'll see that it is both bigger than the popular Kryptonite mini-U and smaller than it. What's nice about that is it will still fit in your back pocket if you want to travel light but there's enough of a loop to secure more than just your frame once you get where you're going. The rubber holder can either strap on to your frame with the provided straps or you can bolt it on to a water bottle mount through the metal insert that is also included but if you go this route you will displace a bottle cage as it's an "either/or" mount, not a "both" mount. Overall it's a pretty smart design.

Some of you would be correct in remembering a lock made by Specialized called the WedLock that looked a lot like this one. I had one of those too back in the day but it got lost in a move and I'd always wished I could get another. Now I can.