That is kind of what my wife and I have learned (and observed) in Paris. She recently bought a well reviewed bike lock without too much concern about how easy it is to pick because it had a short, thick U that would take time to cut and would not leave enough room between the lock and the bike frame to insert a car-jack-like tool to pry the lock apart. Those are by far the most common ways bikes are stolen here.
Still, this whole Supreme thing has me thinking and I think I might traipse down to Hermès to see if they have a bike lock with a matching Birkin bag to transport it… (Kidding – if I did that, the bag alone would cost at least 10X what the bike itself did.)
