Customer Reviews

Mongoose Cable Combo Bicycle Lock (5-Feet)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

Great product, would buy again. Easy to function hard to pick this lock. I usually can open these kind of locks but this one gives you false positives and the lock does not open unless you have the combination. It is great protection and strong. (UPDATE) I have now had it for about a year. The kids lock their bikes up at school and there bike was not stolen but the bike without a lock was. It is a good lock for the money. If you want solid steel this is not the product for you. It is designed to be light and easy to use. It is a solid Medium security lock.

The lock is great, considering the price. At less than $10.00 (when I bought it), it was a bargain. Of course, it's not the best lock in the world, but you will probably have to pay a much higher relative price for anything better. It's a lock and it works, that's what matters.

In the end locks can be broken, no matter how good it is, someday someone will come around and be able to breat it somehow. I wasn't about to spend any more on locks for this reason. As long as I can reduce the ease of my bike being stolen by a small margin I am fine with it.

This one is only 5' long and that's one of the reasons I like it as that makes it easier to carry when you aren't using it to lock your bike. It's also easy to use to set your combination and reset it if you need to. It's only for show though, I live in Brooklyn, out here people will steal your car while you go to the store for 2 minutes; a bike lock, no matter how expensive, is an easy job for thieves here.

I admit that I purchased this bike lock because it was so cheap. And in this case, you definitely get what you pay for. Before I even used it the first time, I already had an issue during the set up. For some reason, after I set my 4-digit pin, the first digit became disengaged and now just spins freely. What I mean is that no matter what number you have the first digit on, as long as the last three are right, then the lock will open. So I guess I have a 3-digit lock now lol. Other than that however, the construction of the lock seems to be pretty solid. The cable is not very thick but is still very strong. This lock will definitely not stop any thief motivated enough to steal your bike but it is a pretty good theft-deterrent (which is all I need for my bike rides to the gym) plus is small and light so I can just leave it attached to my bike at all times and its not in the way while I'm actually riding it. (Pretty) Good and Cheap!

received item quickly...did not work when I tried to set my own combo. I called the number on the package; the person said that I could not get a refund, but that I could have anouther lock?????? She said that some people can get them to work. Do not order; in fact, I am not buying anything made in china anymore.

It's easy to set the code and it looks hefty enough to protect my bike (since these locks are more a deterrent than actual thief-stoppers anyway), but it had one major issue where the code randomly changed. I had set the code to what I wanted and then the next time I tried to open it it wouldn't open - turns out the code had changed where the first tumbler was one digit lower than what I had set it to. I'm not sure if this was due to faulty manufacturing or if I accidentally changed it when unlocking/locking it (which i highly doubt), but either way - that was problematic for me.

I bought this lock last week to lock up my bike.

Got it in the mail, set the new combination to match my PIN and every other 4 number code I have ever set up... made sure it worked with the new combination and went ahead and threw it in my backpack.

Headed home (where my bike was) and when I went to unlock the lock and lock up my bike the stupid thing wouldn't open.

I have tried everything I can possibly think of and I have not been successful at getting it open. I thought maybe I imagined the arrows were in a different spot, maybe I had one number off, maybe I had two numbers off (trying both above and below on these last two options)... no luck.

Going to throw it away and get a key lock like I have in the past. Thought the combination would save me the hassle of carrying my keys around, but really it just helped me throw 10 bucks down the drain.

Very difficult to set combination. Hard to turn red lock setting mechanism. Took care to set combo but lock "froze" in locked position.

After having hard time opening it up first time I could never set new code. Gone over manual/instructions, asked my friends but no luck. I never had this much trouble with similar types of locks before.
Probably it's not built for me. Don't recommend this at all.

This lock will open when it is not on the combination you set. The teeth are not substantial enough on the bar that goes into the combination dial. A good yank will open the lock no matter what the combination dial is set on.

Well, this lock seemed like a terrific idea: harder to get undone than my old U-lock, longer cable so I could lock my bike up in non-traditional spot.

However, and unfortunately, my bike was stolen today, locked up to a sidewalk bike rack, so I'm thinking that this lock wasn't the most theft-proof lock. :(