Raleigh Protector 100 lock review

Budget option, and it shows

Our rating

1.5

16.99

Warren Rossiter

Published: October 24, 2010 at 11:00 am

Our review

A cheap, sizeable option that’s not tough against bolt croppers

The budget-priced Raleigh Protector comes with a plastic mount bracket, but that’s about as good as it gets for this super-cheap U-lock.

It’s well sized, with a shackle that’s usable, but neither thick (10mm) nor tough enough. We snapped through it in just 2.9 seconds with our trusty bolt croppers so it doesn’t really offer a great deal of protection. Supplied with two keys.

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Warren Rossiter

Senior technical editor

Warren is our senior technical editor for road and gravel. With 27 years of experience, he’s been testing bikes since before BikeRadar and the internet existed! With an encyclopedic knowledge of bikes and what some would consider an excessive bike collection, Warren has been the mastermind behind our road Bike of the Year tests for over a decade. He has penned more than 2,750 bike tests. His words have been published in Cycling Plus, Bikeradar, Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cycling News, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, T3 and a whole host of other publications. You’ll also find Warren as a regular on the BikeRadar Podcast and our YouTube channel. He’s covered all the 21st-century innovations in cycling and ridden in Europe, Asia, Australasia, America and Africa. He’s been a judge for the Eurobike awards and judged handmade bikes at Bespoked.

Height: 6’2”/188cm
Bike size:58cm/L/XL