Clarke CHT728 Heavy Duty Motorcycle Padlock and Chain review
The Clarke CHT728 Heavy Duty Motorcycle Padlock and Chain is a great way to provide easy, effective bike security at an affordable price.
It’s a sad fact of life that motorcycles are more vulnerable to theft than most vehicles especially if you don’t have access to a lockable garage or secure shed. But even if you do it’s still all too easy for your bike to become a target when you park your bike in public spaces.
Which is why some kind of bike security is a must when you’re out and about. Alarms, disc locks and trackers have their place but one of the most effective methods remains a ‘good old fashioned’, heavy duty chain and padlock, especially if you use it to secure your machine to an immovable object such as a lamp post or fence. An alarm, for example, doesn’t stop your machine being wheeled away or lifted into a van.
Machine Mart has a very affordable, heavy duty motorcycle padlock and chain for just £23.98 – which is truly impressive as many alternatives can easily cost £100 or more.
The CHT728 padlock and chain comprises a usefully long (1m) chain made from hardened steel with extra thick (9.5mm) square section links. This is then also covered in a strong fabric sleeve which serves to protect your wheels, paintwork or other items from chips or abrasion.
This chain can then be secured with the included Clarke heavy duty padlock which, even more impressively, comes with not two but FOUR keys.
The result is sufficiently sizeable and conspicuous to deter most thieves from the outset. It’s also long enough to easily secure your bike to roadside furniture and, weighing 2.69kg all-in, it’s also hefty but still easily portable, especially if your bike has panniers or a top box. It’s also capable for other uses such as securing garden equipment or gates and has received many favourable reviews.
Best of all, though, at under £25, the Clarke CHT728 is also great value. In fact, at this price, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t invest in some decent bike security. No wonder then, that it’s also a best seller.
More info on the Clarke CHT728 Heavy Duty Motorcycle Padlock and Chain and other bike specific products can be found on Machine Mart’s official website.
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A vastly-experienced motorcycle journalist and bike tester, Phil West is also an ex-Executive Editor of MCN, former Editor of Bike and What Bike?, author of numerous motorcycle books and has ridden virtually every bike of the last 30 years.
