I get that. My low level gripe is just that if someone is gonna pay $600 for their bars, it should just come with cylinders in the kit. No relatively sane person is gonna leave that investment unlocked.
IIRC it is done so that you can choose to match the locks upon purchase, buy replacements, stores are motivated to carry lock cylinders, and you can expand based on what you already own. (Don’t shoot the messenger :)
It probably also has to do with how contract manufacturing works.
This is the reason. If you have multiple or existing ones you have the ability to match the lock number to use the same key for existing and new locks. If you buy different items that require locks you buy locks with the same number straight away.
I get that. My low level gripe is just that if someone is gonna pay $600 for their bars, it should just come with cylinders in the kit. No relatively sane person is gonna leave that investment unlocked.
IIRC it is done so that you can choose to match the locks upon purchase, buy replacements, stores are motivated to carry lock cylinders, and you can expand based on what you already own. (Don’t shoot the messenger :)
It probably also has to do with how contract manufacturing works.
This is the reason. If you have multiple or existing ones you have the ability to match the lock number to use the same key for existing and new locks. If you buy different items that require locks you buy locks with the same number straight away.
I don’t think there is a huge market for stolen Thule bars. I never got a lock for mine.
I’d be more concerned with anything on my bars. But I’m not going to leave anything valuable on mine and rely on those locks on my bars to protect it.