[northwind]

You can still cut an Almax with the right hardware, but the idea is just to make your bike harder to nick than the next one. They're expensive but no more expensive than most of those joke chains, you don't always get what you pay for.

OTOH, my chain is a £10 Oxford Bathplug (that may not be the exact model name, but it is what it is) which I could probably bite through. Its job is to deter random passersby from just wandering off with my bike, cost isn't really a concern tbh for something so important but convenience is- the Almax chains are mahoosive.