Cable lock with concealed storage

A cable lock of the kind formed of a lock housing and a flexible shackle, wherein:

• the lock housing has the approximate configuration of a cylinder, elongated on its axis from front to rear, and comprises:
• a longitudinally elongated latch housing having a generally cylindrical side surface, defining through the side surface a longitudinally elongated latch reception slot;
• a generally L-shaped latch body receivable in said latch reception slot and having first and second arms, the first arm of the latch body being disposed generally longitudinally to the latch housing, extending forwardly from the second arm, and having an outer face defining a segment of said cylindrical side surface when the latch body is received in said slot, and the second arm of the latch body being disposed generally radially to the cylindrical housing and having a plunger recess in its rear face, wherein the latch body is rockable with respect to the latch housing by pressure applied laterally to the first arm;
• a lock means having differing open and closed configurations, operatively connected to said latch housing and having a plunger shaft selectively secured in said plunger recess and locking the latch body in place when the lock is in closed configuration, but resiliently biasing said plunger shaft into the latch body when the lock is in open position, whereby the latch body is releasable from the latch housing in response to relative rocking of the latch body;
• a resilient ring carried on said front to rear axis rearwardly of said latch housing, having an annular surface exposed along the cylindrical side of the lock housing;
• and
• friction locking means for selectively compressing and decompressing said ring, in which compressing causes the ring to expand radially, and in which decompressing allows the ring to retract radially.