Do you rely on a disc lock?

Well, do you? When you leave your bike all safe and sound, do you
rely on locks with cylinder-type keys as security? It may be worth
your while to have a look at the movies that are linked from this
thread if you do:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=48e7ea037478ce12c576875292ead32e&t=66128&page=1&pp=25

I wonder if this is an elaborate windup, as these locks have been
touted as being pick-proof for years, and a lot of "Sold Secure" bike
locks use them - and to get a SS label they have to resist the
attempts of 'professional theives' to break them for five minutes,
iirc.

What do you think?

 

Arse.

i before e, you ignorant ginger ****.

 

Not a wind up. Common knowledge.

Here's a picture of one of the more affordable jobbies:

http://www.southord-lockpicks.com/images/fullsize/tpxa-7.jpg

Not that I know anything about picking locks.

 

I'll let you know in a sec.
<watches kryptonite ev disc lock vid>

Bugger. I've got one of them.

<gets kryptonite ev disc lock>
<gets bic biro>
<breaks pen>

<some pens later>

I couldn't do it, so in conclusion I'm shit at nicking my own bike.

 

I'm sure I heard years ago (possibly in a DiRE report) that those
cylinder locks were pickable in seconds with the correct equipment, and
that they shouldn't be relied on in isolation.

 

In that case, what's the point of having the lock. How much are these
things anyway?

 

From what I could tell from the vids, I don't think a bic is what you
want - the plastic's too brittle, see?

I think you need a pen made of a plastic that's slightly more malleable,
but I haven't got my disk lock to hand to try it out.

 

It's the way he taps them.

 

I think that if some bastard wants to nick my bike then, assuming they're
not insane (it *is* a Triumph!), they're welcome to it if they can get round
the disc lock[1], normal-key u-lock[1], alarm and immobiliser - if they're
that desperate to nick it from my garage then I'd rather they took it and
fucked off than having to hang around, thus forcing me to try and defend an
inanimate object and put myself in the line of their bolt
croppers/crowbars/empty biros...

Dave

[1] Not always used away from the home, admittedly.....

 

Nope! I rely on the sidecar. Not easy to stuff both in the back of a
Transit van, and if they manage to ride it away the chances are they'll
kill themselves, or attract the attention of the local A&E department,
in no time flat.

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For show.

Next to nothing. ITYF they're the same type as the vending machine
locks, spesh the cheap ones.

BTW, are you busy next week? If the weather's good and I can negotiate a
week off, I could possibly come down to the field of Uck one day...

 

Gotta love the ads Google's turned up on that page:

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Just managed to open one of my disc locks with that method :-S


It's the biro's... we should make the fuckers illegal.

--

 

jsp wrote:
SNIP

It's strange. I have two of the same disclock, one of which I have opened
about 20 - 30 times now tonight with a biro, and the other which won't open
with the biro method at all.

 

Dynamic wrote

I can't find my disklock but there is this biro that is sneering at me
from a wormhole.[1]


[1] Next Tuesday 18.30 Radio 4, don't miss it.

 

<delurk>

No, they're the ones that the charities send you for free. Not the BIC's at
10p a throw.

 

Engraved on the memory Mr A - did you ever read that book btw?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember steve auvache

What is?

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GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Excellent. I'd prolly have missed it, otherwise.

 

At a guess, Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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