Bike Security Bike Locks

[jared3377]

Well, I had a bike (not an MB though) swiped when I used to use a cable-lock, so I don't trust those anymore. Anyone with a real sharp bolt-cutter can slice right through it.

What I've been using the last 1+ year for my MB is a Watch Dog U-lock. It's a little heavy to carry around, but it's both strong and inexpensive. I bought it after reading some online ratings.

The bottom line, though, is that if a thief wants your bike bad enough and has the right tools, there's not a lot we can do. I prefer the U-locks because they can't be cut with a hand-powered bolt cutter, but they can be cut through with a hacksaw in about 10-15 minutes. I've heard of some folks doubling-up on locks, using one cable lock and one U-lock, since it takes extra time, not to mention extra tools for the thief.

 

[bamabikeguy]

This depressing news jumped out at me last week....

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster

Tobias is laughing. And laughing. The effect is disconcerting. It's a bwa-ha-ha kind of evil mastermind laugh—appropriate if you've just sacked Constantinople, checkmated Deep Blue, or handed Superman a Dixie cup of kryptonite Kool-Aid, but downright scary in a midtown Manhattan restaurant during the early-bird special.

Our fellow diners begin to stare. Tobias doesn't notice and wouldn't care anyway. He's as rumpled and wild as a nerdy grizzly bear. His place mat is covered in diagrams and sketched floor plans and scribbled arrows. His laugh fits him like a tinfoil hat. It goes on for a solid 20 seconds.

But Tobias isn't crazy. Far from it. He's a professional lock breaker, a man obsessively—perhaps compulsively—dedicated to cracking physical security systems. He doesn't play games, he rarely sees movies, he doesn't attend to plants or pets or, currently, a girlfriend. Tobias hacks locks. Then he teaches the public how to hack them, too.

The guy has a web site, that instructs how to beat locks, and this part jumped out at me:

But to Tobias, ****ing off The Man isn't the point, not entirely. Nor is it, entirely, to make himself famous or rich—not that he's allergic to either outcome. The point, he says, is to "make **** better." Tobias thinks of himself as a humble public servant. When he attacks the Kryptonite bike lock or the Club (or those in-room safes at Holiday Inn or Caesars Palace), he's not a bad guy—he's just Ralph Nader with a slim jim, protecting consumers by exposing locks, safes, and security systems that aren't actually locked, safe, or secure. At least, not from people like him.

I haven't gone to his site yet, to find out what he recommends to lock up a bike, maybe it would be a good idea to check it out. (I didn't have time to read the whole thing, nor click his site)

But forget bike locks and hotel room safes: These days, Tobias is attacking the lock famous for protecting places like military installations and the homes of American presidents and British royals.

Between stabs at his salad, Tobias hands me his latest idea of fun: nearly 300 pages of self-published hacker-porn detailing his attack on the allegedly uncrackable Medeco high-security lock. "Trust me, this will cause a *******ed riot!" he says, dabbing at tears of joy with a paper napkin. "Oh yeah, this is way, way bigger than the liquid explosives thing!" And he's right, it is bigger—and with way, way bigger consequences.

 

[bamabikeguy]

I checked out Tobias' website, apparently he's just selling a 1,400 page book.

http://www.security.org/

googling "tamper proof bicycle lock" brings up this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...sult&cd=1&q=tamper+proof+bicycle+lock&spell=1

 

[pdxrhett]

I use a standard coil lock, then two U-Locks for my tires, then I have my motor locked up as well. All together, about 5 locks on my bike (see someone steal that )

 

[samijubal]

You guys that think your bikes are covered by the anti-theft insurance, do a search for the lock company and insurance. Supposedly it's very hard to make a claim and costs money to do so only to have them give whatever the depreciated value of the bike is, if you get anything at all. I've yet to find someone who said they were reimbursed. It sounded good to me too thinking the bike would be covered, in reality very few people if any collect on that insurance.

 

[luke]

what is rearly needed is a lock that if it is broken or cut electicutes the perpertator,exsplodes but that would damage the bike or showers some toxin under presure so that it will penertrate the perps skin and poison them.why dont they market devises like that there is such a demand.

 

[impression]

WEll, when on the road i use my Kryptonite New York Forgetabout it lock

I want to also get this
https://www.kryptonitelock.com/Products/ProductDetail.aspx?cid=1000&scid=1002&pid=1169

wrap it through the wheels and engine