on 11/23/11 10:08 AM, tthomashardie at tthomashar...@gmail.com wrote: > I used the modified Sheldon method, but through the seat stays rather > than the chain stays. The front wheel had a locking skewer. I'm not > sure how they got it. The lock was missing too. Some people on the > forums suggest that they could have used brute force. Maybe pull-up in > cargo van and smash the lock/core and drive off. I really don't know. > I do know that true security is a myth and anything can get stolen. In > the future I plan to start using two good locks. Sort of a pain to > carry around, but it will take twice as long to rip off. An extra > couple seconds or minutes could be as good a deterrent as anything.
General locking instructions and theories have been covered well, and they all lead to the same conclusion - if you leave it locked, you may lose it. The longer it's left, the more likely the lift. The more you leave it in the same place each time, the more times a potential theif has to evaluate the coinditions. The best you can hope for is diverting a low-tech thief to another, less well defended bicycle. However, something in your description caught my eye, and it was a topic I was related to another person over the weekend - if you have a Kryptonite lock from 8-10 years ago with an open-end lock that uses a cylinder type key, they are prone to attacks with - believe it or not - a Bic pen cylinder (or similar - this is not a case of French constructeur superiority...). Basically, you can work the open end of the pen barrel into the lock and smoosh it around for a while until it pushes out the tumblers and then twist it around to open the lock. There was a well-travelled video of this, a subsequent recall from Kryptonite (pretty sure now discontinued) and much internet chatter. But, as I was helping a friend work on his son's bike, there it was - that prototypical krypto with that exact lock type. And he asked me if it was a good lock... This doesn't apply to the newer, middle of the hasp, slotted key types. - Jim "All bikes weigh 40#'s. (Weight of bike) + (Weight of lock) = 40" -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com "Nigel did some work for some of the other riders at Allied, onces who still rode metal. He hadn't liked it when Chevette had gone for a paper frame." -- William Gibson, "Virtual Light" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
