Ways not to lock your bike

Clogs?

Kensington and Chelsea College

Is that a picture from the Art Exhibition?

just spotted this on campus. jesus wept

Your name's not down, you're not riding the bike.

Not really locked that badly, but lol it's that bike again!

Silly lock is silly.

Also exceedingly anti.

I saw a BLB bike at with that abus known to be compromised cable lock people like, not the end of the world, but they'd contrived to put it on in such a way that it went through the front wheel and over the bars but not the frame at all... whoops.

Silly bike is silly.

ffty.

Is this a overgrown BMX? 0_o

Spotted by John Lewis...

Not really locked that badly, but lol it's that bike again!

So random. After our work Christmas party, the after-party was at one of the developer's flat in Stoke Newington and I swear that this bike was in the living room and belonged to his housemate, (the housemate who got royally fucked off with twenty pissed Shoreditch types playing drinking game sin his living room at 2am on a Monday).

If you are on here, I'm really, really sorry. If it isn;t this bike, it is an almost identical build.

Silly lock is silly.

What the fuck is going on with that thing?

Luckily the guy showed up after 5 minutes... needless to say I was raging but the guy was genuinely apologetic!

Luckily the guy showed up after 5 minutes... needless to say I was raging but the guy was genuinely apologetic!

Ugh, the worst. I had someone pull that as a scam when I was in Bristol for Bespoked earlier in the year. Snapped his cable lock and rode off. Wasn't leaving my whip overnight to get nicked. You got lucky man!

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What the fuck is going on with that thing?

Nothing wrong in this pic see this link

http://www.gizmag.com/foldylock-folding-bike-lock/29189/

dont think id trust those foldy locks at all

Detoxman, that's an Abus Bordo not a FoldyLock. But both of them share a design flaw; the barrel of the lock creates a nice gap between the plates directly connected to it, into which a jack can easily be inserted to prise those plates apart and destroy the lock.

The Abus in particular has a very embarassing vulnerability common to the type of lock it's built around; you can open it with a blank and a hammer in seconds. abus bordo mit schlagschlüssel geknackt - YouTube

Is that just a generic "pre-cutting" blank such as Timpsons et al would have in bulk?

Not exacly - Not exactly; it's a blank with a simple modification made which will enable it to pick a whole class of locks. But these keys are easy to obtain.

Modern D-Locks are not vulnerable to this - different style of key. Abus seem to have decided that the greater room afforded by this design would let them use a more standard lock. Doh. Bumping a bike lock in daylight is going to look much less suspicious than doing the same to somebody's front door.

Thank bruce . Will refresh my experiences.

To be fair, if the lock is at full extension and there's no way to adjust it so that the two directly-attached plates are parallel, the jack attack is much more difficult. But that's a hard thing to guarantee.

wait so they just use a blank key and a hammer and hey presto the lock opens?

jup. shocked?

Fuck, that led me to google videos and found one that showed how to do it on locks similar to my house locks!