This bike lock is pretty clever. Most of these U-shaped locks are notoriously easy to pick, often just using a simple Bic pen.
This lock offers no apparent keyway. And when you do find a place to put the key, all you get is a hollow cylinder. Watch the video to see how this works. The coolness starts at about the two minute mark.
If someone buys Jim lunch with Tim Cook, pick me up one of these locks, too!
Wow. Impressive countermeasures to lock picking.
I haven’t had a bike in years, but did have one of the old Kryptonite locks with the u-shaped bar like that. That seemed to me to be pretty “ultimate” way back in its day.
But apparently not, if a company like this one would go to such lengths to thwart lock picking.
So this looks pretty “ultimate” today–but at what “expense”? Beyond the probable high cost not being known or revealed in the video, the key looks to be rather “fiddly.” It’s small and rather hard to grasp. Might be unpleasant to do so in cold/hot weather, or during a downpour.
Here’s a question then, given that is a clever idea, could it be patented?
Are you assuming it hasn’t been?
It is an interesting solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist.
The actual lock mechanism is not the failure point of U-locks. Except for the no-longer-used round key design you mentioned, most U-locks from reputable manufacturers use cylinder designs that are hard to pick.
A bike thief is far more likely to cut the shackle with a portable angle grinder, or lever it with a jack.
agreed. clever, but the shackle is the more likely point of failure…not too many thieves with lock pick experience out there. picking is hard and takes time.