Un-cuttable bike lock?

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,667
edited June 2014 in Commuting chat
Close to my heart after some twunt cut a lock on a nice old Dawes I had a few years ago

http://www.bikeradar.com/commuting/news ... ock-41252/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... -see-video

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  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    ok until the padlock goes faulty.. :-)
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Didn't put too much effort into cutting through the lock did he?

    Kevlar is relatively easy to cut - clear that out the way and the chain will be simple to get through with bolt cutters.
  • Long_Time_Lurker
    Long_Time_Lurker Posts: 1,068
    I think that the idea is that the kevlar wraps around the cutter to render it unusable.
    It's an interesting concept, but I wouldn't want to risk it on one of my bikes other than my ratbike.

    (That said, he is poncing around in skinny jeans on an SS bike, which probably indicates that I'm not in his target demographic. :wink: )
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  • kurako
    kurako Posts: 1,098
    zx6man wrote:
    ok until the padlock goes faulty.. :-)

    He did say he was trying to incorporate the lock into the finished design. It looks like a nice concept but surely you need two or what happens to the back wheel?
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Long Time Lurker wrote:
    ... poncing around in skinny jeans on an SS bike...

    with only a front brake and a freewheel. Trying to pretend he's on a fixie but failing.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,532
    zx6man wrote:
    ok until the padlock goes faulty.. :-)

    Well that applies to any lock, surely. The basic premise of combining two different types of protection - steel and kevlar - seems sound, as cutting devices are generally designed for one and not the other. Even if it is possible to cut away the kevlar first, before getting a grinder on the chain, that's an extra process and extra time. Interestingly, there's some benefit to not letting on that the kevlar is there as it is then more likely to entangle any cutting equipment.

    I'd agree that some of the testing in the video didn't look that scientific, and an in-situ test would be more convincing.
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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    As has already been pointed out, thieves won't bother with the cable/fabric element, they'll go straight for the padlock and that's where the real weaknesses are.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,532
    lostboysaint wrote:
    As has already been pointed out, thieves won't bother with the cable/fabric element, they'll go straight for the padlock and that's where the real weaknesses are.
    And as has also been pointed out, he is planning to incorporate the lock in some way, presumably protecting it in a similar way.
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