Thoughts on bike locks
Having my bike stolen has made me wonder about locks more. Defeating most forms of bike locks are trivially easy with some lateral thinking.
This was my lock:
- key-based
- bumpkey (given a suitable blank or other key of same style), pick the lock, drill or freeze the lock (either LN2 or just adding in warm water on a day that's below freezing)
- combination-based
- guess or shoulder-surf the combination
- Cable/Chain
- Large bolt cutters, wire cutters or hacksaw
- U-Lock/D-Lock
- Use a jack inside the arms to apply outward force
Any other bicycle lock types or different attacks that you can think of? Any way to effectively defeat one of more of the above attacks? From a security perspective, we need to consider not only the permitted attacks, but all possible attacks.
In my case, they either defeated my combination (probably by shoulder-surfing), or just used some form of cutting attack. Since the lock wasn't left behind, I suspect the former more than the latter.