Scumbags

[BSRU]

Some poor guy at work today is in for a shock when he returns to the bike shed. Some scumbags have cut through his cable lock and nicked his bike, leaving their an old MTB on the floor. I think his bike was selected as it was isolated making it easy to gain access to the lock.

It is probably the two guys who I reported to security yesterday acting suspiciously near our bike shed, which is on private land and not a through way. I noticed two guys on MTB's, one with a large rucksack probably with the cutters in, entering the car park looking for something, as soon as they saw the bike shed they headed straight for it. They exited sharpish when they realised I had seen them.

Fortunately for me, my bike was jammed in the corner by someone else's bike making it difficult to access the four locks, one a gold sold secure D lock and two Defcons, which are laptop alarms I use as they give off a loud alarm if moved or the cable is cut.

 

[hackbike 666]

Do you know what locks were fitted on the missing bike?

 

[BSRU]

I do not know the make, will have a look later, I think it may have been a non-branded cable combination lock.

 

[HLaB]

Bummer :-( when will folk learn though cable locks are only good for scumbags :-(

 

[BSRU]

Unlucky for him as they are supposed to be doing some work on the bike shed in the next few weeks to address security issues, although they will not tell us exactly what they are going to do. Hopefully move it to somewhere more visible and can be seen by one of the many cctv cameras, currently it is in a blind spot.

 

[hackbike 666]

Also I see at a lot of railway stations a lot of bikes where the wheels aren't locked up...Before I learnt I interrupted a thief at Walthamstow Central Station in 1985 who was trying to get my bike and had cut through one of the two locks...After that I changed my locks....That saying...the most determined thief with the right tools will get through any lock.

Actually I couldn't have learnt...I had a bike nicked in 1988 and 1990.

 

[BSRU]

It was a Master lock combination cable lock, it looks like it was the £5 version.

 

[BSRU]

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Those things are a load of shite, you don't even need a pair of crops to break them. There is a way of cracking the code.
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The lock was probably worth less 1% of the cost of the bike, the bike was only a couple of months old and was generally not ridden in the rain so a good steal for the bike stealers.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

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^crawl that please google and put it somewhere prominant, there's a good spider

As Lee says, no tools required. Not even a stethoscope. The worst ones can be done in about 10 seconds - about as fast as it takes to enter the combination the "normal" way so no hanging around looking suspicious, just twirl the dials and away you go

 

[downfader]

[QUOTE 1162535"]
Those things are a load of shite, you don't even need a pair of crops to break them. There is a way of cracking the code.
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Not only that if you've got two guys you can just play tug-o-war with it and it'll come apart. The locking mech on the cheap code lock is only aluminium iirc. They're s*** locks.

I used to use a Master Lock cable on the old hybrid - but only for putting through the helmet vents to lock the helmet to the frame. Saved dragging the thing around the shops. Cost me £3, used a motorcycle chain to secure the bike to the stand however.

 

[BSRU]

This has made me look at my bike security while at work, so I have decided to upgrade some of my cheaper stuff to an Almax Immobiliser Series 4 Uber chain and a squire SS65CS lock.

Mainly based on the principle that criminals normally go for the easiest option which makes the most profit.