http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: lock - Recent Posts en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:24:17 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21846#post-382244 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:20:04 +0000 gembo 382244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Far better design would require the key to lock it, then if you lose you key that is on you. This whole threads is caused by bad design of the lock. See also the benefit of Mortice over Yale </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21846#post-382243 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:43:23 +0000 bakky 382243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All’s well that ends well, as they say! I hate the ‘disappeared key’ feeling with a vengeance. I once locked up the bakkyfiets with an alarmed motorcycle disc lock at St James Quarter which similarly allows fitting without the key, and then we had a taxi round-trip to retrieve the key from home as we were too short on our deadline to bus it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21846#post-382241 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:10:47 +0000 LaidBack 382241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This was your St Andrew's Day holiday I believe. At least it was a memorable one, albeit for wrong reasons! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21846#post-382235 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:47:59 +0000 Arellcat 382235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today it was my turn to be rubbish, because I failed to notice that I left the house this morning without the means to open my bicycle lock. Lest malicious readers think I own only one lock, heh, I have several, but the lock I brought with me today can be <em>closed</em> without a key. For convenience I suppose.</p> <p>Luckily* this discovery happened in the company of several CCEers. @bakky lent me a spare U-lock as extra security while @LaidBack and I went off to consider padlock destruction techniques and in search of another cafe so that I could wait for a lift home to look for the missing key. I found it, fortunately, and made sure it will Never Happen Again. Ever. Probably.</p> <p>I eventually made it back into town and rescued my bike, failed to transact any business at three shops I visited during the afternoon, so rode home into the teeth of whatever the latest storm is and later delivered Big Lock to @bakky with the help of the huge enduro motorbike because I'd had enough of cycling for today.</p> <p>* and in equal measure, embarassingly </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104410 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:10:30 +0000 Pocopiglet 104410@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>FYI, if you miss out on the Uni deal you can attend St Leonards Police Station and buy the same lock there for £10. I presume other stations may do the same? (At least Sprog MKI was e-mailed by community constable via tenants association to that effect about 6 months ago.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104390 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:05:57 +0000 EddieD 104390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Got my lock - it's better by a mile than my current one :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104361 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:00:36 +0000 Radgeworks 104361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A pretty decent deal there from the UNI,<br /> particularly as nowadays just having a cable only secured bike seems to scream the advert as follows: </p> <p>"Simply try and slice through the cable provided with your trusty handheld boltcutters and you will very very likely succeed in stealing me" </p> <p>Prevention is sometimes better than curing of course.</p> <p>R :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104306 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:43:21 +0000 cc 104306@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In my answer to the travel survey I asked the Uni to stop promoting crap like the QBC and to support decent infrastructure instead, such as making it possible to cycle round George Square without losing all your fillings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104267 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:19:05 +0000 thewavecry 104267@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh Uni just issued an internal travel survey to staff asking fairly specific questions about current travel arrangements and what changes would make you more likely to take public transport, cycle etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104263 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:46:01 +0000 SRD 104263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wahoo! After 4 years of bike commuting I have finally managed to join my BUG. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104249 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:36:14 +0000 SRD 104249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh is doing better of late with more bike racks etc. Seems to be pushed by the 'sustainability' folks. I've been asked to put myself forward as a sustainable travel 'ambassador' for my work place. </p> <p> But I will take it seriously when the post which is responsible for bikes is not also all the post responsible for parking. </p> <p>I would also like t see the Uni being more progressive/proactive with the city about various things. Eg making sure access to the university buildings is not cut off by roadworks. And that the 'quality' bike route is actually that. Etc.</p> <p>As I said elsewhere recently, they have the knowledge and/or the people who know how to research stuff, but need to take advantage of that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104247 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:26:18 +0000 Arellcat 104247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh Uni has always impressed me with its active cycling community.</p> <p>My alma mater took no interest at all in people commuting by bike, even going so far as to build an overflow car park, while leaving the bikeists to make do with handrails that were better than the 'official' solution which was a couple of rusty steel poles bolted to the wall near the main entrance, positioned just high enough to be of no use without a long cable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9682#post-104244 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:20:36 +0000 cc 104244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On 14/03/13 there will be big discounts available on high quality locks, says an email that's been sent round the Edinburgh University BUG lists:</p> <p><em><br /> Hi All</p> <p>Tomorrow we have an extra Dr Bike happening outside the University Visitor Centre at Potterrow. This will be from 12 noon until 2pm.</p> <p>Lothian and Borders Police, University Security and the Transport and Parking Office will also be on hand to offer advice on keeping bikes secure. The key message we want to get across is the importance of using a good quality bike lock to minimise the chance of theft. We will be selling high quality Sold Secure Gold Level bicycle locks for £10, instead of usual retail price of about £45. The sale of bicycle locks will be strictly limited to 1 per member of University staff or student. Your matriculation or staff card must be shown in order to make the purchase. There is a limited supply of locks.</p> <p>Please take a look at this short news article and video we have prepared in conjunction with the Crime Prevention Officers at Lothian and Borders Police:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/transport/news/better-lock-bike" rel="nofollow">http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/transport/news/better-lock-bike</a></p> <p>If you cannot attend tomorrow there will be another opportunity to come along to the Bike Security Roadshow on Tuesday 26th March at Edinburgh College of Art (details on the link provided above).<br /> </em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75729 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:02:02 +0000 crowriver 75729@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does the lock have a "Sold Secure" rating of Silver or above? You'll need an angle grinder. If it has a lower rating, or is unrated, then simply use a heavy-ish hammer (2lb hammer should do). Hit the protruding barrel of the lock cylinder where you insert the key, away from the loop of the D.</p> <p>I lost the keys for an old style/cheap D-lock and it took just four well aimed blows from a 2lb hammer, or about 30 seconds, to spring the lock open. Lock itself was undamaged: if I'd found the key I could have relocked it! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75724 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:05:36 +0000 kaputnik 75724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In my line of work, there's a rather large problem with plant machinery (JCBs, telehandlers, forklifts etc.) being sold with interchangable "site keys". Great if you want to save time around the construction site so that workmen don't have to hunt around for the right key, pain in the unmentionables if you've got an interest in plant machinery not being stolen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75716 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:22:00 +0000 Kim 75716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><center><a href="http://youtu.be/0hsM88Wx8QQ">http://youtu.be/0hsM88Wx8QQ</a></center> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75657 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:57:52 +0000 cb 75657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"30 years ago there was a 'scandal' involving Citadel where a batch of locks were manufactured and sold with interchangeable keys. "</p> <p>30 years ago, if you locked yourself out of your car the usual technique to get back in (if you didn't have a coat hanger handy) was to find someone else with the same type of car to see if their key would work. Quite often it did.</p> <p>The first bike lock I bought was a traditional padlock plus chain affair. £3.99 from Quality Cycles in D'Mains I seem to recall. I returned it when I discovered that it could be opened with a flat bladed screwdriver.</p> <p>The woman in the shop tried to argue along the lines that "no wonder it's broken if you go poking a screwdriver into it". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75646 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:56:03 +0000 SRD 75646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Off to the EBC sale at lunchtime, then."</p> <p>See you there :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75645 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:55:02 +0000 wingpig 75645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. Used to have a Citadel, which lasted for years until I found just the D half in the back green one morning eight or nine years ago, but with my bike still against the railings it had been locked to. Since then/currently have a barrel-keyed Kryptonite. Off to the EBC sale at lunchtime, then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75641 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:31:48 +0000 Uberuce 75641@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nopes, my ex had a miraculous escape from losing her key after the fixing snapped like that. Her bike was locked up outside the Cameo on a Friday, so we reeeeally weren't keen on leaving it there, nor keen on having to organise and pay for cutting tool use.</p> <p>About four hours later, she discovered the key had been nestling in the elastic bandy bit at the bottom of her sweater, which had rolled up on itself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75639 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:12:56 +0000 SRD 75639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We have a problem with the plastic bit of the bike lock key breaking so that you can't attach it to keyring. are we (by which I mean Mr SRD, actually) the only people with this problem? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75632 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:58:44 +0000 chdot 75632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>30 years ago there was a 'scandal' involving Citadel where a batch of locks were manufactured and sold with interchangeable keys. </p> <p>The company tried a re-call scheme before this information became 'public'. Largely successful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75631 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:53:55 +0000 chdot 75631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"If older d locks could be opened by Biro lid, were they being mis-sold.?"</p> <p>Basically yes!</p> <p>Think problem first surfaced with Kryptonite.</p> <p><a href="http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=23573" rel="nofollow">http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=23573</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75629 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:48:29 +0000 gembo 75629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If older d locks could be opened by Biro lid, were they being mis-sold.? can I put the case for a coiled cable with a combination, ,then you do not need a key, a spare key or an angle grinder. Also you can park in any bay of the bike shed not just the bits at the edges </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75628 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:37:50 +0000 chdot 75628@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I can't see the code number from the d-lock"</p> <p>Nope - just on keys...</p> <p>WRITE IT DOWN WHILE YOU STILL HAVE key FOLKS. (Only 'good' brands do spares.)</p> <p>Better still make sure you 'always' have a spare. </p> <p>Last time I lost a key fortunately it wasnt locked to a bike - waste of a good lock though! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75626 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:25:30 +0000 spooner 75626@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't see the code number from the d-lock. I'm not sure a biro is gonna cut the mustard - as they say! </p> <p>Battery powered angle gringers, hmmmmmm I like that idea. </p> <p>Thanks guys.</p> <p><img src="http://oi45.tinypic.com/dcwj2d.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75405 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:12:44 +0000 Tom 75405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it's an old one that takes a round key I think you can open them by pushing a biro case into the keyhole and twisting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75395 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:36:27 +0000 recombodna 75395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Angle grinder will make short work of it.... OR you could wait and see if the lock rusts quicker than the bike.</p> <p>PM me if you don't have access to a grinder. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75386 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:01:35 +0000 chdot 75386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Does anyone know if I can buy spares or will I need to get an angle grinder to chomp it off "</p> <p>Depends on make BUT you need to know number!</p> <p>Angle grinders take a couple of minutes.</p> <p>You can use battery powered ones in public without the police being called... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7235#post-75385 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:58:43 +0000 spooner 75385@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I recently locked my bike in my communal shed with a D Lock and now cannot find the key. Does anyone know if I can buy spares or will I need to get an angle grinder to chomp it off ? The bike is slowly rusting away,,,,,, </p>