http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: missing - Recent Posts en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:32:28 +0000 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>