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From: joe@dual.UUCP (Joe Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: locks and alarms
Message-ID: <1223@dual.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:23:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 13:23:28 1986
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Summary: Fork Locks Are No Deterent, Or "How To Break a Fork Lock"

Most fork locks are there to keep the honest people from temptation,
but I"ve had a bike stolen that was only fork-locked. The amount of
play that these fork lock mechanisms have is enough so that the pin
can be sheared right off by grabbing the handle bars and wrenching
them violently to bang the pin on the side of its hole. If the pin
doesn't break the pot-metal that holds the lock mechanism to the
rest of the bike will break. I've since known people who lost the
keys to *their* bikes do it themselves so that they could wheel the
bike to a safer place while they went home for the spare!