[868] Why I Use This Lock On My Bicycle - Kryptonite Evolution Chain Lock (Series 4)

this is the lock-picking lawyer and rarely does a day go by when I'm not asked what bike lock I use so that's the question I'm going to address today I should start by noting that I have two bikes one is a nice road bike that I never leave anywhere unattended if I need to stop on a ride I either leave it with my riding partner where I carry it with me but I have another bike a real cheap one that I bought for the sole purpose of riding when I anticipate locking and leaving it so that's defense number one riding a bike that's not going to unduly attract or tempt thieves this lock is defense number two it's the kryptonite evolution series for bicycle chain lock this is the 90 centimeter variant though there are also 55 and 160 centimeters ins I just bought this for my personal use now that we have some nice riding weather and because I am going to use it I'm not showing the key bidding on camera so let's talk about why I chose this first it's a chain lock and that gives me lots of flexibility when locking my bike as opposed to a you lock this chain is a 10 millimeter hex link design made of a robust manganese steel and I think 10 millimeters is just about as big as you can go while still retaining good portability I think chains are also more resistant to angle grinders than you locks because chain links are hard to hold steady in field conditions I've tried doing it and the best solution I came up with was using vise grips to hold it steady but it still doesn't work very well if you use a compressed abrasive cutting wheel which I think cuts the fastest it's almost certainly going to miss a line at some point and explosively shatter it's very dangerous that leaves diamond impregnated steel wheels which can work but are slower and far more costly so let's turn to the lock now that holds everything closed we have a thick hardened steel armor on the outside and an aluminum casting inside the locking mechanism itself is fairly robust it is not subject to shimming attacks or any other bypasses that i've been able to come up with that leaves us with the disc detainer core is it awesome and I can certainly pick it but it's probably good enough and that's how I characterize this entire package probably good enough I could certainly spend more and get something beefier or more pick resistant but given that the lock literally costs as much as the bike it's going to secure I'm not sure that spending more would make a whole lot of sense so all that said let's lock this up and see what it takes to pick it open going to remove this key out of the frame of the camera now the first thing we're going to do is rotate all of those disks as far clockwise as they will go now that we've done this I'm going to get this disc detainer pick that Bosnian bill and I made and try to pick up disc number one I think I've done that and so we're tensioning off of one let's find disc number two okay click at it two three is loose that's probably a zero cut we may have to come back to that later four okay got a nice click out of four okay I think four is seven five binding got a click out of five six is binding there we go got a click out of six seven feels like another zero cut let's actually use that one for tension and try to set disc number one now so it doesn't take that long for me to open but I suspect this would be well beyond the skills of the average bike thief at least that's what I'm hoping in any case that's all I have for you today if you do have any questions or comments about this please put them below if you like this video and would like to see more like it please subscribe and as always have a nice day thank you

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Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Aww_Shucks]

me @ 3:48

[u/CovfefeYourself]

But can you play impromptu games of horseshoe with it???

[u/popeyeschicken]

did he say he made that lock picking tool??