RIGHT and WRONG way to lock your bike

so that's just a Kryptonite cable lock that's wrapped around the front wheel so that's my trusty bolt cutter right so we're just going to go ahead and snip it and that's gone hide the evidence and nope there it is about to actually leave that behind and it's gone okay hello and welcome to random things this is Ty and for this video I want to talk about how you lock your bike up because right now e-bike thefts Is On The Rise um it's actually really rampant because these are finding it very lucrative to steal these bikes because they're so expensive and a lot of times people don't lock them up properly either with the wrong type of locks which you saw in the intro video they simply just use a cable lock which I can cut pretty easily with a bolt cutter that can just hide and carry with me in a backpack or they lock it up improperly so again the focus is videos how to lock your bike up properly so we get these bikes and we get these beefy chains but sometimes we get a little lazy and we don't lock it up correctly in the sense that we are locking up through the carrying bar so I suppose they can cut this but what's easy to cut in this particular example is I can just cut the chain link fence right I don't need to cut this block this chain because I know that I can't cut this very well with this but I can cut this chain link pretty easily and walk it away now I'm not going to cut the chain link fence because I'm not going to destroy private property for the example but I'm just going to let you know if I can cut through this cable like butter I can cut through that chain link pretty easily all right and then once I cut through that chain link I just have to tuck this away right I'll leave the chain on the bike wrap it up somehow um and then right away and once I get home then I'll take my time with the grinder and cut off the chain um now I have the bike right so this is where locking the bike up improperly um will cause you to lose your bike it doesn't matter you have a nice chain so now I get it sometimes you can't always lock it up by the bike rack so what can you do well in this particular example um what we can do is instead of locking it up to the actual link the chain link fence itself lock it to the Pole right it's going to be a lot harder for the thieves to cut the pole than to cut the chain link fence right okay so a better way to lock this bike up would be to actually move the chain so that it's through a major portion of the frame right as well as a hard to cut pull and then you can go ahead and lock it up that way that way they have to cut through either the pole the chain or cut the bike in half so in reality what's happening is you're making it difficult for them to choose your bike as a Target and they will find another bike that is an easier Target so let's talk about other ways to lock this bike up um at a bike rack here's another example of how a bike is improperly locked and this is actually what happened to me this is how I locked my bike up when I went to the pier to have lunch with my kids because I was in a rush and I was in a grumpy mood I locked it up very lazily because I had the kids do it um and all I did was wrap it through the lifting bar and then the chain the cable chain the cheap cable chain went through the bike rack even though I had a u-lock I just used it simply like a padlock and it just sat on the ground like this and when it's like this what makes it simple is a thief can come in with a bolt cutter and just go ahead and cut the cable the other thing is even if I didn't have a cable lock let's say I used a chain one of the problems with this locking way is that the chain is very low and that allows the thief to use the tool in such a way that they can leverage it against the ground right and put leverage on it because if I'm just using my chest muscles if it's up high there's only so much I can cut but if it's low on the ground I can actually leave it on the ground and use it as leverage and then I can cut an actual pretty thick chain and I have a separate video on how I cut an actual chain and so low on the ground is back you want to higher up so this is a wrong way of using a u-lock with a cable okay so let's talk about what is the right way so a lot of times when you buy a u-lock it comes with a cable and you kind of ask well what what's the point of the cable then it was so easy to cut well one of the things that happens is sometimes people steal the wheel especially like say on the road bike they have really fancy wheels and have a real easy quick release bike Hub so they can actually just pull the bike wheel off so the idea is that it's to lock the frame to a bike rack and then use the chain to kind of secure say your your wheels so let me show you how to a more proper way would be to then use the u-lock right run it through the frame and the bike rack right and then now you can run the cable and say through the bike rack itself as well through the tire back into the u-lock right and then so now the u-lock is around the frame of the bike the bike rack and then the cable itself is just there to protect the tire and just add a protection um it's not necessarily the cable that's saving the bike is the u-lock which is harder to cut and again because it's higher up I can't get leverage on it so I will have to use my arm muscles and even with a 36 inch bolt cutter which is a pretty beefy piece of uh Bowl cutter it'd be still very difficult if not impossible at least for me okay so now we've talked about what is the more proper way to use a u-lock and how to secure it against a bike rack and I say the proper way because I realized I was saying the right way and I don't want to say the right way because I just have a more preferred way of using my u-lock because I want to say you know the bike manufacturer the lock manufacturer can tell me at least this is my preferred way of using the u-lock okay the one thing I won't note is that I'm not talking about lock picking right there's a guy he's uh the lock picking lawyer um the guy is pretty amazing it seems like he can like pick anything and so we're not specifically talking about lock picking we're just talking about um a theft attack using like a bolt cutter and so locking your bike up this way I think it's a lot more secure way and proper way of protecting your bike from thieves so with that I hope you found the video helpful if you did please hit the like and share button if you're not a subscriber Please Subscribe that would really help me out as always I thank you for watching this video and I will see you on the next video which is part of a series of videos on how the properties secure your bike

Channel: Random Things

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Length: 8min 39sec (519 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 13 2023