Bike lock advice

breezy1985 · 08-06-2011 12:08pm #1

Anyone have any tips on breaking a bike lock like this one

Im repairing an old bike that i got from a friend but he doesnt know the lock code.

el tel · 08-06-2011 12:17pm

yeah right - nice try!

<btw, combination is 6969>

muckwarrior · 08-06-2011 12:26pm

A former flatmate regularly used to have to get me to open his combination lock because he kept forgetting the code. I didn't know the code either.

More expensive ones might be different, but for the cheapo ones all you have to do is keep tension on it, then see which dial is stiffest and turn it until you can kinda feel it click. Then another one will become stiff and you just repeat the process until it opens.

CramCycle · 08-06-2011 1:12pm

Pull on it with your bare hands till it snaps, thats how other bike thieves break them :eek:

kona · 08-06-2011 1:37pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Anyone have any tips on breaking a bike lock like this one

Im repairing an old bike that i got from a friend but he doesnt know the lock code.

Ive broken them with a pliers before. You dont need much to break them, they are ****.

seamus · 08-06-2011 1:40pm

5012095203537_001c_v001_zp?$160x160_generic$

3253561549236_001c_v001_zp?$160x160_generic$

Few taps, sorted right out.

Beasty · 08-06-2011 2:29pm

Even though it's a pretty basic lock, we don't allow threads that ask how to break them for obvious reasons

As it's a combination lock though, a little patience should get you there;)

Thanks

Beasty

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