I put a rare earth magnet over the allen bolt head on the skewer to create confusion and deterrence. Not seeing an allen head is strange and I imagine a thief doesn't want to stand around staring at a potential wheel they're considering stealing trying to figure out what's going on. The magnet is strong and removing it is just fiddly enough that unless you know what's going ahead of time it would take you longer than expected to remove it. Allen keys are also attracted to the magnet so unless you fully remove the magnet from the skewer it makes it more difficult to get an allen key engaged.
On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 8:46:45 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > I have 4 that I got on sale and so they all have different keys… > > On Jun 10, 2026, at 8:40 PM, Al in SF <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 7:38:02 AM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! > wrote: > > I do have Pitlocks I bought from the marvelous Peter White that are just > sitting here. I bought them when the aluminum Hexlox failed, thinking I’d > have to give up those skewers. But I got those steel nuts and so these > Pitlocks have sat in their packages. > > Before I tear apart my bikes again and have to carry *4 different keys > around with the Pitlock system*, does anyone have a better, slicker > solution? > > > Wait, how many Pitlock sets do you have? If you only have one, you can buy > new sets that are keyed to your existing key. It's just a tiny little nut > that is different. > > Al in SF > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/j8WQEoUi51o/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0f526e1f-73c3-4758-a5c1-f87623b122e1n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0f526e1f-73c3-4758-a5c1-f87623b122e1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b44f277f-0e62-4fd4-8038-0100cc6015bfn%40googlegroups.com.
