>> As a side story, nobody batted an eye at me cutting my lock
>> with an angle grinder on campus or on state street.
> I've seen videos where they tested just that on NYC streets -
> same response, or lack thereof.
=v= The NYC video (by Casey Neistat, maker of great videos) is
a hoot. As I
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Robert Schultz via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
> As a side story, nobody batted an eye at me cutting my lock with an angle
> grinder on campus or on state street. Had anyone been curious I could have
> pulled out my store receipts listing my serial
I agree that somebody who is going to shell out $100+ on a bike lock is
unlikely to abandon their bike, but I've had a string of rotten luck with
my own U-locks where I needed to cut them legitimately.
My first U-lock was second-hand when a close friend moved to the coast. I
had been using a
IANAL, but I suspect that the owner of such a lock faces substantial
liability if a government worker is injured removing such a lock, and that
will be enough to keep this from coming to market and will see it soon
pulled from the market even if it does. Then there is the issue of leakage
as the
Yeah, I could see that.
In the videos and photos, it looks like the lock is well labeled as a
SkunkLock, but I don't know if that is just for advertising purposes or if
a thief -- or city/campus official -- could actually tell a SkunkLock from
a normal U-lock. A bit of warning would be useful for
Probably not deliberately. But you’d be shocked by the number of calls I get
from students who have lost their key, or left the bike/lock out in the weather
so long that the key broke off in the lock when they finally went to use it.
and those are just the people who bother to call us…
chuck
I just have a feeling that someone who spends this much effort, thought and
money on their bike lock won't abandon their bike. But maybe I'm wrong.
Robbie Webber
Transportation geek
All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
organization with which I am affiliated.
Or a campus where all the racks are full of abandoned bikes….
Chuck Strawser
Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner
Commuter Solutions
UW-Madison Transportation Services
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email is
