The Skylock (bike lock "on steroids")

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LockH

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Ummm.. Started out in Victoria BC Canada, then sta
http://skylock.cc/

We owe Cali folks sooo much! (One of my favs Hobie Alter and his beach catamaran sailboat.)
 
Hehe... Always hope for the best (but plan for the worst). The Law of the Bicycle: All bicycles weight 50lbs. (A forty pound bike? Add a ten pound lock. A thirty pound bike, add a 20lb lock. A 20lb bike a 30lb lock...
:mrgreen:
 
:lol: Im going to see if i can get one for tests-carjack- hacksaw-battery powered cutter etc. what if the hackers are on it?
 
Uuuuph... "antigravity lock"? Can only figure what campers/climbers use to rope stuff "aloft"?

And Beasty Man, have already emailed one Ottawa ebike seller to ask if he's interested in trying one (and can reimburse him if extra one shows up at my door in Toronto). But (shudder) test to destruction w/cutters, etc? (More shudder)

But if ya do happen to get two, please let me know! Guess is, developer/seller has already sawed/tried cutting it in development stages.
 
I alwayz carry my Gloch42 with me and i have a Ardunio alarm system installed on my ebike.
So when thieve tries to fiddle with my ebike my car-horn will go nuts and i will run as fast i can to my ebike.
This should make any thieve to run in most of the cases.
 
Hehe... You American guyz. I have fired off lots of stuff. .22, .357 (and Magnum), .45. (See also Sten gun.) Killed lots (of birds. Dang foreign import Starlings). Did pick up a handy-dandy war-surplus machete recently (as weed-infested property cleaner-upper), but my cane? The Irish in me prefers the shillelagh (tree root w/sprout "cane") as "up close and personal". (Can't trust lead bullets to not ricochet/hit/harm the innocent.) But being a coward, prefer to let "the Fuzz" track down/deal with parents "misfortunes"/children. Hence funky GPS tracker. On theory better to catch the dumb, rather than worry about property damage/theft by others. PS. Could also hit goal posts at length of a (Cdn.) football field w/rock the size of a potato. Using a sling. Now back to original programming re GPS trackers please?
 
HeHe... Magnum... no recoil ?
A wise man told me "thread other like you want be threaten" so i stopped shooting animals.
GPS tracker seems to be a smarter and cheaper alternative. But as soon your ebike is gone there is chance he finds this device and disables it.
Sling is effective but can backfire like the old wise man told me.
 
HA HA (re sling video. Also can add to my list 12 gauge and 10 gauge shotguns. Clay "pigeons".) So, anybuddy else on ES w/bikes "GPS enabled"?
 
LockH said:
So, anybuddy else on ES w/bikes "GPS enabled"?
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NOBUDDY??? Amazing (and a bit disturbing maybe.)
 
Yup a simple $10 used car jack and most locks are cracked. Add some $10 rebar cutters and some scrap metal and a welder (rented for $15/hr) or for free if you know someone who has one and the the rest of the locks are cracked in just a few pumps. Maybe 1 minute tops. No need for a noisy grinder with cut off wheels doing 2 cuts lasting 2 to 3 minutes to open a Kryptonite "NYC ForgetAboutIt" lock. The thief wouldnt even have to move the bike, not setting off the alarm. By the time the alarm is set off and you are notified to get your baseball bat to do some batting practice, that crack head is already around the corner and gone. Luck of the draw for you is the drug user leaves the signals free to transmit its location. Unlucky to you, lucky to the thief is its stored in a parkade a few levels down and is stripped.

Probably a good idea to get an alarm integrated into the lock. When its moved the alarm goes off. Also having an integrated wire into the U bar so when cut, alarm sounds.
 
I bet a high C rate RC hobby battery and a carbon-arc cutting electrode could plasma cut through the shackle in sub 5seconds with minimal noise.

All locks can only keep an honest man honest. That one does look to be exceptionally handy at that task though.
 
Silicon Carbide cut off wheel and an electric die grinder = nothing safe anymore :mrgreen:
 
bigmoose said:
Silicon Carbide cut off wheel and an electric die grinder = nothing safe anymore :mrgreen:
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liveforphysics said:
I bet a high C rate RC hobby battery and a carbon-arc cutting electrode could plasma cut through the shackle in sub 5seconds with minimal noise.

All locks can only keep an honest man honest. That one does look to be exceptionally handy at that task though.
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http://www.amazon.com/Steel-Water-Hardening-Drill-Length/dp/B000I25ADW

Hardened tool steel blanks are cheap to test on.

I'm down for a contest on who can get through the drill blank the fastest with handheld easily human carried tools. I have an idea leveraging a V of carbon rods, and couple 100C hobby packs, and paintball tank and regulator. I bet I can sever it In a single second with only a mild whoosh noise (and a LOT of light).

Your SiC wheel approach done with a potent RC motor with a water squeeze bottle high flow cooling rig and a good fixture system to allow strong cut pressure may also be in the sub second range though, and not as likely to look like lightning struck.

Security is a misnomer, as even if you find a place to hoard stuff nobody else can find or access, you and your clutter equally crumble to dust, just less appreciated before hand.
 
Thats what I was alluding to in another thread on the same subject matter.
RC motor at very high RPM, whatever the max is for the wheel.
Get two of the going to do a scissor effect. Halves the time.

I thought there was some sort of detonator cord that can cut through rebar as well. Might be expensive or hard to buy.

Bike Mine would sounds more like gun fire.
 
markz said:
Thats what I was alluding to in another thread on the same subject matter.
RC motor at very high RPM, whatever the max is for the wheel.
Get two of the going to do a scissor effect. Halves the time.

I thought there was some sort of detonator cord that can cut through rebar as well. Might be expensive or hard to buy.

Bike Mine would sounds more like gun fire.
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PETN cord would do it with enough wraps, but it's nothing like the light saber the movies make it to be, it's incredibly loud, and it would be more likely to damage the fragile bike over the hardened lock shackle.

A pair of SiC wheels like you suggested at just below burst speed aligned so they could just be pushed into the shackle with a water bottle soaking the cut could be very fast.

I also doubt it would be too tricky to simply make a very burly hardened tool steel pinch cutter head actuated by a fine thread jack screw that gets spun by a powerful cordless drill.
 
Change of name:
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(Was Skylock, now Ellipse.)
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