Originally Posted by
omgzilla
I tried the bic pen method on my Kryptonite Evolution 4 and I cant even remotely come close to getting a pen in the key way, its way too narrower (only slight bigger around than the key).
Looking at the tumbler design I'd be surprised if some one could pick it in the streets in under 5 mins even with lots practice. The pins appear to be on the top and bottom of the cylinder and the tension wrench would need to be inserted the full length of the key way due to the fact that each of the tumblers seems to be separate piece.
Add to the fact that I generally lock my bike to crowded bike racks with the top of the lock facing down and in, they wouldn't have any easy time getting a good angle to pick the lock in the first place.
//of course my mechanical break down of the internals could be completely wrong being that I didnt feel like cracking it open to examine how it worked and just examined it externally.
Why would you think that someone couldn't pick a keyed lock in the street in under 5 minutes ? The videos show these people doing it in under a minute and a video longer than a minute but less than 5 minutes, they were narrating the video while they were picking that lock. The locks that get picked by a bic pen, those videos indicate that a theft in the street or elsewhere is just as quick as if one had the actual key for it. Even if it took them 5 minutes, just yesterday, I locked my bike up on a rack and was gone for 20-30 minutes in an Apple computer store. And just from observation, the area had high pedestrian traffic, Nobody there long enough to care about whether anyone was locking their bike up or picking a lock. Just trying to get my bike in and out of the rack area was a chore, I had no problem rotating the lock to get a better angle on it and that was with the key.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2TGNbLDMg