Originally Posted by
staehpj1
Something seemed really wrong about that and it didn't right away click why. Anyway I decided to dig out my old master cable lock and tinker with "cracking the combo". I then realized why the 10,000 possible combinations is WAY off. There are only digits from 1-6 on each ring, so that comes out to something way less than 10,000. My math is pretty rusty, but I think it is a matter of taking the number 6666 and converting it from base 7 to base 10. That gives 2400 possible combinations if I am not mistaken.
6 x 6 x 6 x 6 = 1296 .....and Mev for the win as I typed my reply!
Why aren't the 'lock' parts of bike locks 'better'? In the real world, they aren't picked or decoded - they're physically compromised by cutting, prying, jacking, etc.