Originally Posted by
squeakywheel
I dropped my kid off at college last weekend. Saw a shiny new expensive road bike at the dorm locked with a half inch twisted wire cable. You could defeat that lock with a pocket knife.
I'm curious: have you ever actually done so? Because, y'know, there are a lot of assertions about how you can defeat this or that lock in five seconds with a hairpin and a can of dust-off (or whatever), and I know a lot of people hear these assertions and pass them on as gospel, but I have yet to meet anyone who's actually done it and knows this from first-hand experience. Anyone here ever actually cracked a bike lock?