Originally Posted by
crawdaddio
For someone who knows how, it can take as little as 30 seconds, and as long as ten minutes to find the right combo. As and added deficit to this style of lock, it simply looks like the thief is the owner of the bike fumbling with the combo as he determines the right combination. Combination locks should only be used as your only lock if you are in an area that poses a very LOW RISK of theft.
Ok - how do they do this? I don't mean step-by-step instructions, but it's just never made sense to me - seems like 4 digits be enough possible combinations to take far more time to figure out the combination than it would to break the lock? Or is there something else to it?
It's also a giant PITA that Kryptonite won't see same-keyed locks. According to them, the only locks they might do that for are the super expensive, super heavy ones. If I leave 2 locks at work, 2 locks at home, and carry 2 locks with me, that's 6 different keys. :-(