Originally Posted by st. nicks
New York bike thiefs certainly will find a way to get through anything. I had my bike, a cheap (but beloved) beat-up steel frame road bike, locked up on 125th and Park Ave. with a krypto quad chain and an American lock. The police told me that filing a report was useless because I didn't have insurance. But then I bought an IRO Jamie roy, and I couldn't be happier with it.
after digging through
www.americanlocks.com it seems to me that pretty much all their key locks just use a standard 5 pin...
hate to piss on people's parades here but this is the easiest lock to pick, takes seconds, and just looks like someone having to jiggle their key if you're walking by...
at the club i used to work at one of our favorite past-times was to unlock people's bikes and move them to different places on the racks... no one around us ever said anything, and i don't think anyone even noticed while we were doing it...