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How to Break a Masterlock U-Lock bicycle lock

Many bicycle U-locks that descend upon with a round cylinder type key can easily be unlocked with a common pen. UPDATE NOTE: After posting this video ...

Cutting off a U-Lock from a Bike Rack

Hydrapak Wage-earner, Jim Vernon has to cut his U-Lock after a key breaks. Watch the process of getting his bike free.

Bike thefts remain number one campus crime

Bike exciting was the number one reported crime on campus last year, with a total of 329 bikes reported stolen, according to the Stanford Be sure to Public Safety 's (SDPS) annual report Stanford in a safe place out the month last.

The number represents a modest run of steam from the 375 reported bike thefts in 2009 and 353 in 2008. The refusal of bicycle thefts reported is a "good sign," the coordinator of the Stanford Ariane Scott bikes.

GSU police promote U-locks

This semester, the Georgia Southern University enforce department has been promoting a bicycle lock awareness program.

Capt. Terry Briley and Sgt. Christopher McBride, along with other officers, are stopping students who use U-locks for their bicycles and productive them with Chik-fil-A coupons.

Don't stop with a U-lock: bike theft on campus

Earlier this week, I woke up and discovered that someone had tried to creep my bike.

The quarter-inch steel cable I use to attach my front wheel to my U-lock had been cut almost in half. Luckily, the measures I had put in set out since freshman year, when my bike was actually stolen, prevented the thief from making off with it. But the consequence still left a sour taste in my mouth. I am not alone in this either.