For no reason what so ever, my kryptonite lock jammed, the key wouldn’t fit in the key slot. I was super mad; I would never have imagined it happening. Emailed kryptonite, they told me to call a locksmith (yeah right like a locksmith would open one of these locks). After 2 month, I got faculties management on our apartment to cut it open (these things come of super easy with the right tool.

Happy to get my bike back, got a new lock…. BUT IT HAPPEND AGAIN!!!!
But it’s really cold here now, the first time it happened it was during the summer, I don’t know if that has anything not do with it, but I’m so mad at kryptonite now! My 300$ bike is locked to a bike rack again!

Oops. Just noticed that I got a trackback from John about that same story.

Turns out if you have a gun cabinet with this sort of lock it may also be vulnerable. Looks like it might be worth it to try this on any locks you happen to have that are similar.

Uh shit….
Grabbed a Bic pen, tried it on a friends 2 bikes. pen too narrow, Used the end of a dryboard marker pen… Just Right! Pushed in and turned.. nadda.. eased off a bit, wiggled, kept at it for 20 second.. POP!! Then spent another 3 minutes getting the damn thing closed, Cause of course the key WONT FIT NOW..
Fairly new cheap CANADIAN TIRE (in Canada) Supercycle brand..
Tried on OLDER, rusty off brand.. 10 minutes, no luck..
SO…….. Rusty old off brand U locks better..

Funny this is just hitting the news bigtime now…When I heard about it originally a few months ago, it was certain brands of laptop locks that people were worried about.

I mostly lock my bike up in safe and public places,

Whereabouts do you live?  I’ve been meaning to get a new mountain bike. 

Seriously, with the proliferation of this information you might want to pick up a secondary lock until the company gets it act together.

It also happens to be the only bike lock I own, and I use my bike nearly every single day.  I mostly lock my bike up in safe and public places, and I am going to wait for the company’s response before doing any new lock purchases.

Not to speak for Paul, but the company is likely to offer some form of re-coring the locks once they come up with a better design, possibly at little to no cost. They have a rep they wish to maintain and these locks are very good other than this one major flaw. Very tough to cut off or break otherwise. Not sure if the company will honor the request if the lock appears to have been jammed open though.

Uh, dumb question time….but Paul, why would you want to use the lock again? I’d be tossing it and finding a new way to lock up my bike.

I posted an entry about this on my blog as well, and that is exactly what I did with my spare key to make the lock useable again.  Thanks for the idea though.